October 13, 2009 / Philadelphia
S. Abdallah Schleifer, professor emeritus at American University of Cairo, was recently appointed to the Executive Board of C-1 World Engagement, a global initiative to improve relations between Muslims and the West. He is former Washington and national bureau chief of Al Arabiya news channel; former NBC News Cairo Bureau Chief; former visiting scholar at St. Antony’s College, Oxford; adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.; Senior Fellow at the Royal Aal Al Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Amman, Jordan and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy in Washington, D.C.