al-Husein N. Madhany

al-Husein N. Madhany - Islam Portal Manager

Al-Husein N. Madhany is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was most recently the Executive Vice President of the One Nation Foundation.

Al-Husein is a track two diplomat of the American Muslim community. He is adept at connecting and coordinating groups of like-minded Muslims, including both Sunni and Shia communities to their mutual benefits, and America's, by actively promoting social entrepreneurship and civic engagement.
With a BA from Wake Forest and graduate degrees from Harvard, Georgetown and the University of Chicago, al-Husein is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, a Senior Fellow at the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University and serves on the advisory board for the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University.

Since 2001, al-Husein has consulted domestically and internationally with the private and government sectors on counter-radicalization and counter-terrorism efforts. Previously, al-Husein taught at Georgetown University and worked as the Executive Director and Executive Editor of Islamica magazine.

Recent publications include "Understanding the Role of Islam in Counterterrorism Policy," published with Rashad Hussain by the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings and "Pooh-Poohing Pluralism: Ijtihading Hadith to Build a Theology of Exclusion," published in The Muslim World.