American Muslims in the Public Policy Space

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Given the current dearth of American Muslims and other minorities in policy spaces, AMI & Georgetown MSA organized a panel of American Muslims involved in the think tank space.   The panel’s aim was to provide insight into the role in which graduate Muslim students can play in influencing domestic and international policies. The panelists shared their own […]

High School Advertising Contest

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AMI sponsored an essay contest asking American Muslim high school students to write an essay of no more than three hundred words on how to empower American Muslim youth in the field of media, journalism, advertising and/or activism. The top seven essays won a half day trip tour of different media and advertising institutions, including […]

Women in Islam: A Brief History

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AMI Board member Dr. Sahar Khamis, Sr. Laila Muhammad and Imam Carlos Muhammad discussed the crucial role Muslim women played in history, recent and distant.  Dr. Khamis spoke of the importance of overcoming and shattering stereotypes as a Muslim women reflecting on her own career and experience. Imam Carlos and Sr. Laila both spoke of […]