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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 of Palestinian descent, born at
sea and raised in the United States. He is
author of Signs in the Heavens: A Muslim
Astronomer's Perspective
on Religion and Science, a senior
lecturer at the University of Maryland and
he teaches a course on Islamic religion,
history and civilization at Wesley
Theological Seminary. He also teaches an
course on Islamic history and civilization
for the summer interns program at the
International Institute of Islamic Thought.
Dr. Ahmad has received the “Star Cup for
Outstanding Public Service” award from the
Montgomery County Civic Federation, the
“Champion of Democracy Award” from
Marylanders for Democracy, the “Samuel P.
Chase Freedom Award” from the Libertarian
Party of Maryland, and the “Sentinel Award”
from the Montgomery County Civic Federation.
Omar Alt alib, Ph.D. is an international author, speaker
and trainer, who was assistant professor in sociology at the
International Islamic University in
Malaysia until 2011 and served in Iraq as an adviser to the
Iraqi Ministry of Education in 2004. His
book Parent, Child Relations is
being published in English and translated into Arabic, Bosnian, Malay,
Farsi, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, and German.
Kevin Duewel,
(Secretary, director) is an
entrepreneur  and
founder of Duryan,
a start-up connecting investors abroad
with entrepreneurs in developing markets.
Through his work abroad, he advocates for
entrepreneurship and private investment as
the alternative to state development
projects and international aid. He studies
conflict studies and religion studies at
the Elliott School of International
Affairs at the George Washington
University. As a student activist, he
works with student groups in the Students
for Liberty network worldwide to
promote the principles of liberalism and
competitive markets. In 2010, Kevin was a
Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow at the
Minaret of Freedom Institute.
Shahid N. Shah, M.S.
(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.
Aly Ramadan
Abuzaa`kouk, Ph.D. (director) was born
and raised in Libya. He received a
Bachelor's degree from Cairo University in
Journalism and a Master's degree in
Communications from Stanford Universit. 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 Benghazi, 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. After ten years as Director for
Publications at amana Publications, he later
served as Executive Director of the American
Muslim Council and 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 also worked
as the Washington director of the Center for
the study of Islam and Democracy. He is now
the President of the Citizenship forum for
Human Development and Democracy
(Benghazi-Libya).
Prof. Antony T.
Sullivan, Ph.D. (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.
Board of Advisors
- Sharmin
Ahmad, M.A. is a Bangladeshi
writer on socio-political and Islamic
issues and an human rights activists
with a special interest women's rights
and author of The Rainbow in a Heart.
- Prof. Charles Butterworth, Ph.D.
is a leading scholar of Islamic studies
at the University of Maryland.
- Prof. Sulayman Nyang, Ph.D.
is a distinguished Muslim scholar of
international affairs at the African
Studies Center of Howard University.
- Abdul Hafiz Shaikh, Ph.D. is
a federal minister for privatization and
investment the government of
Pakistan.
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