Ahmad Saiful Rijal Bin Hassan is an Associate Research Fellow with the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS). His research interests are political Islam, religious rehabilitation and community engagement. He completed his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Islamic Jurisprudence from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt and obtained his Master of Science in International Relations from RSIS. He also obtained a Career Certificate in Legal Translation in both Arabic and English at the American University in Cairo. He also serves as a religious counsellor of the Religious Rehabilitation Group (RRG), a voluntary group which works towards rehabilitating Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) detainees and self-radicalised individuals in Singapore.
