Soliya

"We are proud to announce that Soliya has merged with the UN–established Alliance of Civilizations Media Fund. Our mission remains the same but our resources, networks, and capacity to achieve it have received a major boost. "

Board
Accessed February 2011:


 * Suhail Rizvi Chairman of the Board
 * Adam Berrey Vice Chairman of the Board
 * Yasmin Alireza
 * Jim Berk
 * Liza Chambers Co-Founder & Chief Program Officer
 * Jeremy Goldberg
 * Shamil Idriss - CEO
 * Anthony Limberis
 * Dalia Mogahed
 * Farhad Mohit
 * Robert H. Pelletreau, Jr.
 * Elizabeth Riker
 * Dina Sherif
 * Kaleil D. Isaza Tuzman
 * Lucas Welch Founder & Chief Innovation Officer

Advisory Board
Accessed February 2011:


 * Muna AbuSulayman – Host of MBC talk show Kalam Noua'em and Executive Director for the Kingdom Foundation
 * Sheikha Abdulla Al-Misnad – President of Qatar University
 * Deborah Amos – Foreign Correspondent for National Public Radio in Iraq
 * 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
 * John Esposito – Georgetown University Professor and Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
 * Abdul Hamid Hallab – Director of Understanding Contemporary Islam & Special Advisor to the President of the American University of Beirut
 * 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, SCG – Founder and President of Search for Common Ground
 * Ahmed Sheik – Editor-in-Chief of Al Jazeera
 * Prince el Hassan bin Talal – Founder of the Arab Thought Forum and the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies in Jordan
 * Shibley Telhami – Anwar Sadat Professor at the University of Maryland, and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
 * Edward S. Walker – Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and Ambassador to Egypt, Israel & the U.A.E.
 * John Zogby – President & CEO of Zogby International

Contact
URL: http://www.soliya.net/

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