# Mustafa Akyol **URL:** --- Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, where he focuses on the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity. Since 2013, he has also been a contributing opinion writer for the [_New York Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/mustafa-akyol), covering politics and religion in the Muslim world.