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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Yulianti Muthmainnah has more than 13 years’ experience in areas related to women and human rights issues. She teaches at the Muhammadiyah University of Prof. Dr. Hamka, Jakarta and is a researcher at KAPAL Perempuan (the Circle of Alternative Education for Women). Yuli completed six years in Indo...

Yusuf Daud earned his first scholarship for a Master of Science from the University of Indonesia in the International Affairs Middle East and Islamic Department in 2005 and his second for a Master of Philosophy and Islamic Mysticism from ICAS London in 2006. He has published four books on religion, ...

Zaid Bahr Al-Uloom is a PhD candidate in Islamic sciences at the Islamic University of Lebanon, and a researcher at the Bahr al-Uloom Institute in Najaf, Iraq.   He was born in Baghdad in 1981 and graduated from high school in Najaf in 1999. He joined Al Hawza (a religious academy) in 2001 and dur...

ZAF Wazniya Pasha graduated with First Class Honours as an Attorney at Law from the Sri Lanka Law College in 2001 and completed the Master of Human Rights and Democratisation programme at the University of Colombo in 2019. She is a practising Notary Public and Company Secretary, as well as volunteer...