10 Facts About Rami Nashashibi

Rami Nashashibi is a Palestinian-American activist, community organizer, sociologist, and Islamic studies scholar.

Rami Nashashibi founded the nonprofit organization Inner-City Muslim Action Network in 1997, working as its executive director for many years, and has been involved in a number of efforts to improve the welfare of residents of the South Side of Chicago.

Rami Nashashibi has worked as a sociologist and religious studies scholar at universities, and as a musician.

Rami Nashashibi attended Saint Xavier University for the first year of his university education, where he held a soccer scholarship.

In 1997, while still a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Rami Nashashibi founded the nonprofit Inner-City Muslim Action Network, which aims to address systemic injustices affecting communities of color living on the South Side of Chicago.

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Rami Nashashibi continued to work as the executive director of the organization for many years after it was incorporated in 1997.

In 2016, Rami Nashashibi served on the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which developed recommendations to the Obama administration on how to collaborate with faith-based and neighborhood organizations to serve people in need.

In 2020, Rami Nashashibi was the executive producer, lyricist, and guitarist on an album, This Love Thing, with fellow activist Drea D'Nur and sound engineer Elijah Hooks.

In 2009, Rami Nashashibi was named one of the 500 most influential Muslims by The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding by Georgetown University.

In 2017, Rami Nashashibi was named a MacArthur Fellow, for "confronting the challenges of poverty and disinvestment in urban communities through a Muslim-led civic engagement effort that bridges race, class, and religion".