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Imam Khalid Nasr grew up in a small farming village in southern Egypt and attended Cairo’s renowned Al-Azhar University. In 2000, a thriving mosque in Raleigh, N.C., invited Nasr to lead nightly prayers during the holy month of Ramadan. Before the month was over, the board of the mosque, which already had one imam, asked Nasr to stay on as religious director. Nasr accepted.

Imam Khalid Nasr grew up in a small farming village in southern Egypt and attended Cairo’s renowned Al-Azhar University. In 2000, a thriving mosque in Raleigh, N.C., invited Nasr to lead nightly prayers during the holy month of Ramadan. Before the month was over, the board of the mosque, which already had one imam, asked Nasr to stay on as religious director. Nasr accepted.

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