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Speakers

NamePosition/InstituteCountry
Abdel Dayem Mohamed Abdel Rahman Nosseir
Professor of Physics in Al-Azhar University.
 Egypt
Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri
Director General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)
 Saudi Arabia
Adel Iskandar
Adel Iskandar is a media and communication scholar with a focus on the Arab world and Middle East.
 Canada
Ahmed Shawky
Professor of Genetics, University of Zakazik, and Head of the Biotechnology and Genetics Committee at the High Council of Universities.
 Egypt
Ahmed Hussein
Program Manager, NM Yahoo! Maktoob Partnership for Social Entrepreneurship
 Egypt
Ahmed M. Darwish
Minister of State for Administrative Development
 Egypt
Alan Baker
Associate Dean, International Projects & Administration, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts
 USA
Ali Gomaa
The Grand Mufti of Egypt.
 Egypt
Ali Eldin Helal
Professor of Political Sciences, Cairo University
 Egypt
Amany Asfour
President of Cairo Chapter at Organization of Women in Trade, President at Egyptian Federation of Business & Professional Women (BPW-Egypt), President at Egyptian Business Women Association
 Egypt
Amr Mahmoud El-Shobaki
The Head of Arab European unit in Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo, Egypt.
 Egypt
Anissa Essam Hassouna
The Director General of Egypt’s International Economic Forum.
 Egypt
Azyumardi Azra
Professor of history and Director of Graduate School, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta, Indonesia
 Indonesia
Azza El-Kholy
Professor of American Literature and is currently the Chairperson of the English Department at Alexandria University
 Egypt
Barbara A Shailor
Deputy Provost for the Arts, Yale University.
 USA
Christopher Dubia
Technology Consultant to Qatar Foundation International
 USA
Cindy Quezada
Life Sciences Specialist and AAAS Diplomacy Fellow.
 USA
Cynthia Schneider
Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, Senior Non Resident Fellow, Brookings Institution, and former Ambassador to the Netherlands.
 USA
Dalia Mohamed Ibrahim
Vice President Nahdet Misr
 Egypt
Dina Shehata
senior researcher at Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies
 Egypt
Elias Kasrine El-Halaby
Director of Inter-Church network for Development and Relief (ICNDR)
 Lebanon
Farah Pandith
Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of State.
 USA
Farida A. Allaghi
CEO Mentor Arabia
 Libya
Fatema Aly Khafagy
Gender and human rights consultant to UNDP, and to ESCWA in Egypt and the rest of Arab countries and to The European Commission and the Swedish Institute in Alexandria
 Egypt
Ferry de Kerckhove
Canadian Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt.
 Canada
Gaber Asfour
Head of the National Translation Foundation in Cairo, Egypt
 Egypt
Guilan Wang
Assistant Provost of Global Affairs and Director of the Spiegel Center for Global and International Programs at Roger Williams University (RWU).
 USA
Heba Nassar
Professor of Economics, Vice President Cairo University since 1st of August 2008.
 Egypt
Hisham El-Sherif
Founder & Chairman of IT Investments
 Egypt
Hoda El-Mikaty
Founder and current president of the North Africa and Middle East Network of Science Centers (NAMES)
 Egypt
Hossam Badrawi
Professor in Cairo University, Medical School
 Egypt
Howard Gordon
Showrunner/Executive Producer of the hit series 24
 USA
Ibrahim Negm
Senior advisor to Sheikh Ali Gomaa, The Grand Mufti of Egypt.
 Egypt
Ismail Serageldin
Director of the Library of Alexandria.
 Egypt
John J. Grefenstette
Director of the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory in the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh.
 USA
Karen Torjesen
Dean of the School of Religion at Claremont Graduate University and developed programs in inter-religious studies and fostered international partnerships for exchanges of students
 USA
Katerina Ragoussi
Associate Director for Youth and Network Coordination Religions for Peace.
 Greece
Katherine Marshall
Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue
 USA
Khaled Abolnaga
Egyptian actor, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
 Egypt
Magda H. Zaki El-Toulouny
Manager of the department of the Dialogue among Civilizations, the League of Arab States
 Egypt
Magdy Nagi
Professor in the Computer and Systems Engineering Department
 Egypt
Magued I Osman
Chairman of the Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) , Egyptian Cabinet of Ministers.
 Egypt
Maha Mostafa Shahbah
Supervisor of Dream TV reporters, a media lecturer and an independent filmmaker
 Egypt
Michael M. Cernea
Research Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University
 USA
Mohamed Younis
Senior Analyst, Gallup Center for Muslim Studies in Washington, D.C.
 USA
Mohamed Hanno
Board Member, Alexandria Business Association (ABA)
 Egypt
Mohamed Ihab Sherif El-Masry
Associate Professor, Construction and Building Engineering Department, Collegeof Engineering and Technology, the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT)
 Egypt
Mohamed Kamal Eldin Emam
Professor of the Islamic Shariah in the Faculty of Law-University of Alexandria.
 Egypt
Mohammed Abu-Numeir
Director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute
 Palestine
Mohammed Bensalah
Expert at the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)
 Morocco
Nadia Oweidat
Ms. Oweidat is a pursuing a doctorate in Oriental studies at Oxford University
 USA
Naif A. Al-Mutawa
Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa is a Kuwaiti clinical psychologist and creator of THE 99, the first group of comic superheroes born of an Islamic archetype
 Kuwait
Najmedin Meshkati
Professor at the Department of Civil/Environmental Engineering and at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California (USC).
 USA
Neda Sarmast
Music management, marketing and PR, in order to shift her focus towards playing a positive role in her community
 USA
Noha Adly
Professor in the Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University
 Egypt
Omar Offendum
A Hip-Hop Artist.
 USA
Omneya Darwish
Deputy Director for CSSP
 Egypt
Peter Frederick Weller
An American film and stage actor
 USA
Raghida Dergham
Raghida Dergham is Columnist and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent and for the London-based Al Hayat, the leading independent Arabic daily, since 1989
 Lebanon
Rashad Hussain
Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
 USA
Roland Schatz
Founder and CEO of Media Tenor Ltd
 Switzerland
S. Abdallah Schleifer
Distinguished Professor of Journalism at American University in Cairo
 USA
Salam El-Kawakby
Senior Researcher in the Arab Reform Initiative in Paris
 Syria
Salman Ahmed
Doctor by training and a rock musician by profession, United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for HIV/Aids
 Pakistan
Sara E. Farley
Chief Operating Officer, Global Knowledge Initiative.
 USA
Seham El-Foreih
Professor of Literature and Criticism in the Kuwait University
 Kuwait
Shamil Idriss
Executive Director of the Alliance of Civilizations Media Fund which merged with Soliya in 2009
 USA
Sherif Omar
Dean of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
 Egypt
Sherif Kandil
Professor in Materials Science, The High Studies & Researches Institute, Alexandria University.
 Egypt
Stephen R. Grand
Fellow and Director of the Saban Center at Brookings’ Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World.
 USA
Tala Nabulsi
Project manager for Youth for Change
 Jordan
Vivian Lowery Derryck
Dr. Derryck is the President and C.E.O. of The Bridges Institute, a non-profit she launched to strengthen African governance and leadership through global partnerships for social development
 USA
William Vendley
Secretary General of Religions for Peace International. He coordinates the activities and projects of Religions for Peace’s 70 national and five regional councils.
 USA
Zeinab M. El-Maadawi
Kasr Alainy School of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt
 Egypt
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