The Jewish Studies Program is pleased to welcome Professor Khaled A. Beydoun to Wake Forest University for "Faith In Whiteness: The Roots and Modern Rise of Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, and Their Intersections".

Professor Khaled A. Beydoun is an Associate Professor Law at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. He joined ASU in 2023, and also serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University.  Professor Beydoun is author of the critically acclaimed book American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, co-editor of Islamophobia and the Law – published by University of Cambridge Press, and author of The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims.    

Professor Beydoun's research examines the First Amendment, race, national security, and their intersections. His academic work has been featured in top academic journals, including the UCLA Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, the California Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, and the Harvard Law Review Forum. His insights have been featured in The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, the BBC, and ESPN. Professor Beydoun served on the US Commission for Civil Rights for three years and earned a coveted Open Society Foundations Equality Fellowship. He has been named one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims of the World, and he received the Frederick Douglass Educator Award. In 2021, Professor Beydoun was named “Extraordinary Professor” by the University of Western Cape in South Africa, and he joined the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice as an honorary faculty member that very year. 

In recent years, he has emerged as a leading voice on Arab, Middle Eastern and Muslim identity on the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) space, holding trainings at Fortune 100 companies including Apple, Meta, Nike, Google, and many more.  He is widely regarded as one of the leading experts on Islamophobia globally.

Professor Beydoun in a native of Detroit, Michigan, and holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, UCLA, and Harvard.

Thank you to our event underwriters:

• The Department of the Study of Religions at Wake Forest University
• The Middle East and South Asian Studies program at Wake Forest University
• The Humanities Institute at Wake Forest University
• The Department of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University
• The American Ethnic Studies program at Wake Forest University
• The National Endowment for the Humanities