MANA’s President, Dr. Joshua Salaam, spoke with Dr. Arun Kundnani about his upcoming biography, Rise in Fire, H. Rap Brown, Imam Jamil, and the Long Revolution.
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Dr. Kundnani is a writer interested in race, Islamophobia, surveillance, political violence, and radicalism.
Born in London, he moved to New York in 2010 and now lives in Philadelphia. The Guardian has described him as “one of Britain’s best political writers.”
He is the author of What is Antiracism? (Verso, 2023), The Muslims are Coming! (Verso, 2014) and The End of Tolerance (Pluto, 2007), which was selected as a New Statesman book of the year. He has written for the Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Vice, and The Intercept. A former editor of the journal Race & Class, he was educated at Cambridge University and holds a PhD from London Metropolitan University. He has been an Open Society fellow and a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
Akanke is an Atlanta native raised in a secular household who embraced Islam in 1994. She has a Communication degree from Georgia State University with concentrations in film, TV, and cultural anthropology. She has cultivated a multidimensional career spanning media as a TV/radio producer, empowerment life coaching certification, abstract painting exhibitions, public speaking coaching, leadership training, and voiceover artistry serving clients globally. Since 2007, she has worked with MANA, progressing from volunteer roles to her current dual leadership positions as Board Vice President, steering organizational strategy, and part-time Communications Director, crafting impactful storytelling campaigns.
