Hassan Abbas

Quaid-i-Azam Professor at SIPA, Columbia University.

Abbas is Quaid-i-Azam Professor at SIPA, Columbia University. He is also a senior advisor at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society in New York. Abbas has also been a visiting fellow at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. Prior to his academic career, Abbas served as a government official in the administrations of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf. While in the Police Service of Pakistan in the late 1990s, he served in the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pukhtunkhwa).

Debates Featuring Hassan Abbas

Should U.S. Airports Use Racial And Religious Profiling?

With Hassan Abbas, Robert Baer, Debra Burlingame, Michael Chertoff, Deroy Murdock, Asra Q. Nomani

November 22, 2010

On Christmas Day, 2009, twenty-three-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 using explosives hidden in his underwear. A string of missed opportunities and errors by government security agencies culminated in what President Obama would declare a “systemic failure.” Is scanning everyone with expensive, high-tech equipment the best use of limited resources? Or should we use the information that we have—the knowledge that, while not all Muslims are terrorists, most terrorists are Muslim.

Should U.S. Airports Use Racial And Religious Profiling?

With Hassan Abbas, Robert Baer, Debra Burlingame, Michael Chertoff, Deroy Murdock, Asra Q. Nomani

November 22, 2010

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