Sheikh Ghassan Manasra

Sheikh Ghassan Manasra is ordained as a Sheikh in the Qadriyya-as-Salaam Sufi Order of the Holy Land, and is a successor of Sheikh Muhammad Hashem al-Baghdadi, the late Grand Sheikh of Qadriyya of the Middle East. The International Ambassador for the Abrahamic Reunion, Sheikh Ghassan has been a professional peacemaker in Israel / Palestine for 35 years, founding several peacebuilding organizations and risking his life time and again to stand with his brothers and sisters of all faiths for peace and friendship.

David Shahabuddin Less

David Shahabuddin Less has taught meditation, conflict resolution, and interfaith dialogue for over 40 years. For the last decade, he has been the vice president of the Universal Worship, an organization in over 30 countries that honours the commonality in all religions and respects their differences. He promotes understanding instead of blame as a path to peace in the Holy Land via the Abrahamic Reunion, an international, interfaith peacemaking nonprofit he helped cofound in 2004.

Trustees for Abrahamic Reunion England

Michael Macy

Michael Macy is a former U.S. Diplomat having retired as a member of the Senior Foreign Service.  He served in the UK, Mali, Malta, Saudia Arabia, Afghanistan, India, Haiti and Tunisia.  His career focused on building bridge between communities and countering extremism.  He is an expert in strategic communications planning and project design and implementation. He has extensive experience managing exchange programs including as Chair of the U.S./UK Fulbright Commission and has worked with musicians, writers, dancers, comedians, actors, journalists and academics and a wide variety of cultural institutions to develop mutual understanding between diverse groups.

Michael also has been a counsellor, trial lawyer, and public relation executive.

Along the way, he has developed some understanding of spiritual traditions. He was a student of the late Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan for twenty-five years, and studied with Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Christians, and indigenous teachers.

Amanda Kenton

In 2015 Amanda and her husband, Michael joined a tour of The Abrahamic Reunion’s charitable activities in Israel.  They then decided to establish a UK branch  to help meet the compelling need for education, inspiration and action in promoting inter-religious harmony in our multi-faith society.

In the light of the increasing danger of religious extremism in our society, they have more recently placed special emphasis on presentations and workshops in prisons, in which it is often the first time that many of the prisoners have met a religious leader of a faith other than their own who is able to give peaceful interpretations of the religious teachings. The response has been heartening and enlightening. In July 2019, they completed training in counselling for prisoners, certified by The Kinship Activity

Jenny Nemko

Jenny Nemko, the founder of TalkMatters, first became involved in projects that bring Palestinian and Israeli Jewish people together when looking for “good news” stories in the Middle East for BBC Radio. This was followed by years of supporting such projects. Jenny is the former Chairwoman and current Trustee of Oasis of Peace UK.

Jenny is increasingly mindful that many UK Jews, Christians and Muslims to whom the region has special significance know little about the initiatives that TalkMatters promotes. TalkMatters aims to provide information that often goes unheard in the media. Inspiring stories of the various grassroots projects that encourage Jewish and Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, as well as Palestinians resident in the Palestinian Territories to meet and talk together.