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‘Amr Khālid has had a remarkable march to fame as a dā‘iya.
In an interview with al-Musawwar, the Commissioner for Dialogue with the Islamic World and Intercultural Dialogue at the German Foreign Ministry responds to many questions pertaining to issues of globalization and Arab-West dialogue.
Alistair Crook succeeded in holding unprecedented meeting in Beirut on March 21-22 where American personalities close to decision-making circles in U.S and leaders or representatives of some Islamic movements in the area attended the event. The conference was just an occasion for a real and direct...
The US started dialogue with Middle Eastern political Islamic groups. These dialogues are usually not public, and hosted in Arab or European capitals. Beirut hosted a secret meeting calling for the necessity of dealing with moderate political Islam.
The controversial thinker Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid arrived to Beirut as head of the Arab Institute for Renewing Thought, which was inaugurated yesterday. More than 100 thinkers, researchers and academics have come from Europe and the U.S. to join Zeid in launching the institute. Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid...
What is the story of the Arab Institution for Ideological Modernization which initiated its activity recently in Beirut with a conference attended by up to 130 Arab intellectuals? What is the reason for appointing the controversial Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid chairman of the Institution? Is there any...
Maxime Rodinson died last week at the age of 89. Perhaps this is the opportunity to defend the French Orientalist from Arab accusations and the subsequent marginalization of his role and works. While Cairo protested his book about the Prophet Muhammad thirty years ago, the Beirut publishing house...
The Tunisian writer Al-Taher Labib is the manager of the Arab Institution for Translation that has been working actively in Beirut since three years. “It is not an exaggeration if I said that only ten percent of the books translated from Arabic can be accredited. Most of the translations cannot be...
The article is an interview with Dr. Ali Al-Samman, the Deputy of the Permanent Committee for Inter-Religious Dialogue. Issues discussed in the interview include inter-religious dialogue, acts of violence, extremism, the relation between the Arab World and the West.
Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid does not like to be presented as the oppressed or the exiled intellectual. In his writings, he confirmed that the aim of his discussions and questions is “not doubting the validity but attempting to understand.” He untiringly calls for “the freedom of research, discussion and...

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