Timur Kuran is professor of economics and political science and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University in Durham, N.C. He has researched economic issues involving Islam, and his books include Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism (Princeton University Press, 2004).

Mahmoud El-Gamal is a professor of economics and statistics at Rice University in Houston and holds the endowed chair in Islamic economics, finance and management. He has published about Islamic transaction law and finance.

Read a Nov. 15, 2004, Christian Science Monitor article on how past elections have influenced the culture wars.

From 1978 to 2012, Andrew Jay Schwartzman was senior vice president and policy director of the Media Access Project, a nonprofit, public-interest law firm that represented listeners’ and speakers’ interests before the FCC.  He is an attorney and consultant who specializes in media and telecommunications policy. He is now an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University. […]

Tony Perkins is president of the Family Research Council, which works to foster “a culture in which all human life is valued, families flourish, and religious liberty thrives.” He also leads the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, which tracks religious persecution around the world.

Ravinder Singh Bhalla is a lawyer, city councilman and founding member of the national Sikh Bar Association. In 2003, he was asked to remove his turban as part of a search before being allowed to visit a client in a New York prison. He protested and ultimately got the Board of Prisons to change its […]

View a 2001 exhibit from the University of California, Berkeley’s library of historical photographs of the south Asians, including Sikhs, in California.

A July 29, 2004, New York Times story about two Sikhs who won the right to wear turbans in jobs as New York City traffic enforcement agents.

The Becket Fund is a public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C., that works to protect the free expression of all religious traditions. For interviews, contact Ryan Colby.