Khaled's ability to speak from within and to serve as an effective interface between communities was crucial in galvanizing Muslim and Arab communities to find common cause with their Black and Brown neighbors. While the coalitions to preserve affirmative action could not overcome the coordinated efforts of well-resourced and highly organized factions bent on destroying it, the brainstorming, debating, and organizing that we pursued in partnership with the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) would deepen our understanding of the parallel and overlapping dimensions of Islamophobia.

XREF: Connects to broader literature on cross-racial coalition building and intersectional organizing, echoing themes from civil rights movement histories.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 22