Shoaib Mohammad Sultan is the General Secretary of the Islamic Council of Norway. He holds a Bachelor in international relations and a MBA degree, both from Colorado State University. He has earlier workeds as the senior information officer at the European Council of Religions Leaders. Shoaib has written a number of articles on integration, islam

Lena Larsen is a research fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway, writing a thesis titled “Fiqh Facing Everyday Challenges: Fatwas as Solutions for Muslim Women in Western Europe”. She also works on the project Ethical Guidelines for Muslim Family Law within the framework of the Oslo Coalition of Freedom of Religion or Belief (see