Bio of Abdulwahab Alkebsi
Abdulwahab Alkebsi (alkebsi@islam-democracy.org) served in 2002 as Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID), a non-profit think tank, based in Washington DC, dedicated to studying Islamic and democratic political thought and merging them into a modern Islamic democratic discourse.
Prior to
his appointment at CSID, Mr. Alkebsi served as Executive Director of the Islamic
Institute and as Deputy Director of the American Muslim Council (AMC). He
developed AMC’s Legislative Agenda, and AMC’s policy position on the Faith-based
Initiative. Prior to that, Mr. Alkebsi was the Executive Director of the
American Muslim Association for Democracy. Mr. Alkebsi also co-established and
served as Deputy Director at the American Task Force for Bosnia in 1994.
Mr. Alkebsi
has lectured at universities and seminars in cities around the United States and
the Middle East. His contributions have been published by the Brookings
Institution, the American Assembly, Hamline University School of Law, and
others.
Mr. Alkebsi
has had several appearances on American, European and Middle Eastern media. He
has been interviewed or quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The
Washington Post, The Washington Times, U.S. News & World Report,
United Press International, PBS, CNN, CNBC, BBC, Al-Jazeera, MBC, Abu
Dhabi TV, ANA, Nile TV, and many others.
Mr. Alkebsi
was born in Yemen, and resides in Potomac, Maryland with his wife and three
daughters.
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