Hussein Rashid is a PhD candidate in Harvard University's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. His dissertation focuses on racial and ethnic self-identification in South Asian immigrant communities in the US. He has passed qualifying exams in Urdu Language and Literature, Indo-Muslim cultures, Islam in America, and Islamic Civilizations with a focus on Shi'i thought. He completed a Masters in Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School, which focused on comparative Muslim-Hindu theologies in South Asia. He earned is BA from Columbia College of Columbia University with majors in Biology and Middle Eastern and [South] Asian Languages and Cultures.
Hussein has worked in several positions that affect the South Asian and Muslim majority worlds. Starting in 1996 he aided President Lennart Mari of Estonia in trying to establish commercial relations between Estonia and India, Pakistan, and Iran. During 2003 he worked with the Harvard Islamic Legal Studies Program's Afghan Legal History Project to create position papers on the draft Afghan constitution. He also advised a 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate’s foreign policy team on the religious issues in Iraq. He then consulted for a South Asia PAC.
He currently teaches at Hofstra University and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
He has presented papers focused on the impact of 9/11 on Muslim adolescents throughout the US, and papers about Muslim blogs. In 2006 he was named one of the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow. His current research interests are on the representation of Muslims in graphic novels. He is an occasional speaker for the Interfaith Alliance, Faith in Public Life, and a teacher at Quest: A Center for Spiritual Inquiry at the Park Avenue Christian Church in New York City. He blogs at Islamicate, The Devil's Advocate, AltMuslimah, and Talk Islam. You can find out more about him at husseinrashid.com.
Hussein Rashid is a proud Muslim and native New Yorker. He blogs at Islamicate, The Devil's Advocate, AltMuslimah, and Talk Islam. You can find out more about him at husseinrashid.com.
Hussein Rashid is a proud Muslim and native New Yorker. He is currently a faculty member at Hofstra University and Associate Editor at Religion Dispatches. He is the convener of islamicate and a contributor to Talk Islam and AltMuslimah; his work has appeared at City of Brass, Goat Milk, and CNN.com. He has appeared on CBS Evening News, CNN, Russia Today, Channel 4 (UK), State of Belief - Air America Radio, and Iqra TV (Saudi Arabia).
He is also an instructor at Quest: A Center for Spiritual Inquiry at the Park Avenue Christian Church.
As a Nizari Ismaili Muslim, he believes his faith guides him to do good in this world, to leave the world in a better state than he found for his, and others', children.
