Abdullah M. Awad is the founding director of the Institute for Critical Thought, where he convenes seminars on Islamic and western social thought, and a visiting fellow at Harvard University, where his research traverses intellectual history, continental philosophy, and religion. He has undertaken ethnographic work in China, India, Brazil, and Egypt, and lectured internationally on education and the social sciences. Currently an executive board member of Taghyeer, he was President of the Adelphic Union and a Herchel Smith Fellow at the University of Cambridge.