Michael Wolfe, Co-Founder, Executive Producer

Michael Wolfe is the co-Executive Producer of A Prince Among Slaves, Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet and Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain.
In 1997, Wolfe wrote and narrated a special televised Hajj report from Mecca for ABC Nightline. The program was nominated for Peabody, George Polk, Overseas Press Club, and Emmy awards; it received the Muslim Public Affairs Council's Media Award for that year. In 2003, he contributed to and helped produce a Hajj Special broadcast by CNN-International.
Wolfe has been featured on many regional and national radio talk shows. He writes an occasional column called "From a Western Minaret" for the Web journal Beliefnet.com. He has published three books about Islam: a travel narrative, The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca (1993); an historical anthology, One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage (1997), and an anthology of articles by American Muslims called Taking Back Islam (2002), which received a Wilbur Award as Best Book of the Year on a religious theme. He holds a degree in Classics from Wesleyan University.
Wolfe's work on Islam has been widely reviewed in the mainstream press, in Western academic journals, and among Muslim scholars. He has lectured at Stanford, Harvard and Georgetown University, among others.