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Ibrahim Negm earned his BA in Islamic Studies in 1995 from AlAzhar university in Cairo and was the class valedictorian. He was awarded a distinguished fellowship to conduct research at Harvard Law School 1996/1997. He was also a visiting Scholar and researcher at Oxford University, UK, 2003. He obtained his PhD in Islamic Studies in 2005 from Graduate Theological Seminary, Indiana,USA. He was the adjunct assistant professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, St John’s university in New York in 2005,is currently serving as the senior advisor to His Eminence the Grand Mufti of Egypt since 2006 till the present. He is also the current Secretary General for Fatwa Authorities Worldwide, an umbrella independent organization that has over 100 countries as members aiming at coordinating the work among Fatwa authorities worldwide and countering radical fatwas. As an established author, he wrote more than a dozen books on Islamic legal interpretation, countering violent extremism and Muslim Christian relations.