Nihad Awad

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Nihad Awad is the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington D.C.-based American Muslim political and civil rights group.

After studying civil engineering at the University of Minnesota in the 1990s,[1][2] he worked at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.[3]

After the Gulf war, he was Public Relations Director for the anti-Israel Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). In 1994 IAP president Omar Ahmad and Awad founded CAIR.