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

During a study trip organized by the French NGO Œuvre d’Orient, which supports the activities of the IDEO, a visitor asked Jean Druel, O.P: What would change if we did not exist? This is a relevant question, if not a bit thorny. For it is true, what would it change?

Dear friends, For several months, in Cairo, bridges have sprouted up like mushrooms. They are sometimes so close to the houses that on days of traffic jams, coffee could be served to the drivers from the balconies. At the IDEO, the idea of bridges is somehow our philosophy because we

Dear friends, Intended by King Fuʾād, the so-called 1924 Cairo edition of the Qurʾān was published under the scientific authority of an al-Azhar committee. It has become so popular throughout the Arab world that it is often considered to be the standard edition of the Qurʾān. Thus, it has become