KAICIID Fellows
Sofiane Elhabib Chetioui
Sofiane Elhabib Chetioui was born in 1986, in the province of Eloued, Algeria. He is the Imam Khatib of the Ammar ben Yasser Mosque in Batna, Algeria, and a teaching assistant at the University of Batna. He has a master’s degree in doctrine from Aldjinane University, Lebanon and in comparative rel...
Swe Mar Oo
Founder and Director of Generation Tree, Myanmar As a representative of a minority community in Myanmar, Swe Mar Oo was exposed early on to people from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds. Today, she is the Founder and Director of Generation Tree, a Yangon-based NGO which promotes diversity a...
Syed Asad Abbas Rizvi
Assistant Professor, Department of Education, International Islamic University, Islamabad Dr. Asad Rizvi an assistant professor in the Department of Education of the International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIU). He is an active researcher and research coordinator for research degree programs a...
Tahmeed Jan
Executive Director, International Research Council for Religious Affairs, Pakistan Tahmeed Jan serves as Executive Director of the International Research Council for Religious Affairs, a leading think-tank in Pakistan that aims to have no boundaries in research and development through religious eng...
Tirmizy Abdullah
Tirmizy Esmail Abdullah is the current Interfaith Cooperation Forum (ICF) national coordinator in the Philippines. ICF is an Asian movement for justice and transformation that is interreligious in nature, is regional in scope, focuses on marginalised communities, confronts the roots of violence and ...
Ustaz Okonkwo Isa Friday
Director of Administration of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs Ustaz Isa Friday Okonkwo is the director of administration of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA). NSCIA is the umbrella organization and the superintendent of the affairs of Islam and Muslims in Ni...
Uzair Ben Ebrahin
Educator, Futures Academy Uzair Ben Ebrahim is an educator, linguist, facilitator, social justice advocate, decolonialist, performance poet and writer. He holds a B.A. (2014) in linguistics, arabic language and literature, and Hebrew language and literature; a post-graduate certificate (2016) in ed...
Walusimbi Abdul Hafiz
Dean of the faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic Language and Head of department Shariah at the Islamic University in Uganda Dr. Walusimbi Abdul Hafiz has a PhD in Islamic law with qualifications in education, project management, Islamic banking and finance and law. His work experience started as ...