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United Muslims of America
(UMA)
25th Anniversary
With Dinner and Symposium
On
Bridging the Gap Between
The U. S. - The Muslim World
and the
Role of American Muslims
Saturday, April 29, 2006
5:30 P.M.
Chandni Restaurant
5478 Mowry School Road, Newark, CA 94560
Sponsors
Javed Khan , Abdus Salam Qureshi, Javed Ellahie, Mertze Dahlin, Zain Jeewanjee
United Central Bank
Bridging the Gap Between the U.S. – The Muslim World
and the Role of American Muslims
Program
5:30 P.M. Registration and Socialization
6:00 P.M. Recitation from Holy Quran
Welcoming Remarks
Shafi Refai
Faith Based Overview
Paul Chaffee
6:15 P.M. First Session
Status of Muslim World
Islam Siddiqui
American Muslims’ Perspective
Safaa Ibrahim
Suhail Khan
Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC)’s Perspective
Shahid Hussain
7:15 P.M. Dinner
8:00 P.M. Maghrib Prayers
8:20 P.M. Second Session
A Forrmer Congressman’s Perspective
Pete McCloskey
Role of American Muslims
Muqtedar Khan
. U.S. Government’s Perspective
Robert Tappan
. Q/A Session
9:45 P.M. Concluding Remarks
Iftekhar Hai
Closing Prayers
Rita Semel
America the Beautiful (Song)
10:00 P.M. End
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Brief Profiles of Speakers
(Listed in Alphabetical order by last name)
Rev. Paul Chaffee is the Executive Director of the Interfaith Center at Presidio, San Francisco. He spent 13 years growing up in Asia, the son of Presbyterian Missionaries. That experience provoked his own interfaith vocation, building bridges of respect and relationship between different spritualities and religions. In 1995, he became founding executive director of Interfaith Center at the Presidio. He is actively involved in the North American Interfaith Network, the United Religions Initiative, and the Parliament of the World Religions.
Mr. Syed Shahid Husain holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Public Administration from Columbia Pacific University, San Rafael, California. He also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Public and Social Administration from Oxford University,
Mr. Husain is currently a Consultant/Special Advisor Designate, Special Unit for South-South Cooperation., United Nations Development Program, United Nations Headquarters, New York. Prior to his current assignment Mr. Husain was a senior Adviser at Permanent Observer Mission of the Organization of Islamic Conference to the United Nations, New York.
Mr Husain has held a variety of career positions. He was an Administrative Officer, United Nations Technical Assistance Board, New York, Deputy Resident Representative, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Ghana West Africa and Beirut, Lebanon. He was also the Deputy Director, Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, UNDP, New York. And other similar assignments.
Mrs. Safaa Ibrahim was born in Cairo, Egypt and immigrated with her family as a child to U.S.A. in 1981. She holds a B.S. degree in International Business from Strayer University, Virginia.
Safaa’s professional background stems from software project management, operations, and marketing. The past three years, Safaa has been dedicated full time volunteering to the Bay Area Muslim Community. She has been active with the Council on American Islamic Relations, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (CAIR-SFBA), the Muslim Community Association (MCA), and GiveLight Foundation. Safaa has also served on the executive committee for CAIR-SFBA and was appointed as Executive Director of CAIR-SFBA in 2005.
Dr. Muqtedar Khan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is a Non-resident Fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in International Relations, Political Philosophy, and Islamic Political Thought from George Town University in May, 2000. Dr. Khan is also a senior scholar at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. He has been the President , Vice President , and General Secretary of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists.
Dr. Khan is currently the Editor-In-Chief of the Muslim Public Affairs Journal. He is the author of two books titled “American Muslims” (Amana, 2002) and “Jihad for Jerusalem” (Praeger, 2004). His two forthcoming books are titled “Beyond Jihad and Crusade” and “Islamic Democratic Discourse”.
Dr. Khan frequently comments on BBC, CNN, FOX, VOA TV, NPR and other radio and TV networks. His political commentaries appear regularly in newspapers in over 20 countries. He writes a regular Weblog called Globalog. His articles can be read on www.ijtihad.org and www.Glocaleye.org.
Mr. Suhail Khan was born in Boulder, Colorado, to parents who immigrated to Wyoming and Colorado from southern India. The oldest of five children, Suhail grew up in California and earned his B.A. in political science from University of California at Berkeleyin 1991 and his J.D. from University of Iowa in 1995.
Suhail served as Policy Director and Press Secretary for U.S. Congressman Tom Campbell (R-CA) where he worked closely on legislation relating to health antitrust reform, civil liberties, tort reform, the War Powers Act, racial and gender discrimination, and the 1998 impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives. After 2000 elections, he aided the White House Office of Public Liason in outreach efforts. He is currently serving as Associate Director for congressional affairs for Secretary Norman Mineta at the Department of Transportation where he was awarded the Secretary’s Team Award in 2005.
Mr. Pete McCloskey is a former Congressman and is a congressional candidate from District 11 in the upcoming June primaries. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1967 and was re-elected seven times representing the San Francisco Peninsula area. He served six years as Congressional Delegate to the International Whaling Conference. He was the Republican Co-Chairman of the first Earth Day in 1970.
Mr. McCloskey was appointed by President Bush to the Board of Directors of the U.S. Commission on National and Community Service in 1991, and served as the first Chairman of the Board. He has taught Legal Ethics and Political Science at both Stanford and Santa Clara Universities. He has also written four books.
As a Marine Second Lieutenant, he received the Navy Cross and Silver Star for heroism and two Purple Hearts for wounds received in action as a Marine Rifle Platoon Leader in the Korean War.
Dr. Islam Siddiqui is the founder and past president of UMA. Currently serving as Vice President, Science and Regulatory Affairs, for Crop Life America. Earlier, he served as Under Secretary of Agriculture under President Clinton, and spent 28 years in various positions with the California Department of Food and Agriculture including the Directorship of the of the Division of Plant Industry. He also worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture serving as Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs. During 1999-2000, he served as senior trade advisor to USDA Secretary Dan Glickman. During this time Dr. Siddiqui represented USDA in the Senior Level Dialogue on Biotechnology between the U.S. and European Union.
Dr. Siddiqui holds a Bachelor of Science degree from U.P. Agricultural University in India, and a Master of Science and a Doctorate degree from the University of Illinois.
Mr. Robert Tappan is the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State at the U.S. State Department. He brings nearly 20 years of public affairs and communication experience from the private sector to the U.S. Department of State. Mr. Tappan helps direct communication and public affairs activities for the Department and oversees the nearly 200 civil servant, political appointee, and Foreign Service professionals in the State Department’s Bureau of Public Affairs.
In 2004, Mr. Tappan served in Baghdad as Director of Strategic Communications for the Coalition Provincial Authority. For his services in Iraq, Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld awarded him the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Mr. Tappan is also the recipient of the Department of State’s Superior Honor Award.
During the mid-1980s, Mr. Tappan served as a staffer in the Editorial Department of The Washington Post. He has given numerous radio and television interviews, and has appeared on ABC’s Nightline, NBC’s Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.
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