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[5/6/13] Dr. Ahmad's paper on "Islamic Rules of Order:
The Link Between Classical and Contemporary Approaches to Good Governance" for the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on Good Governance in Islam: Classical and Contemporary Approaches and his notes on the ensuing discussion is available on our blog.
[5/3/13] At the request of Prof. Moqtedar Khan, our report on his presentation to the International Institute of Islamic Thought's 2012 Summer Scholar's Institute has been replaced with a reprint of his Huffington Post article "Justice Is Not Enough" on our blog.
[4/25/13] Minaret of Freedom Institute president Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad was interviewed by WCUT's Caravan radio program on the Boston bombing.
[4/18/13] The activity page has been updated to announce that Minaret of Freedom Institute president Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad will speak to the American University Rationalists and Atheists on "Rationality and Theism" in the Battelle atrium in the Battelle building on AU campus in Washington DC beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 19.
[4/18/13] Dr. Ahmad was interviewed by Mohsin Bayat of usviews.com on Iran, Syria and John Kerry.
[4/18/13] Our activity page has been updated to include events through March 2013 and we added a link to our 2011 archived activities.
[4/10/13] Our news and analysis for 4/10/13 included a link to an AP story on the abc News website which has since been replaced with a completely different story. We have replace the link to a Yahoo site wioth the original story: Whatever your opinion on the morality of drone strikes may be, it's hard to argue their effectiveness against the man who was reported to have been killed by one:"Al-Qaida's No. 2 in Yemen Slams US Drone Strikes" (AP / Yahoo)
[4/2/13] Alphecca Muttardy describes findings the new report on "Women in the American Mosque" and call for sisters to press mosques to develop a strategic action plan to promote the participation of women in an MFI guest blog.
[3/24/13] The Peace Quest newsletter has a write-up on Dr. Ahmad's presentation on "Peace in Palestine: What Needs to Be Done" that was given at a Peace Quest forum in Washington, DC.
[3/18/13] Dr. Ahmad's paper on "Sociological, Philosophical, and Legal Considerations
of Shariah as the Rule of Law in Islam” delivered at the Islamabad meeting of the Istanbul Liberty Network on "Islam and the Institutions of Civil Society" is now available on our website.
[3/14/13] Dr. Ahmad joins Rob Sachs, host of the Voice of Russia American Edition, Brendan Cole, host of the Voice of Russia UK Edition, Julien Barnes-Dacey, senior policy fellow in the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Mikhail Roschin, senior research fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences for a panel discussion on the "Syrian conflict's second anniversary, arming rebels still splinters world players" on Voice of Russia radio.
[3/12/13] The sixth and seventh in Dr. Ahmad's series of notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on Good Governance in Islam: Classical and Contemporary Approaches summarizes the presentation and discussion of Dr. Abdallah Al Arian on “Re-engaging the State: The Muslim Brotherhood, the Sadat Regime, and the Quest for Islamic Government in 1970s Egypt" and Prof. Kenneth Honerkamp on "Good Governance in Islam in the Light of Takhalluq Bi Asmaa Allah Al Husna: A Classical Approach to Human Rights and Governance" on our blog.
[3/11/13] Dr. Ahmad argues that "Holder's Answer to Rand Paul Is Not Good Enough" on our blog.

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