2002- 

Associate Editor/Research Assistant, Renaissance monthly Islamic journal of Danish Sara.  Responsibilities include copy-editing, research and writing. 

2002-

Under the tutelage of Sajid Hameed, Talib Mohsin, Mohammad Rafi Mufti, Sami Mufti, Shehzad Saleem, Semina Begum for studying Islam, Islamic Disciplines, Arabic language/literature and Persian.  In addition, under the guidance of Javed Ahmed Ghamidi regarding study of Islam.

2002            
 

Intensive study of Arabic nahw (grammar) and sarf (morphology) under the tutelage of Sheikh Sa’ad Al-Algeree, Damascus, Syria

2002

Arabic certificate course at Damascus University, College of Literature, Damascus, Syria. 

2002

Published chapter with Dr. Rueben Warren entitled “The Social Context of Faith and Health” in Jay Chunn’s The Health Behavioral Change Imperative: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions (December 2002).

2001-03

Masters of Liberal Studies in International Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.  Thesis on examining Abu A’la Mawdudi, and Islamic militancy, through the philosophy of Frantz Fanon.

2001

Study of Ulum al-Qur’an under Dr. Taha Jabir Al-Alwani, Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, Herndon, Virginia (USA)

2000

Presented paper entitled “The Myth of a Universal Islamic Culture: Problematic Elements of Religious/Cultural Overlap” at Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) Conference, Washington, DC

2000

Ten week intensive Arabic at Arabic Language Institute (ALIF), Fes, Morocco

2000

Bachelor of Arts, Religion and Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (USA)

2000

Research Assistant on Islamic Family Law Project (Emory Law and Religion Program), sponsored by Ford Foundation.

1998-00

Associate Editor/Staff Writer, The Fire This Time Magazine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (USA)

1998-00

Editorial Columnist, The Emory Wheel Newspaper, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (USA)

1996

High School Diploma (US), Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire (USA)

1994

General Certificate of Secondary School Education (UK Southern Oxford Group), Bishop Mackenzie International School, Lilongwe, Malawi

1978

Born on April 24