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Edward E.
Curtis IV (Millennium Scholar of the Liberal Arts and
Associate Professor of Religious and American Studies at Indiana
University–Purdue University Indianapolis) "African American
Muslim Reactions to Islamism and the Arab Cold War." 20 May
2008. In cooperation
with the Royal
Scientific Society (RSS). 54th RIIFS lecture.
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Dr Patrice C Brodeur (Associate
Professor and Canada Research Chair on Islam, Pluralism and
Globalization, Faculty of Theology and the Science of Religions,
University of Montreal, Canada)
"Multiculturalism, Interculturalism and Pluralism: Lessons
and Challenges, the Case of Canada and Beyond."
6 December 2007. In cooperation
with the Canadian Embassy in Amman and the Jordan Institute
of Diplomacy. 53rd RIIFS lecture.
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Wael El-Gayar
(Division for Religious Communities and
Cultural Dialogue, the German Ministry of
the Interior) "Islam in Germany:
Integration of Muslims and the German
Conference on Islam." (in English).
9 May 2007. In cooperation with Goethe-Institut
Jordanien and Jordan Institute of Diplomacy.
52nd RIIFS lecture. |
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Father
Jean-Michel Poffet, O.P. (Director of the French Biblical and
Achaeological School in Jerusalem)
"Quand l’Archéologie
Bouscule les Croyants: Bible et Histoire (When Archaeology
Confuses the Believers:
Bible and History)."
(in
French).
23 April 2007.
In cooperation
with
The Embassy of Switzerland in Amman. 51st
RIIFS lecture
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Alia
Hogben
(Executive
Director of the Canadian Council of
Muslim
Women (CCMW))
"Multiculturalism and Muslim Communities in
Canada:
The Case of Muslim Women".
12 March 2007. In cooperation with the
Jordan Institute of Diplomacy. 50th RIIFS
lecture.
Press Clippings:
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Dr
Michael Spath
(Professor
of Religious Studies, Indiana
University-Purdue University Forth Wayne,
Indiana Founding Member,
Institute for the
Study of Christian Zionism
Director,
Middle East Peace Education Project) "In
the Beauty of the Lilies:
Civil Religion, Manifest
Destiny and
American Middle
East Foreign Policy"(in
English). 7 March 2007. In cooperation with the
Jordan Institute of Diplomacy. 49th RIIFS
lecture. |
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Professor Jean-Pierre Filui (Institute
of Political Studies in Paris, France), “Franco-Palestinian
Relations until the Oslo Accords,” (in
Arabic). 19 February 2007. In cooperation
with the
French
Cultural Centre in Amman and the Jordan
Institute of Diplomacy. 48th
RIIFS lecture. |
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Professor Michael
Robinson (Centre for Tourism and Cultural
Change, Faculty of Arts & Society, Leeds
Metropolitan University, UK), “Tourism
and Inter-Cultural Dialogue: Translation,
Transformation and Spaces of Belonging.”
2 February 2007. Key-note lecture, the “Shifting
Boundaries”
workshop, organized by the Centre for
BritisShifting
Boundaries.htmh Research in the Levant (CBRL), Amman
in collaboration with the Royal Institute
for Inter-Faith Studies under the patronage
of HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal. |
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A seminar entitled
“The Study of the History of Religions: A Catalyst for
Intercultural Understanding.” 5 December 2007. Under the
patronage of HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal and within the framework
of the Romanian Cultural Days in Jordan, organized by the Royal
Institute for Inter-Faith Studies and the Embassy of Romania. At the
Royal Cultural Centre. |
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Professor Akbar S. Ahmed
(Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies American University in
Washington DC, USA),
Islam in the Age of
Globalization:
Who Speaks for Islam Today?. 5 March 2006 . In
cooperation with the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy. 45th RIIFS
lecture.
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Dr. L. Michael Spath
(Religious
Studies Program, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne,
USA),
Transgression as
Enlightenment: Longing and Union in Ikkyu (Zen Master) and Rumi. 12 July 2005. In
cooperation with the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy. 44th RIIFS
lecture.
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Professor Bernard Sichère
(Professor of Philosophy Université de Paris 7 (René Descartes),
France). Science, morale et religion Religion,
Ethics and Science (الدين، الأخلاق والعلوم).
22 June 2005. Embassy of France in Jordan and the Jordan Institute
of Diplomacy (JID). 43rd RIIFS lecture |
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Rachid Benzine, (Researcher and
Writer, Member RESEA (Religions, Sociétés et Acculturations),
Université de Lyon II), Milestone in the
Reading of Qur’anic Texts and Inter-Religious Dialogue, 8
June 2005. In cooperation with the Embassy of
France in Jordan and the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy (JID).
42nd RIIFS lecture. |
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Mr. John Gay
Yoh (Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa,
Pretoria- South Africa), Sustaining the Peace Agreement in Sudan:
Prospects and Challenges. 9 March 2005. In cooperation with the
Jordan Institute of Diplomacy (JID). |
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| Professor Louise Cainkar (Senior Research Fellow and Sociologist,
The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), The American Experience and Globalization Intersect: Increased Religiosity and Islamic Revival Among Second Generation Arab Muslims in Chicago.
5 October 2004. In cooperation with the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy
(JID).
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| Professor Michael Humphrey (Head of the School of Sociology & Anthropology University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia),
Trophy Shots or Torture on the Road to
Freedom. 23 August 2004.
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Dr.
Katharine Scarfe Beckett
(Visiting Scholar), The
Earliest Western Ideas about
Arabs and Muslims. 18 August 2004. |
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Dr.
Deborah L. Wheeler.
(Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, The Henry M.
Jackson School of International Studies, The Center for Internet Studies,
University of Washington, Seattle, USA and Research fellow at the
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford - UK), The
Internet in the Arab World: Digital Divides and Cultural Connections.
16 June 2004. In cooperation with the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy (JID). |
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Professor Mary Ann Tetreault
(Una Chapman Cox Distinguished
Professor of International Affairs, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA),
Contending Fundamentalisms: Religious Resurgence in the Modern World.
26 May 2004. In cooperation with the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy (JID). |
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| Prof.
Brannon M. Wheeler (Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilization at the University of Washington, Senior CAORC Fellow,
American Centers for Oriental Research in Amman,
Research Fellow,
Multi-Country Fulbright in Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and
Author of numerous books and articles on Islam), Arab Prophets and the Tombs of Giants.
20 April 2004. In cooperation with the Jordan Institute of
Diplomacy (JID).
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Professor Bernard Sichère
(Professor of Philosophy, Université de Paris 7 (René Descartes), Paris)
Epiphanie Chrétienne, Epiphanie Coranique “Christian Epiphany,
Qur’anic Epiphany”. 30 March 2004. In
cooperation with The French Cultural Center and the Jordan Institute
of Diplomacy (JID).
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| Professor James Allan
(Keeper of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, The University of Oxford,
Oxford),
Cultural Interchange: The Oriental and Islamic Collections at the Ashmolean Museum.
1 March 2004.
In cooperation with the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy.
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Professor Ralf Elger
(Visiting Professor, University of Graz, Austria
& University of Bonn, Germany), Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Father of Dialogue Between East and West,
7 May 2003. In cooperation with Goethe Institute in Jordan.
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Imam Yahya Hendi
(Chaplain, Georgetown University, Washington
DC), Islam in the USA: American Muslims after September 11th,
6 June 2002.
In cooperation with the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy.
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Professor Fritz G. Wallner (Faculty of Human and Social
Sciences, University of Vienna), Globalization
Revised: A New Vision of a World Culture, 15 April 2002. In cooperation with the Jordan Institute of
Diplomacy. |
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Dr.
Antony T. Sullivan
(Center for Middle Eastern and
North African Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Clashes, Cultures and Conversations: The West,
the Islamic World and the Search for a New Beginning, 2 April
2002. In cooperation with the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy. |
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Professor
David Forte (Cleveland University,
Ohio), Comparative Religion and Radicalism, 27 February 2002.
In cooperation with the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy. |
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Professor Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Faculty of Economics and
Administration, University of Malaya, Malaysia), Asian Values and
the Clash of Civilizations, 18 February 2002. In cooperation
with the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy. |
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His
Excellency Mar Bawai Soro (Bishop of Western California &
General Secretary of the Assyrian Church of the East Commission on
Inter-Church Relations and Education Development), The Church
of the East, 4 November 2001. In cooperation with the Jordan
Institute of Diplomacy. |
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Dr.
Axel Havemann
(Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie
Universität,
Berlin), Historical Myths in Lebanon: History-Writing between
Confessional Identity and National Coalescence in the 20th Century,
2 May 2001. |
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Dr.
Mahmoud Ayoub
(Chair of Islamic Studies, Temple University,
Philadelphia), Interfaith Dialogue and Religious Tolerance and
Reconciliation, 7 January 2001. In cooperation with the American
Center and the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy. |
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Professor
May Seikaly
(Wayne State University,
Detroit) hosted a
round-table discussion on her research into Palestinian
displacement, 21 November 2000. In cooperation with the Binational
Fulbright Commission in Jordan. |
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Dr.
L. Michael Spath
(Fulbright Fellow at RIIFS), Thirteenth-Century
Lessons for Muslim-Christian Dialogue, 27 April 1999. In cooperation
with the Binational Fulbright Commission in Jordan. |
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Professor
Geza Vermes
(Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies, University
of Oxford; and Director, Forum for Qumran Research, Oxford Centre
for Hebrew and Jewish Studies), The Sacrifice of Abraham in Judaism,
Christianity and Islam, 13 April 1999. |
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Dr.
Konstantinos D. Politis
(Special Curator, Deir
`Ain `Abata Excavations,
British Museum), Ancient Arab, Greek and Jewish Communities on the
Dead Sea: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Jordan, 3 October
1998. In cooperation with the Embassy of Greece. |
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Dr.
Fawaz A. Gerges
(Sara Lawrence College,
New York). America and Political
Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests? 2 August 1998. In
association with the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy. |
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Dr.
Bassam Tibi
(Professor and Director, Department of International
Relations, University of Göttingen), Islamic Minorities in
the West: Between Ghetto and Integration (in Arabic), 4 June 1998.
In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut. |
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Professor
Dr. Annemarie Schimmel
(Bonn, Germany), Sufism and Its Role
in Western Culture and European Thought, 25 April 1998. |
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Professor
Theodore Zeldin
(St. Antony's College, Oxford), Options and
Priorities for the Future: How Not to Repeat the Mistakes of the
Past, 13 December 1997. |
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Professor
Anatoli Gromyko
(President of the Policy Evaluation Centre at
the Russian Academy for Sciences; and Vice-President of the National
Centre for Geopolitics), Russia and the Countries of Islam, 1 October
1997. In cooperation with the Higher Council for Science and Technology,
the World Affairs Council and the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy. |
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Metropolitan
Georges Khodr
(Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Mount Lebanon),
The Christians in Arabism (in Arabic), 18 September 1997. |
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Professor
Gerald Obermeyer
(Boston University), Mechanisms of Conflict
Control in Multicultural Communities, 29 July 1997. |
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Dr.
Averil Cameron
(Warden, Keble College, Oxford), Interfaith
Relations in the First Muslim Century, 22 July 1997.
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Rev.
Dr. Habib Badr
(Head of the National Evangelical Church, Beirut),
The Development of the Evangelical Church in the Arab Countries
(in Arabic), 8 July 1997. |
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Professor
George Saliba
(Columbia University), a series of three lectures
on the Transmission of the Greek Sciences to Islam, 19-21 May 1997.
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Professor
Geza Vermes
(Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies, University
of Oxford; Director, Forum for Qumran Research, Oxford Centre for
Hebrew and Jewish Studies), The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Greatest Hebrew
Manuscript Discovery after Fifty Years, 9 April 1997. |
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Professor
Bernard Lewis
(Princeton University), Westernization and
Modernization,
26 February 1997.
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Mr.
Saifuddin al-Qasir
(Agha Khan Imamite Shi`ite Council in Syria),
The Isma`ili Sect and the Institutions of the Imamate (in Arabic),
16 September 1996.
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Professor
John Davis
(Warden, All Souls College, Oxford), The Anthropology
of Suffering, 31 August 1996.
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Dr.
Tarek Mitri
(World Council of Churches), The World Council of
Churches and the Muslim-Christian Dialogue (in Arabic), 25 July
1996.
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Professor
Michael Gervers
(University of Toronto), Medieval Rock-Cut Churches
in the Mediterranean World, 17 July 1996.
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Dr.
George Brook
(University of Manchester), The Jordanian Dead
Sea Scrolls, 9 April 1996. |
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Professor
Bernard Lewis
(Princeton University), The Jews of Islam,
14 February 1995.
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Professor
Albrecht Noth
(Hamburg University), The Covenant of Omar: A
Historical Assessment, 14 August 1994.
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