Asiff Hussein is a Freelance Writer and Author of a number of publications in thefields of Ethnology, Sociology and Linguistics. Hussein served as a Journalist at theBusiness Desk of the Sunday Times before joining the Sunday Observer where he servedin the Business and Features Desks. He has contributed numerous articles on varioustopics which have been published in the newspapers and on the Internet. He has alsocontributed to Business Today, Explore Sri Lanka, the Souvenirs of the Moors IslamicCultural Home and Hamdard Islamicus Journal of Studies and Research in Islam. Healso served as the Editor of Islamic Finance Today, a magazine exclusively dedicated tothe promotion of ethical interest-free banking and finance.Hussein is the author of a number of publications including The Origins of the SinhalaLanguage. A Lexical Reconstruction of Sinhala Vocables to their Earliest Known Proto- Indo-European Forms (2002); Sarandib. An Ethnological Study of the Muslims of SriLanka (Feb & July 2007 and September 2011), Zeylanica, a Study of the Peoples andLanguages of Sri Lanka (2009), Ivilly Pevilly. The Gastronome’s Guide to the CulinaryHistory & Heritage of Sri Lanka (2012); Tolerance in Islam (2012) and Caste in SriLanka. From Ancient Times to the Present Day (2013) He has also co-authored Memonsof Sri Lanka. Men, Memoirs, Milestones with Hameed Kareem (2006) and co-edited TheMuslim Heritage of Eastern Sri Lanka with S.H.M.Jameel (2011). A Sinhala translationof his book on Tolerance in Islam Islamaya Desana Agamika Ivasima was published in2014.He holds a B.A. Degree in Social Sciences from the Open University of Sri Lanka, aPost-graduate Diploma in Archaeology from the University of Kelaniya and a Diploma inJournalism from the Aquinas College of Higher Studies, Sri Lanka. He is also among theSri Lankan Alumni of the International Visitor Leadership Programme organised by theUS State Department, having participated in an IVLP Programme on Religion and SocialJustice in America on a tour that covered Washington, Huntsville, Birmingham, Santa Feand San Francisco from June 28thto July 16th2010.