Arsalan Iftikhar is an American Muslim human rights lawyer and founder of the GeoMuslim Institute (GMI). Previously, Arsalan was a research faculty member at Georgetown University in Washington DC for five years. He is the author of several books including FEAR OF A MUSLIM PLANET and SCAPEGOATS which former US President Jimmy Carter called “an important book that shows Islamophobia must be addressed urgently.” Arsalan’s global media interviews have appeared everywhere from CNN to BBC World News to Al-Jazeera English and his speaking venues have included Harvard University, U.S. State Department International Speakers Program, Organization for Security & Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and The Aspen Ideas Festival. Arsalan was also once cast as a Hollywood movie ‘featured extra’ for the Warner Brothers spy movie thriller Body of Lies starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. CNN named one of Arsalan’s opinion editorials as one of the top “100 CNN Op-Eds That Tell The Story of the 2010s” decade and he was awarded the 2013 Distinguished Young Alumni Award from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis (where he received both his undergraduate and law degrees).