Presentation
As part of the Anawati Chair “Combating Religious Extremism through Interfaith Dialogue,” the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo, in partnership with the University of Insubria (Varese and Como), is organizing a summer school in July 2025. This program is intended for PhD students or defended their theses in 2023 or 2024, on the theme of citizenship and religious pluralism.
From an interdisciplinary perspective, the Summer School will welcome 25 students enrolled in doctoral studies or having defended their theses in 2023 or 2024, from all the universities and university institutes in the Mediterranean basin that are working on this issue within their discipline (political science, law, history, philosophy, theology, economics).
Schedule
Each student will present the current state of their research, including their research questions, hypotheses, and findings. The discussions will aim to broaden and enrich everyone’s perspectives while also creating an international network of young researchers working on this topic. Students will be asked to submit an English text summarizing their presentation, of between 1,500 and 2,000 words, by May 31, 2025.
Throughout the Summer School, five scholars from various disciplines will give presentations and facilitate discussions and exchanges during the week.
The working language will primarily be English.
General information
– Date: July 15-21, 2025
– Location: Cairo, Egypt
– Participants: 25 students and 5 professors/researchers
– Theme: Citizenship and Religious Pluralism
– Application Deadline: March 15, 2025
– Announcement of Results: March 31, 2025
– Application Email Address: summerschool-2025@ideo-cairo.org
Conditions
– Eligibility: Be a PhD student or have defended your thesis no later than January 1, 2023, at a university or institute in the Mediterranean region.
– Research Focus: The topic or theme must address the issue of citizenship and religious pluralism.
Application requirements
In a single PDF document, following the order of the documents listed below:
– A CV
– A photocopy of your passport or ID card
– A motivation letter
– A recommendation letter from your thesis advisor
– Thesis reports if the doctorate has already been defended
– Enrollment certificate for the current academic year for PhD students
– An article or a chapter of the thesis (or the doctoral project for first-year students)
Registration costs
The Chair Anawati will cover your airfare, transportation to Cairo airport, accommodation in a 4-star hotel for the duration of the Summer School, lunches, a dinner cruise on the Nile, and a cultural visit.
– For Egyptian students, the registration fee after acceptance is 500 EGP.
– For non-Egyptian students from the southern Mediterranean (excluding the European Union), the fee after acceptance is 170 euros.
– For non-Egyptian students from the northern Mediterranean (European Union), the fee after acceptance is 300 euros.
For any questions or to submit your application, please contact [summerschool-2025@ideo-cairo.org].
Academic Contributions
- Takfīr According to the Legal Thought of Contemporary Salafism. Quietists and Jihadists, A Comparative AnalysisDavid IndaPDF ↓
- Le pluralisme religieux comme norme : Dynamiques locales et globales façonnées par les acteurs internationauxCatherine BossardPDF ↓
- Translating Law, Constructing Otherness: An Introduction to Coptic Family Law Intertwining Discourse, Gender and CitizenshipElisa Barbero-ValderramaPDF ↓
- Sepharadism (1923–1998): Multiplicity of Identities between Diasporism and ZionismDamien FabrePDF ↓
- Muslim youth in Spain Beyond the Migration ParadigmRafael CamareroPDF ↓
- The Politics of Family Laws in Egypt and Tunisia: A Comparative Study of State-Religion RelationsMohamed JamalPDF ↓
- Orthodoxy in diaspora: human rights, jurisdiction, identity.Piercamillo FalivenePDF ↓
- The Egyptian experience in dialogue as a transformative forceAnwar KataiaPDF ↓
- Genre et transitions politiques : la politisation du genre en Égypte postrévolutionnaire (2011-2023)Nada AminPDF ↓
- On political confessionalism: a political history of French Mandate Lebanon (1920-1943)Pierre-André HervéPDF ↓
- Citizenship and Freedom of Belief: An Impossible Pluralism in the Islamic Context?Raja SakraniPDF ↓
- Muslim veil” and the long shadow of the Gallican churchAlessandro FerrariPDF ↓
- Islamic ThoughtAmine EliasPDF ↓
- Al-Azhar and the Egyptian ChurchHossam El-Deen AllamPDF ↓