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 assistant Imam at Masjid Wali Muhammad in Detroit, MI and board trustee for the Metropolitan Detroit Interfaith Workers’ Rights Committee.
Walid has spoken at several institutions of higher learning about Islam and interfaith dialogue including 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 Malian Peace & Tolerance Conference held in Bamako, Mali, which was attended by religious scholars from twelve different countries.
In 2008, Walid delivered the closing benediction at the historic 52nd 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, C-Span, BBC World Service Radio, National Public Radio, the New York Times, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal.
Walid has made the Islamic pilgrimage called Hajj to Mecca, Saudia Arabia, and has traveled to fifteen additional nations including Egypt, Israel, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
Walid also served in the United States Navy under honorable conditions earning two United States Navy & Marine Corp Achievement medals.
