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...
Sri Swami Svatmananda
Before being ordained as a monk, Sri Swami Svatmananda earned dual Bachelor of Science degrees in electronic engineering and computer science and shortly after, a master’s degree in global business administration and international management. Early in his career, he was a renowned expert in the fi...
Suhadi Cholil
Dr. Suhadi is a lecturer at the graduate school of the State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In addition, he is teaching at the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies at the Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University. He is also a board member of higher Islamic ed...
Wageeh Y. F. Mikhail
Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Christianity at the Presbyterian seminary in Cairo Wageeh was born in upper Egypt and after having finished high school, left to Cairo where he enrolled at the Evangelical Theological Seminary, the Presbyterian seminary of the Presbyterian Church in Egypt. ...
Wasel Al-Bourghash
Wasel Al-Bourghash was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is currently the Director of the Office of the Secretary-General of the Muslim World League, in Saudi Arabia. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from King Faisal University. ...
Yudhistir Govinda Das
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...
Zafer Nahhas
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 ...