Mehnaz Afridi
Dr. Afridi is a Professor of Religion and Philosophy and Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University. She teaches courses on Islam, the Holocaust, Genocide, Comparative Religion, and Feminism.
Her book, Shoah through Muslim Eyes (Academic Studies Press, 2017), was nominated for the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research and the Jacob Schnitzer Book Award. She is currently working on a book, The Wounded Muslim (Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming), and a co-edited book, “Global Approaches to the Holocaust” (Nebraska University Press, 2025). In 2019, she was awarded the Costello Award for teaching excellence at the School of Liberal Arts and the Lasallian Educator (2020) at Manhattan University.
She is also a US State Department Member on the delegation for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. She also serves as a member of the Committee of Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, D.C. She consults and speaks nationally and internationally on Religious Affairs, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia.
Dr. Afridi obtained her Ph.D. from the University of South Africa and her M.A. and B.A. from Syracuse University.