Dr. Qanta Ahmed on Unleashed with Marc Morano - 23 May 2024

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GUEST OVERVIEW: Dr. Ahmed is a physician, author and broadcast media commentator. Her first book, In the Land of Invisible Women details her experience of living and working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and has been published internationally in 14 countries.

She is also a prolific opinion journalist and contributor to the American, British, Australian, Pakistani and Israeli media. Her articles, columns and opinions have been published in over sixteen news outlets including The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Spectator, Al Jazeera , The Independent, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, The Daily Caller, Newsday, The Telegraph, The Daily Beast, the World Policy Journal, Fox News Opinion, CNN Opinion, Pakistan’s The Daily Times, Pakistan’s The Express Tribune, Kuwait’s Gulf News, and many others.In Israel she publishes in The Times of Israel, Ha’aretz and The Jerusalem Post. She regularly provides political commentary focusing on Islam, Radical Islam, Islamism and terrorism on radio and television on many networks including CNN, BBC World, Voice of America, NPR, CNN, Fox and Fox Business. In 2010 she became the first physician, and first Muslim woman to be awarded the Templeton-Cambridge Fellowship in Journalism at the University of Cambridge, England where she completed her treatise on the Psychological Manipulation of Islam in the Service of Terror, focusing on Islamist suicide bombing. As a result, she traveled to Pakistan’s Swat Valley to meet rehabilitated child jihadists, formerly operatives of the Pakistan Taliban. Her recognized expertise lead to her testimony to US Congress in June 2012, called by the Homeland Security Committee as a witness for hearings on Radical Islam in the United States. She subsequently has provided Congressional Briefings at the invitation of Congressional Staff on the issues of Palestinian child radicalization in the Disputed Territories in 2014.