About Arsalan Iftikhar

Arsalan Iftikhar serves as Contributing Editor for Islamica Magazine, an international contemporary affairs magazine headquartered in Los Angeles and with editorial offices in London, Amman and Cambridge, Massachusetts. His interviews and commentaries appear regularly in international media outlets such as CNN, BBC World Service, The TODAY Show, FOX News, Associated Press, MSNBC, C-SPAN, Al-Jazeera, NBC Nightly News, Washington Post, ABC World News Tonight, The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Newsweek magazine (among dozens others worldwide).

He is also a contracted freelance opinion writer with over 15 major daily newspapers including The Houston Chronicle, Detroit Free Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, Charlotte Observer, St. Louis-Post Dispatch, Kansas City Star, Miami Herald and many more. He was also a contributing author to Taking Back Islam (Rodale Press), winner of the 2003 Wilbur Communications Award for Religion Book of the Year.

He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1999 and received his law degree from Washington University School of Law in 2003. A native Chicagoan, he specializes in international human rights law and is licensed to practice law in Washington DC.

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