Youssef Edward Morqs is from Egypt. He holds a postgraduate diploma in learning and teaching and a Bachelor of Arts from the psychology department from Helwan University, Egypt. Youssef is deputy manager of the Forum for Intercultural Dialogue Programs and manager of the Media Professionals Programs...

Yudhistir Govinda Das is an ordained monk, spiritual teacher and Country Director of Communications for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in India. Yudhistir holds a graduate degree in communications and journalism and a postgraduate diploma in intellectual property law. A...

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, ...

Zafer Nahhas is a Syrian activist and researcher at the Syrian Centre for Policy Research, with years of experience promoting dialogue with refugee and diaspora communities. After founding and leading Deepening Awareness and Restoring Bridges, a peacebuilding organization, he resigned in 2019 ...

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...

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The Venerable Esika Zawti was born in 1981 in a village in rural Myanmar. He received his monastic education in Buddha’s teaching in the town of Myingyan, Mandalay, Pyay (Prome) and Yangon and received the Sasanadhaja Dhammacariya degree, and in 2005, continued his studies at Sampurnanand Sanskrit...