Team

Omer Salem, Ph.D

Omer Salem is a Senior Fellow of the Foundation of Religious Diplomacy, New York City, and is the founder of the Ibn Rushd  Institute for Peace based in Egypt and the USA, an interreligious  research association. Salem promotes the use of Islamic moral values as the basis for conflict resolution. Salem has been invited  to various places of worship and international conferences, where he has spoken before audiences that included members of the  U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C. Salem is an honorary member of  the Worldwide Association of al-Azhar Graduates. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master’s Degree from the Yale  

University Divinity School and is a Ph.D. candidate at the Islamic studies department at GTF (dissertation supervised by Al Azhar University professors). 

Salem is the author of three books. (1) The Missing Peace: The Role of Religion  in the Arab- Israeli Conflict and (2) The Struggle for the Holy Land. (3) Seek the Peace of Jerusalem, published by Westbow Press.