Short bio on Dawud Walid

Dawud Walid interviewed on CNN

Dawud Walid is currently the Executive Director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), a chapter of America’s largest advocacy and civil liberties organization for Muslims.

Walid also serves as an  advisory board member of the East West Link News and board trustee for the Metropolitan Detroit Interfaith Workers’ Rights Committee.

Walid has spoken at over twenty institutions of higher learning about Islam and interfaith dialogue including DePaul University, Harvard University and the University of the Virgin Islands.  He has also presented on prominent panel discussions with international leaders and academics such as a panel discussion on African-American and American Muslim relations at the 2008 Congressional Black Caucus Convention with the Reverend Jesse Jackson to the 2009 and 2010 Malian Peace & Tolerance Conferences held in Bamako, Mali, which were attended by religious scholars from twelve different countries.

In 2008, Walid delivered the closing benediction at the historic 52^nd Michigan Electoral College in the Michigan State Senate chambers and gave the Baccalaureate speech for graduates of the prestigious Cranbrook-Kingswood Academy located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Walid has been interviewed, quoted, and published in numerous media outlets including Al-Jazeera, CNN, BBC World Service Radio, FOX, National Public Radio, the New York Times, Saudi TV 2, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal.

Walid has made the Islamic pilgrimage called Hajj to Mecca, Saudia Arabia twice and has traveled to fifteen additional nations including Egypt, Israel, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

Walid served as assistant Imam of Masjid Wali Muhammad in Detroit from 2001 until September 2011 while also serving as interim resident Imam of the Bosnian Islamic Center in Hamtramck during the summer of 2007.

Walid also served in the United States Navy under honorable conditions earning two United States Navy & Marine Corp Achievement medals as well as having received awards of recognition from the city councils of Detroit and Hamtramck and from the Mayor of Lansing.