{"id":32204,"date":"2017-12-10T20:35:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T20:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/author-bio\/maha-hilal\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T09:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:46:21","slug":"maha-hilal","status":"publish","type":"to4_author_post","link":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/authors\/maha-hilal\/","title":{"rendered":"Maha Hilal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Maha Hilal is a Muslim Arab American expert on institutionalized Islamophobia, the war on terror, and counternarrative work. She is the author of the book<a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadleafbooks.com\/store\/product\/9781506470467\/Innocent-Until-Proven-Muslim\"><em> Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9\/11<\/em><\/a>, the founding executive director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muslimcounterpublicslab.org\/\">Muslim Counterpublics Lab<\/a> and a founding steering committee member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/gsfund.org\/\">Guantanamo Survivors Fund<\/a>, the first citizen-driven fund to support the men transferred out of detention from the naval base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Maha Hilal is a Muslim Arab American expert on institutionalized Islamophobia, the war on terror, and counternarrative work. She is the author of the book Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9\/11, the founding executive director of Muslim Counterpublics Lab and a founding steering committee member &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/authors\/maha-hilal\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":331553,"template":"","tags":[],"admin_tag":[4],"class_list":["post-32204","to4_author_post","type-to4_author_post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/to4_author_post\/32204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/to4_author_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/to4_author_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32204"},{"taxonomy":"admin_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/admin_tag?post=32204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}