HSPI hosts a discussion on:
“Policy Challenges in Engaging with Muslim Communities at Home and Abroad”

Featuring:

Geneive Abdo
Fellow
The Century Foundation &
Senior Fellow
Homeland Security Policy Institute

Moderated by:

Frank J. Cilluffo
Director
Homeland Security Policy Institute

Geneive Abdo discussed her essay “False Prophets,” in the current issue of Foreign Policy magazine. Ms. Abdo maintains in her essay that Washington falls back upon efforts at interfaith dialogue in the absence of “an effective foreign policy strategy for engaging Islamist leaders and Muslim societies in any meaningful way.” She also notes until the West forces itself “to deal with the most immediate crisis at hand—the devastating failure of U.S. foreign policy and an Islamic world that is growing more conservative, religious, and hostile toward the United States with each passing day—we will have done nothing to address the true conflict, one that remains threatening, enduring, and real.”

Geneive Abdo is the author of Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11 and No God but God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam, and the coauthor of Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First Century Iran. Before joining The Century Foundation, she was a liaison for the United Nation’s Alliance of Civilizations, a project created by the U.N. Secretary General to improve relations between Western and Islamic societies. Her twenty-year journalism career centered upon coverage of the Middle East and the Islamic world.


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