Sayed Hassan Akhlaq teaches Religion in The George Washington, and Philosophy in both Marymount University and Coppin State University. He specializes in philosophy and religion and contributes to comparative study, dialogue among civilizations, and inter and intra-faith dialogues. He published five books in Iran and Afghanistan and co-edited “The Secular and The Sacred: Complementary and/or Conflictual?” (Washington DC., CRVP, 2017). His works in Farsi focuses on the comparative study of Islamic Peripatetic philosophy and the Enlightenment Philosophy, Rumi, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Mulla Sadra, and modernization. His publications in English are on the comparative study of Christianity (Orthodox, Catholicism, and Protestantism) and Islam (Sunni and Shia), Political Islam, and Sufism.