Supna Zaidi


Supna Zaidi is a Pakistani born American journalist, lawyer, director of the Council for Democracy and Tolerance, assistant director of Islamist Watch at the Middle East Forum, and editor-in-chief of Muslim World Today and Pakistan Today. 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 University of California, San Diego. In 2003 she received a J.D. from New York Law School. 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.
Zaidi is the daughter of Tashbih Sayyed, a Pakistani Muslim journalist and general manager of Pakistan Television.

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