KAICIID Fellows
Dr. Saba Soomekh
Associate Director, American Jewish Committee in Los Angeles, and Lecturer, Academy for Jewish Religion Saba is the associate director at the human rights organization, American Jewish Committee in Los Angeles, and a lecturer at The Academy for Jewish Religion where she teaches religious studies an...
Dr. Shaimaa Ballout
Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Arts, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University Shaimaa is an assistant professor in Islamic studies, specialising in Da’wah and leadership studies. She aspires to build an impressive portfolio that includes research, training and t...
Dr. Skender Brucaj
Professor, University College Beder Skender graduated from Boğaziçi University with a major in psychology. His master’s focused on the role and influence that ethnocentrism has on people’s behaviour. He completed his doctoral studies at the European University of Tirana with a focus on qu...
Dr. Souaad Muhammad Abbas
Lecturer, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad; Vice Chair Person, IDRAC Dr. Souaad Muhammad Abbas earned her doctorate in Islamic Studies in 2018 from the National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan. She believes in hard work and finds is interested in various acade...
Dr. Yehuda Silverman
Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Ursuline College Yehuda is the Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at Ursuline College and he collaborates with the Office of Diversity to foster inclusion on campus. He is currently developing a course on Intrapersonal Peace and Conflict Prevention, which w...
Durga Pulendran
Conflict Analyst, WFP Sri Lanka Durga has a master’s degree in international development and environmental analysis from Monash University, Australia, and currently provides technical support for WFP Sri Lanka on conducting conflict analysis. Until recently, she worked as the Assistant Director o...
Edmund Chia
Senior Lecturer of Theology and Co-director of the Inter-religious Dialogue Network, Australian Catholic University Edmund is a scholar of Asian Christianity and interreligious dialogue. He began his career as a De La Salle Brother and high-school teacher in Malaysia. He then headed the interreligi...
Elder Justina Mike Ngwobia
Elder Justina Mike Ngwobia is a peacebuiding practitioner who has been working in the field of interfaith relations for over 15 years. She holds a Bachelors’ degree in social work and administration. Her passion for Christian-Muslim harmony and dialogue grew when she moved to the northern part of...
Eleonora Pede
PhD Student, Faculty of Theology of Lugano Eleonora is doing a PhD in religious studies at the Faculty of Theology, Lugano. Her field of research is a comparative study between Muslim and Christian ethics, focusing on gender issues in Europe. Eleonora strongly believes that there is a link between ...
Elisabeth Palugyay
Section head, migration and refugee aid, Austrian Red Cross Vienna After having worked for the General Secretariat of the Austrian Red Cross in the Department for International Relations, Elisabeth Palugyay changed to the Viennese Office where she is heading the section of migration and refugee aid...