Mehnaz Afridi is Professor of Religious studies and Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College. She teaches courses on Islam, the Holocaust, Genocide, comparative religion, and Feminism. Her recent book Shoah through Muslim Eyes (2017) was nominated for the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research. Her forthcoming book is The Wounded Muslim, (2023) and she is co-editing a book with Mark Celinscak, International Approaches to the Holocaust, (2023).