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A conversation about Iraq and Islamic fundamentalism
with Khaled Abou El Fadl on Oct 18, 2004
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with Khaled Abou El Fadl on Oct 18, 2004
Khaled Abou El Fadl is a professor of law at the UCLA School of Law where he teaches Islamic law, immigration, human rights, international and national security law. Abou El Fadl was trained in Islamic legal sciences in Egypt, Kuwait, and the United States. After law school, he clerked for Arizona Supreme Court Justice J. Moeller. While in graduate school, he also practiced immigration and investment law in the United States and the Middle East.
Abou El Fadl was appointed by President George W. Bush as a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and was named as a 2005 Carnegie Scholar in Islamic studies. He sat on the Board of Directors for Human Rights Watch and serves on the on the Advisory Board of Middle East Watch. Abou El Fadl’s books include ‘Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam’ (2001), ‘Rebellion in Islamic Law’ (2001) and ‘And God Knows the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourse’ (2nd ed. revised and expanded, 2001).
Source - Wikipedia, UCLA Law Faculty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_Abou_Al-Fadl http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=386
