KAICIID Fellows
Dr. Rafael Ruiz Andres
Researcher, Institute of Religious Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid and Junior Researcher, Foundation for Islamic Culture and Religious Tolerance (FICRT) Rafael is a researcher at the Institute of Religious Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid and a junior researcher at ...
Dr. Raihanah Binti Abdullah
Professor at the Department of Shariah and Law, Academy of Islamic Studies of University Malaya Dr. Raihanah Abdullah is a Professor at the Department of Shariah and Law, Academy of Islamic Studies of University Malaya. From 2011 to 2013, she was the Director of the Centre for Civilizational Dialog...
Dr. Rania Al Ayoubi
Dr. Rania Al Ayoubi is a Syrian scholar-activist. She holds a PhD in Islamic studies and a master’s degree in Islamic studies from the Graduate Theological Foundation, USA, and a bachelor’s in fundamentals of religion from Omdurman University, Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion in Sudan. She is...
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...