Accompanist: Martha Morgan
Time: Sunday Service, 28 February 2010, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

With all of the negative media attention given Islam in America, it’d be easy to believe every Muslim living in the US was a radical bent on bringing the country to its knees. Learn what it is means to be a Muslim and live in the greatest nation in the world in an era when fear and paranoia rule the landscape of our time.

Speaker’s Bio: Dr. Parvez Ahmed is Associate Professor of Finance at the Coggin College of Business at the University of North Florida. Prior to joining UNF he taught at Penn State University — Harrisburg and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he also served as the founding Faculty Advisor for the Student Managed Investment Fund. At PSU he was also the Associate Director of the Giant Food Center for Economic Development. His research work has appeared in several major finance journals and he is also a published author in financial subjects. Additionally, Dr. Ahmed writes editorials about Islam and the American Muslim experience, which have been published in several leading newspapers, Internet magazines and blogs. (Find more online at: http://drparvezahmed.blogspot.com/.) Dr. Ahmed also teaches a special 10-week course titled, “Islam-the faith, the people and their politics,” at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in UNF. Dr. Ahmed served as an at-large board member for the American Civil Liberties Union in Florida. He was also Chairman of the Council on American Islamic Relations. Currently he serves as a board member for OneJax, formerly the National Conference on Christians and Hews. He has led student study programs to London, Paris and is currently working on developing programs to take American students to the Middle East.