Supna Syed Zaidi (also spelled Sapna Syed Zaidi) is a Pakistani born American journalist, lawyer, director of the Council for Democracy and Tolerance, assistant director of Islamist Watch at the

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, and editor-in-chief of Muslim World Today and

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. She is the deputy director of the Children's Rights Institute. In 1999, Zaidi received a B.A. in political theory and a B.A. in history of the Near East and Religion from the

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. In May 2003, she received a J.D. from

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. After graduation from law school, Zaidi practiced family, deportation and asylum immigration law in New York and New Jersey. In 2008, Supna Zaidi was appointed Assistant Director of Islamist Watch.Supna Zaidi Appointed Assistant Director of Islamist Watch
July 28, 2008 Zaidi is the daughter of

Tashbih Sayyed 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. ...

, a Pakistani Muslim journalist and general manager of Pakistan Television.

Publications

* Supna Zaidi. Exporting American anti-Americanism to Muslim world. The Washington Examiner. October 28, 2009 * Supna Zaidi. Does Islam Justify Honor Killings? Pajamas Media. September 27, 2008 * Supna Zaidi. The United Islamist Nations. American Spectator. December 4, 2008 * Supna Zaidi. Lawful Islamism's Greatest Attack Yet. Muslim World Today. October 10, 2008 * Supna Zaidi. Sharia Is Hate. Front Page Magazine. 2008

References

Living people Pakistani women journalists Pakistani lawyers Pakistani women lawyers American women journalists American women lawyers Pakistani emigrants to the United States University of California, San Diego alumni New York Law School alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{Pakistan-writer-stub