GLOBAL FORUM: Future of Islam and Muslim Communities during the presidency of President-elect Joe Biden

GLOBAL FORUM
“Future of Islam and Muslim Communities during the presidency of President-elect Joe Biden”

🗓 WEDNESDAY :: 18 November 2020
⏰ 8.30 PM (Malaysia), 7:30 PM (Jakarta), 7.30 AM (USA)

Panelist:

Muhammad Faisal Abdul Aziz (ABIM President)
Dr Ermin Sinanovic (Director, Center for Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW) Shenandoah University, USA)

Moderator: Dr. Mohd Faridh Hafez Mohd Omar, USIM, ABIM Exco.

SPEAKER PROFILE
Dr. Ermin Sinanović is executive director of the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW) at Shenandoah University, where he is also Scholar in Residence. Before joining CICW, he was director of research and academic programs at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He was also a faculty associate in research, Southeast Asian Program at Cornell University.

Sinanović studied for an Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. He obtained two bachelor’s degrees (one in the Qur’an and Sunnah studies, the other in political science) from the International Islamic University Malaysia, and a master’s degree (Islamic civilization) from the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.