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Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, 67, is a journalist, author and Muslim community leader in India. He studied in India, Egypt and UK. He writes and speaks Urdu, English and Arabic. He is the chief editor of the leading Indian Muslim English publication The Milli Gazette (www.milligazette.com) and has been twice the President of All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (AIMMM), the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations. He is chairman of Charity Alliance which is doing charitable work among some most disadvantaged Muslims in India like Murshidabad and Muzaffarnagar. He has attended scores of conferences across the world and has organised a number of international conferences in London and Delhi including the International Dialogue between Islam & Oriental Religions in February 2010 at Delhi. Dr Khan is an expert of Islam and Middle Eastern issues in general and the Palestinian issue in particular. He is author and translator of over 40 books in Arabic, English and Urdu including Hijrah in Islam (Delhi, 1996) and Palestine Documents (New Delhi 1998). He has contributed eight articles to the Encyclopaedia of Islam (Leiden) on Indo-Muslim themes. He is a regular commentator on Islamic and South Asian issues on radio and TV channels, including Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya and BBC Arabic and his writings appear in Arabic newspapers and magazines. MA (Islamic history), Cairo University, 1978; PhD (Islamic Studies), Manchester University, 1987.