The Shuma Project

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, a religion

and culture research association. Salem promotes

and encourages the use of Islamic and Christian

moral values as the basis for prosperous societies. Salem has been

invited to various places of learnings and international conferences,

where he has spoken before audiences that included members of the

U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C.

He holds a Ph.D. from the Religious Studies Department at GTF, a

master's degree from the Yale University Divinity School and Bachelor

of Science Degree in Engineering from the University of California at

Berkeley. Salem is the author of three books. (1) Missing Peace (2) The

Holy Land. (3) The Peace of Jerusalem, published by Westbow Press.

Other backgrounds:

Salem, an Egyptian American Engineer and researcher, spent

a career in engineering, and real estate development in California's

Silicon Valley. In California, he assembled a group of representatives of

various faith communities to promote trust-building and joint ventures.

The group produced a related white paper that has gained support from

various social and civil society organizations and Stanford University.

Salem currently lives with his wife and five children in Windsor,

CT, USA.