Sayed Hassan Akhlaq is a Professorial Lecturer at The George Washington University and a faculty member at Marymount University and Coppin State University. He specializes in philosophy and religion and contributes to comparative study, dialogue among civilizations, and inter and intra-faith dialogues on issues like human rights, women’s rights, modernization, and environmental theology. In addition to his own books and articles, Akhlaq’s research has been published in volumes including: Conflict in the Modern Middle East (2020); Religion, Sustainability, and Education (2021); Justice & Responsibility Cultural and Philosophical Foundations (2018); The Secular and the Sacred: Complementary and/or Conflictual? (2017); Sufism, Pluralism and Democracy (2017); Nostra Aetate (2016); Global Studies and Encyclopedic Dictionary (2014); Building Community in a Mobile/Global Age Migration and Hospitality (2013); and Philosophy Emerging from Culture (2013).
Akhlaq has worked as a visiting research fellow at Boston University, Princeton University, and McLean Center for the Study of Culture and Values at The Catholic University of America. He received his PhD in philosophy from Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran and graduated from Hawza Ilmiya in Mashhad, Iran. Akhlaq co-founded Gharjistan University in Kabul, Afghanistan, and served as its dean in Farah province. He also has worked as an academic advisor at the Afghanistan Academy of Sciences and has taught in the Iranian universities Payem-e Noor and al-Mustafa in Mashhad. Before the recent collapse of Kabul at the hands of the Taliban, he worked as editor-in-chief for Paideia, an Afghan journal on culture, religion, and philosophy dedicated to translations from Europeans languages into Dari/Farsi.
