Biography of Supna Zaidi

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Supna Zaidi is assistant director of Islamist Watch at the Middle East Forum. She is also editor-in-chief of Muslim World Today, which was the first American Muslim newspaper to fight against Islamism's encroachment in America. Ms. Zaidi received a B.A. in political theory and a B.A. in history of the Near East and Religion from the University of California, San Diego (1999) and J.D. from New York Law School (2003). After graduation from law school, Ms. Zaidi practiced family, deportation and asylum immigration in New York and New Jersey for three years before transitioning into policy and national security issues.

Supna Zaidi is the daughter of Tashbih Sayyed, a renown reformer in the Muslim world, close friend and supporter of the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Muslim World Today as well as the Council for Democracy and Tolerance. Tashbih was also a liberal journalist and general manager of Pakistan Television in Pakistan in the 70s. Zaidi's family was forced to leave Pakistan after the Islamification policies of Zia ul-Haq.

While living in California, Zaidi and her family experienced marginalization and death threats from Islamists for publicly expressing pro-Israeli, pro-secular views and for being critical of the anti-democratic politics in Pakistan.

Zaidi has published in the American Spectator, the Middle East Quarterly, Pajamas Media, Frontpage Magazine and has a regular column in Muslim World Today.