Advisory Board

Soliya has recruited a diverse network of leaders to advise and guide Soliya’s development and growth. The Advisory Board members include:

  

Muna AbuSulayman – Host of MBC talk show Kalam Noua'em and Executive Director for the Kingdom Foundation

 

Dr. Sheikha Abdulla Al-Misnad – President of Qatar University

 

Deborah Amos – Foreign Correspondent for National Public Radio in Iraq

 

Dr. Hossam Badrawi – Former Chairman of the People's Assembly Education/Scientific Research Committee of the Arab Republic of Egypt

 

Raghida Dergham – Senior Diplomatic Correspondent & New York Bureau Chief for Al Hayat Newspaper

 

Dr. John Esposito – Georgetown University Professor and Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

  

Dr. Abdul Hamid Hallab – Director of Understanding Contemporary Islam & Special Advisor to the President of the American University of Beirut

 

Ambassador Martin Indyk – Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and Former Ambassador to Israel

 

Rami Khouri – Director of the Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut and Former Executive Editor of the Daily Star in Lebanon

 

John Marks – Founder and President of Search for Common Ground

 

Ahmed Sheik – Editor-in-Chief of Al Jazeera

 

His Royal Highness Prince el Hassan bin Talal – Founder of the Arab Thought Forum and the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies in Jordan

 

Dr. Shibley Telhami – Anwar Sadat Professor at the University of Maryland, and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution

 

Ambassador Edward S. Walker – Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and Ambassador to Egypt, Israel & the U.A.E.

 

Dr. John Zogby – President & CEO of Zogby International