Founder, Al-Islaah Center Sheikh Kishk has a decade of experience as an imam, teacher and sscholar, calling to Islam an and dispelling misconceptions about Islam. With he founded the Al-Islaah Center, a think tank to propagate peacebuilding, tolerance, conflict management, capacity building and i...

Ahmed Ragab Abo El-Azm is assistant to the Senior Advisor to the Grand Mufti of Egypt. He graduated from Azhar University in 2004, and obtained his MA in information services in 2012. He is currently working on his PhD for the same university. His motto in life is: “Religion is the key to s...

The Venerable Varasami has been working in development and social change with people from different religious backgrounds in the Mandalay area in Myanmar since 2010. His interest in dialogue with people from different religions stems from an encounter with his English teacher, a Catholic teacher fro...

Babu Ram Poudel, Executive Director of Pro Public, holds a master’s degree in sociology, conflict peace and development studies from the Tribhuvan University of Nepal. He has 20 years of work experience in the development field that includes around 7 years of experience in governance, civic educa...

Community Liaison Assistant, MINUSCA Anselme Bezzi has worked as the Community Liaison Assistant at MINUSCA (United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic) since April 2016, specialising in protection of civilians. Prior to that, he was the nationa...

Bishoy Zayed Fikry is the dialogue coordinator at the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services in Egypt. In this capacity, he works to build capacity among religious leaders and community leaders in facilitation, and to strengthen inter-community ties. He believes that this supports tole...

Dr. Hoon is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Advanced Research (CARe) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He is also an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, where he obtained his PhD (with Distinction) in 2007. Prior to this, he was Assistant Professor of As...

Abdel-Wahab Ahmed Hassan Taha comes from Iraq. He has a PhD and MA in Islamic Aqidah/Creed studies. Since 2009, he has been teaching at the Great Imam Collage in addition, he is the Imam and Khatib of Abu Hanifa Mosque in Baghdad. ...

Instructor at the Holy Najaf seminary, Iraq Dr. Amjad Abu el Ezz has been involved with the international development and politics both professionally on a diplomatic and journalistic level, and academically for the last decade. He holds a PhD from Durham University and his area of expertise cove...

Ammar Hakmat Farhan obtained his PhD in Philosophy from the College of Arts at Al-Iraqia University and is currently Head of Department of Islamic Philosophy at the College of Islamic Sciences, University of Baghdad. ...