Cordoba Initiative (CI) aims to achieve a tipping point in Muslim-West relations within the next decade, steering the world back to the course of mutual recognition and respect and away from heightened tensions.
Washington - After more than six decades of unsuccessful attempts at resolving the Middle East dispute through conventional political tracks, it has become obvious that there is a dire need for a novel approach - or a new tool - that will help resolve the long-standing dispute.
Chalk it up to the influence of his fashion model wife, perhaps, but French President Nicolas Sarkozy seems determined to put his stamp on Muslim clothing styles.
Sarkozy apparently is responding to an unease among the French about the impact of a growing Muslim population on what had once been a homogeneous Gallic culture.
President Obama said many of the right things as the turmoil surrounding the outcome of the Iranian election unfolded. After Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spoke Friday, Obama has an opportunity to make an additional crucial point.
In his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo this month, Obama impressed Muslims with his understanding of Islam. He quoted from the Quran and reminded his audience of his Muslim heritage. Never before has an American president expressed such cultural and religious awareness.
I am sitting in a non-descript classroom one evening in the historical city of Isfahan, Iran. A group of 12 women from various social classes and religious backgrounds gather to take beginners’ English some out of necessity, others for pleasure ...
O ne day, a stranger happened to be passing through the village of Mit Ghazal in Gharbeya governorate when he heard the voice of a little boy reciting Qur’an at a kuttab. The man stopped, then took the boy home, along with his tutor, to speak with ...
Editor's note: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report, filed from Cairo, is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in ...
Iran 's two-week-old "Green Revolution" is being crushed by the iron fist of state power. The million strong Iranians who turned out on the streets of Tehran last week screaming "Where is my vote?" and "Death to the dictator" have learned the ugliest ...
A REVIEW IN The Economist praises Oxford University Press’s latest English translation of the Holy Qur’an by Muhammed Abdel Haleem for managing “to transform the complex grammar and structure of the holy book into a form of modern English which ...
Virigna author John Kiser and
new Algerian Ambassador to the U.S. Abdallah Baali will be visiting Elkader, Iowa on the 11th and 12th of May, 2009. They will be touring the community and the school and will take part in various events including a welcome reception at the Elkader Public Library as well as an awards program at Central High School, Elkader, Iowa. Kiser has recently written "Commander of the Faithful …The Life and Times of Emir Abdelkader" and has been featured on various media including Iowa Public Radio, The Washington Post and The New York Times to name a few. To find out more on Kiser's radio interview and his upcoming events, click here.
There have been recent developments in the three-week intensive SIIRL summer program at Yale University. SIIRL stands for Summer Institute on Islam, Intercultural Relations and Leadership. Developments include a new co-sponsorship with Yale Center for Faith and Culture's Reconciliation Program, new course and faculty descriptions on its website as well as a new Practitioner's Track. Priority will be given to appilcations received by April 15th, 2009. Find out more here.
Dialogue Cafe is an endeavour that connects people globally through technology to discuss and solve complex global issues. 'Dialogue Cafés around the world will be linked by high definition screens so that ordinary people from different cultures can meet, talk and innovate together.' Find out more here.
The Council on Foreign Relations recently launched a new webpage initiative, titled “Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.” Acknowledging the important role that religion has in much of today’s world, this new initiative will feature stories, reports and essays on religion and foreign policy, serving as a resource for and from religious and congressional leaders, scholars and thinkers.
The 38th annual conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientisits of North Amercica (AMSS), co-sponsored with the University of Viriginia, is calling for papers on 'Islamic Traditions and Comparative Modernities.' This year's theme 'encourages a re-examination of some perennial challenges between Islamic doctrine and practice, between text and culture, between the individual and society and between theology and human history.' Abstracts are due by May 15, 2009 and the final paper is due on September 1, 2009. Be sure to check out the AMSS website for more information.
Prior to President Barack Obama's trip to Cairo, S. Abdallah Schleifer talks of the enthusiam in Egypt, the likes of which hadn't been seen since President Nixon's visit in 1974. Read the full story here.
The White House Office of the Press Secretary released a transcript of a roundtable interview of President Obama with regional reporters at Cairo University on June 4, 2009. Read the full transcript here.
The Council on Foreign Relations recently launched a new webpage initiative, titled “Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.” Acknowledging the important role that religion has in much of today’s world, this new initiative will feature stories, reports and essays on religion and foreign policy, serving as a resource for and from religious and congressional leaders, scholars and thinkers.
