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Arsalan Iftikhar
Arsalan Iftikhar
Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer, senior research fellow for The Bridge Initiative at Georgetown University and a senior editor for TIM Media.
ARTICLES BY ARSALAN IFTIKHAR
Dear Don Lemon: Thanks for Making Me Famous
Apparently, we currently live in a “post-racial” America where a prominent national television news anchor c
Arsalan Iftikhar
| January 12th, 2015
Letās Call ISIS āThe Un-Islamic Stateā
Dear ISIS & Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, You are not “The Islamic State.” There is nothing Islamic about behead
Arsalan Iftikhar
| August 20th, 2014
My State Department Trip to Central Asia
The early 20th-century Yale geography professor Ellsworth Huntington once said that all of the “evidence points to
Arsalan Iftikhar
| March 17th, 2014
Meet State Departmentās New Head of Religious Outreach
On July 15, 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry appointed Shaun Casey to become the Special Advisor to the Secretary of
Arsalan Iftikhar
| December 14th, 2013
The LAX Airport Shooter is a Terrorist
Can you imagine for a moment that you woke up one morning to hear the news of one of our nation’s largest internat
Arsalan Iftikhar
| November 2nd, 2013
The Man Who Took John McCain into Syria
Even though I had known about his work for some time, the first time I met Mouaz Moustafa in person was a few months ago
Arsalan Iftikhar
| September 26th, 2013
INTERVIEW: Reza Aslan on Jesus, Islam, and Fox News
Shortly after releasing his new book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, award-winning author Reza Aslan jo
Arsalan Iftikhar
| August 1st, 2013
A Muslim’s Prayer for the Boston Marathon
First of all, it really does not matter who was behind the multiple explosions at the Boston Marathon. This is because m
Arsalan Iftikhar
| April 15th, 2013
Top 5 Reasons Why People Draw Cartoons of Prophet Muhammad
During the 2005 Danish cartoon controversy, I remember meeting with the Norwegian and Danish ambassadors to the United S
Arsalan Iftikhar
| March 12th, 2013
Muslims 2012: The Most Radioactive Bloc in America
One day during the 2004 presidential election, I was sitting in the office of (the late) Democratic congresswoman from O
Arsalan Iftikhar
| June 18th, 2012