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MFI Personnel
Officers and Board of Directors
 Imad-ad-Dean
Ahmad, Ph.D.
(President, director) is
an internationally known interdisciplinary scientist, author of Signs
in the Heavens: A Muslim Astronomer's Perspective on Religion and
Science. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Maryland
where he teaches courses on religion and progress and on religion,
science and freedom. He also teaches a course on Islam, Science and
Development at Georgetown
University for the Center on Muslim-Christian Understanding.
Aly Ramadan Abuzaa`kouk
(Vice-President, director)
is Aly Ramadan Abuzaakouk was born and raised in Libya. He received a
Bachelor's degree from Cairo University in Journalism in 1968 and a
Master's degree in Communications from Stanford University in
1971. He also holds a Master's degree in Middle Eastern and
Islamic Studies from the University of Michigan. In 1973, he  established
the Department of
Communications at the University of Bengazi, Libya. In 1981, he
was a founding member of the National Front for the Salvation of Libya,
and served as its director of communications until 1987. From 1987 to
1998, he served as Director for Publications at Amanah Publishing
House, and later served as Executive Director of the American Muslim
Council. During this time, he served as Ambassador of Goodwill for the
U.S. State Department to several Arab and Muslim countries. In
addition to translating and transliterating the last three chapters of
the Qur'an, he has published numerous articles (in Arabic and English)
and has worked extensively with foreign and domestic media. In
2003, he co-founded the Libyan Human Development Forum to promote human
rights, democracy, and civil society in Libya. He is now director of
the Middle East and North Africa program at the Center for the study of
Islam and Democracy.
S harmin
Ahmad (Secretary,
director) was born and raised in Bangladesh and immigrated to the
United States in 1984. She earned a masters degree in
women's studies from GWU. She received the "woman of
distinction
award" from the Soroptimist International, one of the world's largest
professional women's organizations, for "outstanding contributions in
the field of international goodwill and understanding." Sharmin
has served on steering of Women in Development and
Samhati to help destitute women. She has organized numerous
workshops on women's rights and human rights a spoken at various
institutes and on numerous television and radio talk shows. She
participated in the Fourth World Conference on Women in China and in
the
First International Nongovernmental Organization Conference in Iran.
Her children's book The
Rainbow in a Heart has
been approved for use in the Montgomery County Public Schools' English
Language Art Curricullum.
Shahid N. Shah (Treasurer,
director)
is a co-founder of the Minaret of Freedom Institute. He has been a
thought leader, Islamic political evangelist,  and
influential memberof
the Muslim community in America for more than 15 years. He is the
founder of ISL
Software Corporation
and Chief Architect of The Alim
Islamic Knowledge Platform, the world's most popular English-based
Islamic software which is a staple in homes of hundreds of thousands of
Muslims worldwide. He is also the Founder & CEO of Netspective
Communications LLC, a software development firm that
provides the tools and skills necessary for enabling mission- and
safety-critical enterprise software. He serves as a director on several
corporate and non-profit boards and as the Chairman of the IEEE
Computer Society's
Northern Virginia
Chapter
Antony T. Sullivan (director)
is an
internationally recognized senior
scholar who holds an honorary
position as Associate at
the Center for Middle Eastern and North
African Studies at the is University of
Michigan. He is the author of or
contributor to five books and some 100 journal articles and academic
reviews focusing on the Arab and Muslim world. Dr. Sullivan has played
a major role in bringing together moderate Muslim intellectuals and
their appropriate Western counterparts to address contemporary
challenges that are common to both the West and the Islamic
world. Currently, he is a Senior Fellow, Mediterranean and Near
East Programs at the Fund for American Studies in Washington, D.C., and
serves as Director of Faculty at the International Institute for
Political and Economic Studies (Greece) that the Fund operates in
conjunction with Georgetown University.
 Omar Altalib,
Ph.D. (director) obtained
his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago, specializing in
education and the family. He served in Iraq as an Advisor to the
Iraqi
Ministry of Education in 2004 and is currently a Senior Knowledge
Engineer for Science Applications International. He is fluent in
English & Arabic and has engaged in research on endowments (waqf)
as a support system for private schools in the Middle East.
Board of Advisors
- Prof. Charles Butterworth is a leading
scholar of Islamic studies at the University of Maryland.
- Prof. Sulayman Nyang is a
distinguished
Muslim scholar of international affairs at the African Studies Center
of
Howard University.
- Imam Warith Deen Muhammad is an
outstanding American Muslim spiritual leader.
- Abdul Hafiz Shaikh is a federal
minister for privatization and investment the government of
Pakistan.
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