Wendy Yee Mei Tien is a senior lecturer and currently, holds the position of Director for the Center for Internship Training and Academic enrichment at the University of Malaya. She received her PhD (2008) in youth studies from the University Putra Malaysia. She also obtained a certificate in Inter...

Yudhistir Govinda Das is an ordained monk, spiritual teacher and Country Director of Communications for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in India. Yudhistir holds a graduate degree in communications and journalism and a postgraduate diploma in intellectual property law. A...

Yulianti Muthmainnah has more than 13 years’ experience in areas related to women and human rights issues. She teaches at the Muhammadiyah University of Prof. Dr. Hamka, Jakarta and is a researcher at KAPAL Perempuan (the Circle of Alternative Education for Women). Yuli completed six years in Indo...

Yusuf Daud earned his first scholarship for a Master of Science from the University of Indonesia in the International Affairs Middle East and Islamic Department in 2005 and his second for a Master of Philosophy and Islamic Mysticism from ICAS London in 2006. He has published four books on religion, ...

Zaid Bahr Al-Uloom is a PhD candidate in Islamic sciences at the Islamic University of Lebanon, and a researcher at the Bahr al-Uloom Institute in Najaf, Iraq.   He was born in Baghdad in 1981 and graduated from high school in Najaf in 1999. He joined Al Hawza (a religious academy) in 2001 and dur...

The Venerable Esika Zawti was born in 1981 in a village in rural Myanmar. He received his monastic education in Buddha’s teaching in the town of Myingyan, Mandalay, Pyay (Prome) and Yangon and received the Sasanadhaja Dhammacariya degree, and in 2005, continued his studies at Sampurnanand Sanskrit...

Zon Vanel is a lecturer at the Public Relations Program of the Information Technology Department at Satya Wacana Christian University in Central Java, Indonesia. She holds a master’s degree in mass communication studies and is actively involved in research at the university and community services ...

ZAF Wazniya Pasha graduated with First Class Honours as an Attorney at Law from the Sri Lanka Law College in 2001 and completed the Master of Human Rights and Democratisation programme at the University of Colombo in 2019. She is a practising Notary Public and Company Secretary, as well as volunteer...