Committed to empowering Chicago’s Muslim-American community, Ahmed Rehab is executive director of the city’s office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy group.

Rehab also serves as CAIR’s national strategic communications director, and has served on the board of the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Muslim task force and in many other leadership roles.

On Tuesday, Oct. 29, Rehab will present “Islam, Civic Responsibility and American Muslims,” this year’s al-Ghazali Lecture at Elmhurst University. The public lectures and other cultural programming at Elmhurst University support community engagement and lifelong learning, and prepare our students to thrive as adaptive leaders.

Rehab is the founding president of Amrex Consulting and Amrex Media, a trustee of Al Azhar Islamic Foundation and an adjunct professor at the American Islamic College in Chicago. Regarded as an expert on U.S. civil rights, media relations and Islam-West relations, he has given hundreds of public lectures and presentations on university campuses and public stages around the country. He also has been interviewed on local, national and global TV and cable news programs, as well as by national and international print media.

The al-Ghazali Lecture will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, in the Frick Center, Founders Lounge. Admission is free but reservations are encouraged, at elmhurst.edu/cultural.

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