Born in Karachi, Pakistan, I moved to Canada when I was two and to the United States a year later, where I have lived ever since.
I write about Muslims in America and American foreign policy as it relates to the Muslim world. My essays and interviews on politics and religion have appeared online on AltMuslim.com, Antiwar.com, CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, and The Nation. I served as a columnist and blogger for WireTap Magazine before it closed its doors, and I am now a regular contributor for Foreign Policy in Focus, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies.
I majored in journalism at Northeastern University in Boston, where I co-founded Left Hook, a left-wing online youth journal that ran from November 2003 to March 2006. After graduation, I worked for the daily press in suburban Massachusetts and weeklies in Queens, New York.
Finding the meagerness of a journalist’s pay less than enchanting, I left the field and spent a year-and-a-half as a communications coordinator for an anti-domestic violence agency. I now do communications work for another non-profit.
I live in NYC with my beautiful wife, Lindsay, a devout Roman Catholic with a weakness for all varieties of bitter chocolate and one particular brooding writer.
I can be reached at junaidalam1 AT gmail.com.