Tashbih Sayyed | |
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Born | 1941 India |
Died | 2007 (aged 65–66) |
Occupation | Scholar, journalist, and author |
Nationality | Pakistani-American |
Subject | Politics and religion |
Literary movement | Secularist |
Notable works | "History of the World," "Left of the Center," "Pakistan – An Unfinished Agenda," "Mohammad – A Secularist's View," "Foreign Policy of Pakistan" and "Shadow Warriors – Afghanistan, Pakistan, Taliban." |
Tashbih Sayyed (1941–2007) was a Pakistani-American scholar, journalist, and author and was the editor-in-chief of Our Times, Pakistan Today, and In Review. Sayyed worked from 1967 to 1980 for the Pakistan Television Corporation. In 1981, he emigrated to the United States. As a regular columnist for newspapers in the US, Pakistan, Germany and India,[1] Sayyed wrote about what he perceived as the Islamist threat to the US. In 2004 he was one of the founders of the Center for Islamic Pluralism.[2]
He was also founder of the websites Muslim World Today and Pakistan Today (not the Pakistani newspaper of the same name). Sayyed is featured in the documentaries, Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in Israel and Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.