American Crescent

Imam Hassan Qazwini is descended from seven generations of prestigious Islamic scholars. He was born in Karbala, Iraq, in 1964 and moved to the United States in 1992. He serves as the spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, regularly meets with presidents and other politicians, and has appeared on CNN, NPR, and the BBC and in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, the Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, and a wide range of other media outlets.Brad Crawford, the co-author of American Crescent, is the author of Compass American Guides: Ohio and the co-author of My Sister Is Missing: Bringing a Killer to Justice. A graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, he freelances full-time from Cincinnati, Ohio. His website is www.bradcrawford.net.