Ahmed Rehab

Executive Director

Ahmed Rehab is Executive Director of the Chicago Office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations as well as CAIR's National Strategic Communications Director. CAIR is the nation's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy group.

With two decades in leadership and institution-building, Rehab is regarded as a national leading expert on US civil rights, media relations, and Islam-West relations. He has given hundreds of public lectures and presentations at University campuses and public stages coast to coast and around the world. Rehab has been interviewed thousands of times. on various local, national and global TV and cable news programs as well as national and international print media. His Op-Ed's have been published in numerous newspapers around the country.

Rehab served as a board member of the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR), as vice-president of RefugeeOne, a co-founder of the Bridge Initiative at Georgetown University, a board member and secretary of the Egyptian American Society, a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' (CCGA) Muslim task force, and an Eisenhower fellow of the American Assembly.

Rehab is the founding President of Amrex Consulting and Amrex Media, a trustee of Al Azhar Islamic Foundation, and an Adjunct Professor at the American Islamic College.