Robert Azzi is an Arab-American Muslim who grew up in Manchester, NH.
After college, he embarked on a career as a photo journalist, traveling the
Middle East and beyond photographing wars and conflicts.
Recent efforts to ban immigrants from Muslim countries from entering the U.S.
compelled Azzi to begin a personal effort to share with people interested to know
more about Islam and the Muslim faith.
During his travels Robert Azzi has discovered that most people, even those critical
of Islam and Muslims, when engaged in small scale conversation, are willing to listen
and engage. He speaks not as a scholar or academic but as neighbor, fellow citizen
and person of faith.
Azzi travels New England & beyond at the invitation of local communities. He speaks
about his life, being Muslim in America, how he came to convert to Islam, about the
religion of Islam, its history, especially in America, and about the Middle East, terrorism
and associated political and social issues. “Nothing is off the table…”
Azzi has been a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, a member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard Divinity
School, an advisor to Tufts University’s Fletcher School committee on Islam and South-West Asia, and is a board member of ACLU-NH.