KAICIID Fellows

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...

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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...

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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...

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Dr. Skender Brucaj

Professor, University College Beder Skender graduated from BoÄŸaziçi 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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Emmanuel Koffi Kra

Executive Secretary and Public Affaires Religious Liberty, Eastern Sahel Union Mission Emmanuel Kra is a pastor for the Seventh-day Adventist Church and director of public affairs and religious freedom at the Eastern Sahel Union Mission, which is headquartered in Togo and covers Benin, Burkina Faso...

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Fadel Salim

Fadel Salim is Head of the Department of Educational and Religious Affairs in the Druze Council in Lebanon. He is also active in the field of human rights, common citizenship, and interreligious dialogue. He is the author of several publications and has carried out extensive research in the field of...

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Father Khaled Hani Gammoh

Father Khaled completed his studies of philosophy and theology from the Latin Seminary of the University of Pontifical Latiran Rome in Jerusalem. He is currently a priest of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and an assistant priest at church in Zarka North, Jordan. He is also a deputy spiritual l...

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