Masai Ujiri: The Path to Becoming the First African NBA Executive
April 26, 2013 5 min. read

Masai Ujiri took an unconventional route to the pinnacle of National Basketball Association (NBA) team management. Now he is watching his Denver Nuggets’, a team he built in just three seasons as general manager, attempt to make a run at an NBA championship. Ujiri grew up in the central northern region of Nigeria, in the city of Zaria, a city that has […]

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The Counterintuitive Jihad
October 21, 2012 10 min. read

  Gone are the days when avoidance of religious and political discussions was essential to retaining friendships. Today discussing these two topics in the public and private squares is essential to peace, coexistence, development and progress! At hand is the most misunderstood and indeed most abused moral concept of the 21st century: the doctrine of […]

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Olivier Roy: Islam and the West, the Taliban, and Sharia in Pakistan
February 18, 2009 3 min. read

Olivier Roy. That’s right Olivier Roy was at UCSD’s Political Science Department today and I was able to sneak in and listen to his lecture and Q & A. Mr. Roy, a Frenchman, is one of the most distinguished Western scholars of Islam. He has studied and worked for the United Nations and French foreign […]

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