Michael Muhammad Knight is a scholar, author and gonzo journalist whose work covers Islamic studies, American Islam, hadith literature, gender studies, race and theories of the body.

Irene Khan is the United Nations’ special rapporteur for freedom of opinion and expression and an advocate for human rights who formerly led Amnesty International. Contact is through the U.N. Office for the High Commissioner on Human Rights.

Nawara Aboud is a graduate researcher at University College, Oxford. Her expertise revolves around the politics of ethnicity, violent conflict, peace-building and post-conflict transformation. In particular, her research focuses on the political trajectories that countries take in the aftermath of civil wars and the economic, social and political dynamics that drive them.

Grisel D’Elena is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of international relations at Florida International University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she is an adjunct professor. She has performed fieldwork abroad with U.N. officials, refugee coalition members and ethnic minorities, specifically in Southeast Asia, where she began to investigate the Rohingya Muslim ethnic […]

Terje Østebø is a professor at the University of Florida. His research interests are on Islam in contemporary Ethiopia, Islam, politics, and Islamic reformism in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, Salafism in Africa and Christian-Muslim relations.

Muslim-Christian and Interfaith Marriage Support is a network run by and for interfaith couples offering resource packs and a regular newsletter.

Francesco Cerchiaro is assistant professor in the gender and diversity department at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He researched how Christian-Muslim families navigate cultural diversity.

Dalia El Ariny researches the intersection of multiple identities in interfaith families. Born into an Italian-Egyptian, Catholic Muslim family, El Ariny’s research focuses on the everyday experiences of mixed-faith families in London. She is also the founder of My Mixed Heritage, a welcoming social space for individuals with mixed-faith backgrounds to connect, share experiences and […]

Amanullah De Sondy is head of the study of religions department at University College Cork, Ireland. De Sondy has also been appointed as visiting honorary Islamic studies scholar at the University of Melbourne 2024. He is a regular source on broadcast television in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia and Europe, speaking to issues related to […]