Alec F. Rivera is an undergraduate student of International and Religious Studies at the University of Miami (FL). He is currently taking an 8-credit, intensive course on contemporary Islam and political culture and expects to graduate from either the University of Miami (FL) of American University (DC) in Spring of 2011. Alec will pursue a graduate degree immediately thereafter. Currently, his greatest interests are the period of Islamic rule throughout the Iberian Peninsula from 711-1492 CE and Islam in secular Turkey. In September 2009, Alec was hired as a reporter for the Lipman Times, an online newspaper for progressives, and was recently promoted to senior reporter. His life ambitions include starting a non-profit promoting interfaith dialogue, teaching a course on religion and international politics at an institution of higher education, and pursuing a career in American politics or the US foreign service. Feel free to contact him with any questions (using the /ask feature) or simply say hello.

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