Dr Sayyed Jawad Mohammed Taqi Al-Khoei is the Secretary-General of the Al-Khoei Institute in Najaf, Iraq, a pioneering centre that combines a traditional Islamic seminary with a contemporary interfaith academy. Sayyed Jawad is a regular contributor at local and international conferences on interfaith and intrafaith dialogue. He is also UNESCO Chair for the Development of Interreligious Dialogue Studies at the University of Kufa.