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Lawrence Pintak is an award-winning journalist and scholar who has reported from four continents. He is dean of the Graduate School of Media and Communications at Aga Khan University and was previously the founding dean of The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University (2009-2016). Pintak was named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists in 2017 for outstanding service to the profession of journalism around the world and received the AEJMC [Read More...] Coronavirus is bringing to the fore what is likely to be one of Islams most fundamental divides of the next decade: the rift between those Muslims whose worldview is being shaped by the modern world and those who are clinging to a literalist past. It is epitomized by the willingness of a new generation of [] Donald Trump has made the demonization of Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, a key element of his 2020 re-election strategy. But the targeting of Ms. Omar and her fellow Democrat and Muslim member of Congress, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, started as soon as they became candidates. Read the full article at NYT. I met Robert Mugabe in the late 1970s. What he told me still haunts me. (Vox.com) We are not going to make the same mistake the rest of Black Africa has made, Robert Mugabe told me in the late 1970s in an interview for Newsweek. We are going to learn from their mistakes. We met in Mozambique, the headquarters for his guerrilla army, which was then locked in a seemingly interminable [] Responding to Indias August annexation of Kashmir, Pakistani officials are using interviews, op-eds and social media to emphasize that Islamabad is taking a diplomatic, not military, response to the dangerous religious zealotry that is driving Indian policy. Why it matters: Pakistan is betting a global public relations campaign can help address the Kashmir crisis in the [] The WhatsApp message came an hour after I landed in Islamabad. Sardar Masood Khan, the president of Pakistani-administered Kashmir, wanted to ...