Wael Abdelgawad (Arabic: وائل عبد الجواد; born May 2, 1965) is an American-born novelist, web developer and martial artist, best known for founding one of the first online Muslim matchmaking services,[1] and for his fictional portrayals of American Muslims.
As a columnist for the multi-author blog MuslimMatters.org, he has published a series of online novels that have garnered popular attention from Muslim readers.
[6] Abdelgawad also founded the popular IslamicAnswers.com website,[7] which provides advice to people with marriage and family problems.
[11] Abdelgawad was a featured speaker at the annual ICNA-MAS convention held in Baltimore, Maryland in April 2017,[12] where he discussed the use of fiction in normalizing the American view of Islam and Muslims.
He also spoke at the Islamic Society of North America's (ISNA) 54th annual convention in Chicago in June 2017.