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Professor Junaid S. Ahmad

Prof. Junaid S. Ahmad has a Juris Doctor (law) degree from the College of William and Mary, USA. He is the Director of the Center for the Study of Islam and Decolonization in Islamabad, Pakistan. He has been teaching Law, Religion, and Global Politics for over a decade in Pakistan, South Africa, Malaysia, Turkey, the UK, and the USA. He does a wide array of consultancy on issues related to international law and international affairs. Junaid is also the founder and Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) - Pakistan. Over the years, he has been associated with the International Movement for a Just World (JUST), the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA), Al-Awda (The Palestine Right to Return Coalition), along with various interfaith initiatives and groups working for peace and justice - including Peace for Life (PFL) and the US-Pakistan Interreligious Coalition (UPIC). Most recently, he co-founded JUST-IS, a global network advancing interfaith solidarity against militarism, and is also a part of the Palestine solidarity group, Movement for Liberation from Nakba (MLN). He served as president of the US-based National Muslim Law Students Association (NMLSA), and is a member of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), the American Sociological Association (ASA), the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS), the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML), the South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA), and the American Council of the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS). His research interests include US foreign policy, the Middle East and South Asia, global geopolitics, international law, globalization, and critical issues in the contemporary Muslim World.

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