Blog irshad manji biography

Irshad Manji is a Canadian journalist and author. Her columns are distributed world wide by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times, Al-Arabiya.net and other corporate media outlets.

She also released the documentary Faith Without Fear which was about "reconciling Islam with human rights and freedom"^[1].

She has also appeared on television networks around the world, including Al Jazeera, the CBC, BBC, MSNBC, C-SPAN, CNN, PBS, the Fox News Channel, CBS, and HBO.^[2]

Manji is a senior fellow with the European Foundation for Democracy and founder of both the Moral Courage Project at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service^[3] and the mostly online Project Ijtihad^[4].

Background

Manji was born in 1968 near Kampala, Uganda.^[5] Her mother is of Egyptian descent and her father of Indian heritage.^[6] When Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of Asians and other non-Africans from Uganda in