Professor Khaled A. Beydoun is a law professor at Wayne State University, author and public intellectual. He also serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, and Associate Director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights in Detroit. Beydoun is the author of the critically acclaimed book American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear and co-editor of Islamophobia and the Law.
Beydoun’s academic work has been featured in top academic journals, including the UCLA Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, the California Law Review and the Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review. His insights have been featured in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the BBC and ESPN. Beydoun served on the US Commission for Civil Rights for 3 years and earned a coveted Open Society Foundations Equality Fellowship. He has been named one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims of the World.
Beydoun holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, UCLA, and Harvard.