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Dr. Basandowah obtained her doctorate in international relations from Cairo University. In addition to her academic career, she heads the Arab Initiative for Education and development, an NGO founded in 2012 which seeks to combat violence and extremist ideology and promote social peace within Arab countries suffering from social schisms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574797033148-A0I76ERBF57032JRNFNF/Wessam+Basandowah.png Our Team - Wissam Besandowa Wesam Basandowah is a professor of political science and head of the Council of Trustees for the Arab Initiative for Development. Dr. Basandowah obtained her doctorate in international relations from Cairo University. In addition to her academic career, she heads the Arab Initiative for Education and development, an NGO founded in 2012 which seeks to combat violence and extremist ideology and promote social peace within Arab countries suffering from social schisms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574716862414-DDNPDI8A1U2N1IQEJ3QD/Mostafa+El-Dessouki.png Our Team - Mostafa El-Dessouki Director Of Arabic Communication Mostafa El-Dessouki is the Managing Editor of the pan-Arab news magazine Al-Majalla. A native of Alexandria, Dessouki served in the Egyptian navy, received his Bachelors degree from the University of Alexandria, and earned a Masters in comparative Islamic theology at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Dessouki’s commitment to peace communications stems from a family legacy. In 1919, his grandfather, Mohammed Kamel El-Dessouki, founded the Alexandrian newspaper Al-Ta’akhi (Brotherhood), managed by Muslim, Christian, and Jewish coeditors and devoted to promoting friendship among the three faith-based communities. In February 2017, working with Joseph Braude, Dessouki brokered an institutional partnership between the Union of Egyptians in Europe, the largest Egyptian diaspora organization; and the Israeli Regional Initiative, an NGO that builds bridges to Arab countries with which Israel does not enjoy formal relations. The inaugural gathering in London brought together media and civic actors from Israel and seven Arab countries for the first public Egyptian forum about peace promotion since the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1979. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574716874772-OP701FX14236RJBAS8FK/Joseph+Braude.png Our Team - Joseph Braude Director of International Outreach Joseph is the President of the Center for Peace Communications. He is an expert on the nexus of culture and politics in Arab societies and maintains an active presence in the region’s media and policy debates. He studied Near Eastern languages at Yale and Arabic and Islamic history at Princeton. He developed his Arabic to broadcast quality over a seven-year stint on Moroccan national radio and added Persian to his Arabic and Hebrew as a graduate student at the University of Tehran. Braude’s most recent book, Reclamation: A Cultural Policy for Arab-Israeli Partnership (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2019) presents a strategy on how to roll back generations of antisemitic and rejectionist messaging in Arab media, mosques, and schools. His three prior books include a prescription for post-Saddam institution building in Iraq (The New Iraq, Basic Books, 2003), a study of crime and punishment in Casablanca (The Honored Dead, Random House, 2011), and an assessment of prospects to foster liberal social trends through Arab media (Broadcasting Change, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1575816257698-4FFQ9ZIZ35WOKD2XZV16/Eglal+Ghita.jpg Our Team - Eglal Gheita Egyptian Human Rights Advocate Eglal Ghita, a British-Egyptian national, is a solicitor in London. Both bilingual and bicultural, she stands poised to act as one of the Arab Council's leading voices in the media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574716746149-A8MWQ3ZNG0W7G9RKQSTG/%D8%B9%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%85%D8%AF.jpg Our Team - Dr. Essam Abdel-Samad Honorary President Of The Arab Council For Regional Integration Dr. Essam Abdel Samad is the Honorary President of the Arab Council for Regional Integration. He lives between London and Cairo and heads the Union of Egyptians in Europe – an NGO registered with the Egyptian Government’s Association of Civil Society Organizations. Abdel Samad serves as an unofficial adviser to the Egyptian leadership and was also a key player in drafting the Egyptian constitution following the Arab Spring. Three years ago, Abdel Samad hosted an Arab-Israeli meeting in London where representatives from seven Arab countries and Israelis called for the reorganization of Arab-Israeli relations in an unprecedented initiative known as the “Samad Initiative”. He also heads prominent national, Arab and international initiatives and has led several conferences and seminars both in and outside Egypt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574716829625-Z5LYE81I0IP8DO29O421/Dennis+Ross.png Our Team - Dennis Ross Advisor Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Prior to returning to the Institute in 2011, he served two years as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. For more than twelve years, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He was instrumental in assisting Israelis and Palestinians to reach the 1995 Interim Agreement; he also successfully brokered the 1997 Hebron Accord, facilitated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty, and intensively worked to bring Israel and Syria together. A scholar and diplomat with more than two decades of experience in Soviet and Middle East policy, Ambassador Ross worked closely with Secretaries of State James Baker, Warren Christopher, and Madeleine Albright. Prior to his service as special Middle East coordinator under President Clinton, Ambassador Ross served as director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the first Bush administration. In that capacity, he played a prominent role in U.S. policy toward the former Soviet Union, the unification of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms control negotiations, and the 1991 Gulf War coalition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574716894033-EIFPWJA73XDZ1LMSJNJT/Nadia+Turki.png Our Team - Nadia Al-Turki Tunisian Journalist And Writer / Media Advisor To The Arab Council For Regional Integration Nadia Al-Turki is a prominent international journalist, writer, poet and academic. She writes in three languages, and aside from Arabic, is fluent in French and English. With a deep-rooted background in the media, she is a seasoned journalist, working for Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Newspaper, Al-Arab News, Al-Majalla and the Saudi Publishing and Research Company. She is currently President and Founder of the International Academy of Media and Diplomacy (IAMD). Her work has enabled her to build a wide network of influencers and to forge professional relationships within the diplomatic and media community. She is also the executive editor and founder of 7D news. While working in the political section of the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Newspaper, she interviewed Arab and international figures in various fields. These include the late Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, the Yemeni Prime Minister, the former Libyan Prime Minister, the President of NATO, the former Tunisian President, the former Portuguese President, the British Minister for Middle East Affairs, many officials and experts from the United Nations as well as many international organizations and universities from all around the world. Al-Turki regularly participates in radio and television programs as a political analyst. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574716880598-QD4E8T1RLIGDZCNRVNRN/Issa+al-Arabi.png Our Team - Issa Rashid Al-Arabi Gulf Affairs Coordinator For The Arab Council For Regional Integration Issa Rashed al-Arabi is an International human rights expert and defender focusing on Bahrain and the Arab region. He is a researcher and international consultant in the fields of national reconciliation, peace building and the promotion of transitional justice issues. Al-Arabi has founded or participated in the establishment of many associations and human rights committees in Bahrain and other countries in the region. Previously, he and a group of human rights defenders in the region founded the Gulf International Organization for Human Rights in Geneva where he served as Secretary General for more than two years. Later, in 2015, he and a group of Arab human rights activists founded the Arab Federation for Human Rights in Geneva where he served as Secretary General until 2017. This organization was born out of the need to unify Arab human rights work and direct it towards promoting respect for human rights in the region. In this, Al-Arabi sought to forge partnerships between governments and representatives of civil society active in the field of human rights. The aim of the Arab Federation for Human Rights is to contribute to the strengthening and upgrading of the Arab human rights system. Al-Arabi is now responsible for the chairmanship of the Arab Union for Human Rights, which represents many Arab and international organizations concerned with Arab affairs. Al-Arabi has participated in more than twenty sessions of the Human Rights Council, and in many periodic reviews of human rights at the United Nations. He has also participated in many regional and international conferences, seminars, meetings and forums on human rights. Additionally, Al-Arabi has taken part in numerous fellowship programs and international visits for peace programs. He presented a national reconciliation and peacebuilding initiative in Bahrain after the events of 2011. Al-Arabi has spoken at numerous seminars on human rights, peace building, peace promotion and the promotion of a culture of tolerance at international think tanks such as Chatham House, international universities such as Oxford and Harvard, and the United Nations Palace for Human Rights. He also assumed the role of secretary for the first general conference titled “Human Rights in the GCC Countries” in 2014 and the second in 2015 , as well as secretary for first Arab Forum for Human Rights at the Arab League in 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574716886568-44ISEBN2UN1GD9WSUQ51/Wedad+al-Bakr.png Our Team - Wedad Saleh Al-bakr Graphic Artist And Artistic Consultant To The Arab Council Al-Bakr studied Arabic literature and education, completed her masters in Arabic poetry, and then re-established her relationship with fine art when she joined the Institute of Fine Arts in Britain to study art and design in 2003. At that time, she began to paint again, discover, learn, and turn imagination into creation, grateful for her study of Arabic literature and poetry in enriching her artistic experience.She has attended many art workshops in Canada and the United States, and has participated in many exhibitions locally and internationally. She held her first solo exhibition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2009. Her work was also exhibited at the United Nations Palace in Geneva in 2010. In 2013, Widad Al-Bakr established a career for herself as a professional artist, drawing and studying art, and organizing workshops for artists from different countries around the world. She held her second solo exhibition at Buzaboon House in Muharraq, Bahrain in 2015.Al-Bakr was chosen to participate in several art exhibitions across Europe and the Arab world and was a guest on the Rawafed Cultural TV show on the Al-Arabiya network in 2016. She later held her third solo exhibition at the Bahrain Financial Harbor. Widad went on to support peace through the arts, which resulted in her fourth solo exhibition, held in Dubai, UAE in 2016 under the auspices of the Innovation and Scientific Research Club and in conjunction with the Global Initiative for Tolerance launched by [UAE Prime Minister] His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.Al-Bakr founded, organized and participated in the exhibition “Art for Peace” in collaboration with the International Peace Institute in 2017. In partnership with them, she also founded and organized the “Women and Art for Peace” project the same year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574716932761-9MVQ4Q0T02ZV0V74FWYS/Mervet+Shibli.jpg Our Team - Mervet Shibli Syrian Journalist And Writer Public Relations Officer for the Arab Council https://english.thearabcouncil.net/members-gallery daily 0.75 2020-01-23 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/t/5e290ce0a9d34221485401d0/1574718315667/ Members https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/5ddc4ac83d0c4721e3ee635b/5ddc4b6ba43b32205d0a448e/1574718315667/ Members https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718332006-7882NQGU7M084I165CSC/Mohammed+Anwar+Sadat.png Members - Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat محمد أنوار السادات Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat heads the Reform and Development Party as an elected representative in Egypt’s Parliament. A nephew of the late Anwar al-Sadat, famed for signing the Camp David Accord that established peace with Israel, Muhammad al-Sadat has been a strong advocate for reform within Egypt and a true peace between peoples in the broader Middle East. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718374159-ZIT7ODTP53ROK1GTIROK/Sami+al-Nesf.png Members - Sami al-Nesf سامي النصف Sami al-Nesf is a former Kuwaiti Minister of Information. Resident in Kuwait City, he has been a trailblazing voice in the Gulf publicly calling for the establishment of full civil relations with Israel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718408397-VW2CLY0GFCR9DFSPCV4J/Saida+Agrebi.png Members - Saida Agrebi سعيدة عقربي Saida is a member of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council of the African Union, representing North Africa. She also sits on the Pan-African Parliament representing Tunisia. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Masters Degree in Public Health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718416933-LL3VUP8O3TQ8WD31HXT0/Wessam+Basandowah.png Members - Wesam Basindowah وسام بساندوه Wesam Basindowah is a professor of political science and head of the Council of Trustees for the Arab Initiative for Development. Dr. Basindowah obtained her doctorate in international relations from Cairo University. In addition to her academic career, she heads the Arab Initiative for Education and development, an NGO founded in 2012 which seeks to combat violence and extremist ideology and promote social peace within Arab countries suffering from social schisms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718419595-Q4D4SHTFTD95SSOYM039/Mostafa+El-Dessouki.png Members - Mostafa El-Dessouki مصطفى الدسوقي Residing in London, Dessouki edits Saudi Arabia’s flagship news magazine, Al-Majalla. He serves as Director of Arab Communications for the Center for Peace Communications as well as media relations director for the Union of Egyptians in Europe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718427032-WDOF5P90AB81V1L4EY2I/Issa+al-Arabi.png Members - Issa al-Arabi عيسى العربي Issa al-Arabi heads Bahrain's “Arab Federation for Human Rights.” In a July interview on the French-language Arabic broadcast Monte Carlo International, he conveyed his intention to visit Israel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718450357-D3ERC29ZEYTQQT270T33/Dajjani+Image.jpg Members - Mohammed Dajani al-Daoudi محمد دجاني Mohammed Dajani is the founder of the Wasatia movement and director of the Wasatia Graduate Academic Institute. Resident in East Jerusalem, he won international recognition for his efforts to instill Holocaust awareness among Palestinian youth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718456462-JSS9Y3MXXW3RWF8CPFBF/Wedad+al-Bakr.png Members - Wedad al-Bakr وداد البكر Wedad al-Bakr is a popular Saudi graphic artist. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibits in over a dozen countries. Through the 'We Project' initiative, she has forged powerful relationships with international NGOs in order to faciliate the use of art as a bridge-building tool in post-conflict environments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718465502-A9M0RK0VRZT7NCBF7OPN/Kaiser+al-Sultany.png Members - Kaisar al-Sultany قيصر السلطاني Kaiser al-Sultany is the editor in chief of the European Observatory to Combat Radicalization and Terrorism. Born and raised in Baghdad, he emigrated to the Netherlands 25 years ago, where he still resides. A journalist by education, he has worked as a correspondent for numerous Iraqi and Arab TV channels. Al-Sultany has also cultivated deep ties to the Iraqi-Jewish diaspora community in Europe and has been a principled advocate for the repairing the fractures between them and their ancestral homeland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718470374-FHELD3YYGIRAKWVNBYA0/Noamane+Chaari.jpg Members - Noamane Chaari نعمان الشعري Residing in Tunis, Chaari is a popular poet, writer, and liberal activist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718475277-Y1B1M96S9TN7CGL9UJT2/Ahmed+Salim+1.png Members - Ahmed Salim أحمد سالم Ahmed Salim is the managing editor of the politics section of Sada ‘l-Balad, a popular Egyptian satellite channel, and former director of Dream TV. He has a distinguished career in journalism, having headed the 'Political Islam' desk at the Al-Watan and al-Bawabah daily newspapers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718488896-YA7OTO33RICNY2BK6AMF/Abdullah+al-Sawalha.png Members - Abedallah al-Sawalha عبدالله الصوالحة Residing in Amman, Sawalha leads the country’s Center for Israel Studies. No stranger to Israel, he has been isolated from the broader region. His presence on the Arab Council will help spread his Center’s model to other countries in the region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718492643-RGOFADMIV0AA33O2VC7U/Jassim+Mohamed.png Members - Jassem Muhammad جاسم محمد Jassem Muhammad is the director of the European Centre for Counterterrorism and Intelligence Studies, where he also serves as a senior researcher. The author of nine books, he is an internationally recognized expert in the field of counter-terrorism and intelligence. Iraqi by birth and German by residence, he holds degrees from Cambirdge University in National Security studies and Baghdad University in English literature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718511225-QL4G1GFIF2G9ZQEFS4AR/Maryam+al-Ahmadi.png Members - Mariam al-Ahmedi مريم الأحمدي Maryam al-Ahmedi is a social activist and NGO director focused on women’s rights. A resident of Abu Dhabi, she previously served as a social affairs researcher for the UAE Ministry of Interior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718519184-WXN1UL2AYS4QWIUG900X/Sami+B%27aziz.png Members - Sami Baziz سامي بعزيز Sami Baziz is an Algerian journalist and editor at the Dzaïr TV channel. Resident in Algiers, he is active in efforts to preserve Algerian Jewish history and promote tolerance in his country generally. He has produced a series of video interviews about Algerian Jewish history on behalf of San Francisco-based JIMENA [Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa]. He holds an MA from Al-Jaza'ir University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718539946-55T18T89WIH28D8ERBFG/Sanaa+Wajid+Ali.png Members - Sanaa Wajid Ali سناء وجيد علي Sanaa is pursuing her PhD in social sciences at the University of Bremen. An author and civic activist, she has addressed conferences of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (Free Democratic Party) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Social Democratic Party). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718545380-JZQT4Z6Q3HVCJBTIZ8NQ/Nejib+Friji.png Members - Nejib Friji نجيب الفريجي Nejib Friji is a Tunisian diplomat, appointed in 2015 to serve as Director of the International Peace Institute’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Office in Manama, Bahrain. He formerly served as official spokesman for the United Nations missions in Yemen, Lebanon, and Iraq, as well as the Western Sahara. In July 2019 he was awarded the National Diplomatic Distinction Award by President Mohamed Ennaceur. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718551561-MYID7O8GS7LTSQTQ24R1/Tayseer+al-Alousi.png Members - Tayseer al-Alousi تيسير الآلوسي Professor al-Alousi is a deep student of the classics of Arabic literature, in which he holds a PhD, MA, and BA from the University of Baghdad. Since relocating to the Netherlands, he has served as Chancellor of Averroes University, dedicated to preserving and transmitting the humanistic philosophy of its namesake. He is also a published playwright and an experienced theatrical director. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718560210-6UGRH0Z95NCLPWC74SJB/Farida+Abbas.png Members - Farida Abbas فريدة عباس Farida Abbas is a world-renowned Iraqi vocalist with millions of fans in Iraq and across the diaspora. She is determined to restore the cultural traditions of the Jewish brothers Saleh and Daoud al-Kuwaiti -- the "George and Ira Gerswhin of Iraq" in the mid-twentieth century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718637618-BHW9A6CKGMEHGYZG31G6/Sakinah+al-Mushaykhis.png Members - Sukina Meshekhes سكينة المشيخص Residing in Dubai, Sukina Meshekhes is a full-time correspondent and anchor for the pan-Arab Al-Hurra channel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718652913-A8K4GPE17I5SCJ1HDO2R/Salwa+Seif.jpg Members - Salwa Saif سلوى سيف Salwa Saif is an activist, entrepeneur, and healer. Living in Dubai, she manages the Al-Salam Meditation Center, organizing and conducting various workshops. She is a trained practitioner versed in several disciplines of alternative medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718658554-YMF0XZB0KRRLHSQG2POP/Muhammad+Kumar.png Members - Mohammad Kumar محمد كمر An Iraqi musician active for over 40 years, Muhammad Kumar has won numerous artistic competitions. Famed for his lyrical talent and mastery of the traditional Iraqi maqamat, Kamr has been invited to give lectures about Iraqi music at universities and cultural institutions the world over, including Harvard, Belfast University, al-Yarmouk University, RASA, and elsewhere. His style was greatly influenced by the pioneering Kurdish artist Anwar Qardaghi, and has trained countless Iraqi musicians himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718668384-3DOKLGMRY9T79CD54E2D/Hassan+Chalghoumi.png Members - Hassen Chalghoumi حسان الشلغومي A Tunisian imam resident in France since 1972, Hassen Chalghoumi has been a communal leader for decades. A prayer leader at the Daransi mosque and the head of Ittihad al-Shu'ub, an organization dedicated to promoting peaceful coexistence between religions. He has been active in promoting Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation and interfaith dialogue and lobbied his native Tunisia to pass constitutional amendments that would strengthen freedom of conscience and individual rights. He is the author of numerous books and articles, and is fluent in Arabic, French and Urdu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718669605-NBJWAPXKUE7PUZMEKZNB/Oussema+Selmi.jpg Members - Oussama Selmi اسامة سلمي A stage designer by trade and a voracious reader and autodidact, Ousama envisions a joint Tunisian-Israeli technology project that would rescue his country's big cities from lethal flooding, now a routine occurrence in the country following rainstorms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718676534-SF2T14OS3Y2INZLFF49L/Saleh+Hamed.png Members - Saleh Hamed صالح حامد Saleh Hamed, a native of northern Lebanon and a graduate of al-Jannan University with a degree in Islamic Studies and an MA in Islamic thought from al-Maqasid College, a Khatib in northern Lebanese mosques certified by Lebanon's Dar al-Fatwa. Founder and Head of the Jami'yyat al-Fikr wal-Hayat. Active in interfaith dialogue. Mr. Hamed is committed to the ideals of a civil democratic state that guarantees human rights as well as to peaceful coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718683035-6RH0NZXCGRGG7FB6XZR7/Nadia+Turki.png Members - Nadia al-Turki نادية التركي Nadia al-Turki is a prominent international journalist, writer, poet and academic. She writes in three languages, and aside from Arabic, is fluent in French and English. With a deep-rooted background in the media, she is a seasoned journalist, working for Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Newspaper, Al-Arab News, Al-Majalla and the Saudi Publishing and Research Company. She is currently President and Founder of the International Academy of Media and Diplomacy (IAMD). Her work has enabled her to build a wide network of influencers and to forge professional relationships within the diplomatic and media community. She is also the executive editor and founder of 7D news. While working in the political section of the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Newspaper, she interviewed Arab and international figures in various fields. These include the late Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, the Yemeni Prime Minister, the former Libyan Prime Minister, the President of NATO, the former Tunisian President, the former Portuguese President, the British Minister for Middle East Affairs, many officials and experts from the United Nations as well as many international organizations and universities from all around the world. Al-Turki regularly participates in radio and television programs as a political analyst. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718693566-C64X12ZUF4ASR9ZZHGJU/Ismail+Muhammad+Ali.png Members - Isma'il Muhammad Ali Sayyed Ahmed اسماعيل محمد علي A journalist and activist, Isma'il Muhammad Ali has had a distinguished journalistic career in Sudan for over thirty years. He obtained his BA in literature and journalism from Asyut University before working at a number of Sudanese, Gulf, and Arab newspapers, including Asharq al-Awsat, al-Hayat, and al-Siyasah. Since 1987, he has been a member of the Sudanese Journalist Syndicate in Khartoum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddbfa5b3e9f8a6a5143cdaa/1574718698076-CDLAZ2C4CXTMO2G26J6P/%D9%90Essam+Abd+al-Samad.png Members - Essam Abdel-Samad عصام عبد الصمد Living between Cairo and London, civil society activist Abdel Samad chairs the Association of Egyptians in Europe, an Egyptian government-recognized NGO. In 2012, he participated in the writing of Egypt’s new constitution. 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