W. Deen Mohammed is the son of the late Elijah Mohammed (founder of the Nation of Islam) and the leader of a de-centralized society of Muslim Americans with Mosques and schools in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. He has contributed to an ongoing dialogue between leaders of Islam, Christianity and Judaism acting as the representative for the religion of Islam at President Clinton's Inaugural Interfaith Prayer Service, as a member of the Board of Directors for the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions and a member of the World Supreme Council of Mosques. He is the author of Prayer and Al-Islam, Focus on Al-Islam, Al-Islam, Unity and Leadership and the host of the weekly television program, W. Deen Mohammed and Guest in Chicago.