After two years without a celebration of Mawlid due to COVID-19, on Tuesday November 22ⁿᵈ Egyptian Sufis from towns and villages, both near and far, came to Islamic Cairo in the tens of thousands to celebrate the birth of Ḥusayn, whose head is believed to rest in the shrine of

The Council of Muslim Elders chaired by Imam Ahmad al-Tayyeb met once again, in Bahrain, in the presence of different religious denominations to discuss the issue of coexistence and East-West dialogue. The director of the IDEO was present, invited by the Delegation of al-Azhar. There he met Fr. Fadi Daou,

Tunis, Brothers Jean, Emmanuel, Dennis and Adrien. The Forum Insaniyyat, a social sciences forum in which four members of the IDEO participated, was held in Tunis from September 20ᵗʰ to 24ᵗʰ, 2022. It opened with a fundamental question: the crisis. But as Professor Jocelyne Dakhlia, historian of the Maghreb, remarkably

Closing night on the Nile, language summer session 2022 The International Forum of Social Sciences and Humanities (Insaniyyat) will be held from September 20ᵗʰ to 24ᵗʰ, 2022 in Tunis. Several researchers from the IDEO will be present and four of us will lead an “IDEO Workshop” in which we will

The notion of otherness crosses all social sciences today; it is therefore not surprising that Islamic Studies are also interested in it. It must be said that there is a topicality of otherness. It is linked to the awareness, since the Second World War, of the drama of the Shoah

Every year in June, the Delegation of the European Union in Lebanon awards the Samir Kassir Prize to journalists for the quality of their work and their commitment to human rights and democracy. For this 17ᵗʰ cycle, 261 journalists from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria,

The price of bread has soared from the bowels of the Nile Valley. Then the thud of the cannon sounded and an atmosphere of serenity enveloped everything during this month of Ramadan. With ongoing lectures and seminars, we lived to the rhythm of ifṭār-s and prayers. And yet, blood also

In the contiguity of the light, in the twilight celebration where one lets himself be lulled by musical sounds, we sense an inner and outer power that announces the sun of tomorrow, that of the origin, that of the desert, that of peace. Salam, a delivered word, an exchanged word,

The 53ʳᵈ Cairo International Book Fair ended with the memory of evenings dedicated to poetry and Arabic calligraphy, and multiple educational suggestions for the youngest. We were delighted by these wonderful initiations. However, as we walked through this prodigious maze of corridors strewn with mounds of books, we wondered if

Happy are the Islamic Scholars who probe the literature of lovers! Simply open the edition of Leyli and Majnûn which has just been published to understand that it is not a rhetorical bliss. What a beautiful book, and how the translation is fine, subtle, poetic, inebriating, touching. It is signed