Arsalan Iftikhar

Who is Arsalan Iftikhar?

Arsalan Iftikhar is an American international human rights lawyer, global media commentator and author of the book Islamic Pacifism: Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era. Arsalan is the founder of TheMuslimGuy.com and also a regular weekly commentator for the National Public Radio show "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin. He is also an adjunct professor of religious studies at DePaul University in Chicago and a member of the Asian American Journalists Association.

In May 2011, Arsalan was named one of the top 12 Muslim Twitter accounts in the world by The Huffington Post, and he was also a featured interview for a December 2012 ABC News documentary called "Back to the Beginning" by Christiane Amanpour, on the shared origins of the major world religions today.