Nihad Awad
Nihad Awad ( Arabic نهاد عوض, DMG Nihād ʿAwaḍ ; * 1964 in Amman New Camp , a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman , Jordan ) is a figure of Islam and a politician in the United States . He is the National Executive Director and co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the United States.
He studied civil engineering at the University of Minnesota and then worked at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.
He was one of the 138 signatories of the open letter a common word between us and you ( english A Common Word Between Us and You ), the personalities of Islam to "leaders of Christian churches everywhere" (Engl. "Leaders of Christian Churches, everywhere ..." ) (October 13, 2007). He also signed the " Open Letter to Baghdadi" .
In 2009 he was included in the list of the 500 Most Influential Muslims by the Prince al-Walid-bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center of Jordan .
Web links
- Official website
- berkleycenter.georgetown.edu: Nihad Awad (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University in Washington, DC )
- all4palestine.com: Nihad Awad ( Talal-Abu-Ghazaleh-Organization )
References and footnotes
- ↑ acommonword.com: A common word between us and you (summarized short form) (PDF; 186 kB)
- ↑ yale.edu (PDF; 4.8 MB)
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| SURNAME | Awad, Nihad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-Palestinian National Executive Director and co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the United States of America |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amman New Camp |