Washington Post’s “On Faith” panel of experts to include Becket Fund’s International Legal Fellow

Dec 7, 2009

Asma Uddin, Becket Fund attorney, was named an “On Faith” permanent expert panelist for the Washington Post and Newsweek. Asma also sits on the Board of Directors for Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights, and is the editor-in-chief of altmuslimah.com. As an editor, Uddin has worked with Dr. Umar F. Abd-Allah on a number of articles for scholarly journals on Islamic Law. She also helped edit the entire manuscript of Dr. Abd-Allah’s A Muslim in Victorian America, which was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press. As Associate Editor and legal columnist for Islamica Magazine, Asma focused her writings on how American Muslims can rethink their social position within the American legal framework.

Uddin’s writing has also appeared in Muslim Girl Magazine, altmuslim, and beliefnet.  Her more scholarly work has been published in the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion and The Review of Faith & International Affairs. Asma, selected in 2009 as a “Muslim Leader of Tomorrow“ has traveled throughout Europe and to various Muslim countries to meet with Muslim and other minority groups as well as politicians, journalists, and anti-discrimination organizations.  Asma is a 2005 graduate of The University of Chicago Law School, where she was a member of The University of Chicago Law Review.

To read her recent op-ed on the Swiss minaret ban, visit: http://www.becketfund.org/index.php/article/1180.html .