This Winter at the Center
Events this Winter at the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding:
Wednesday, 31 January 2007
Lecture: "Christian-Muslim Relations: Promise and Peril" by Senator Mushahid Hussain of Pakistan
Mushahid Hussain is one of the leading figures in Pakistan and is also known in the larger Muslim World. He has been a government official, journalist, author, and academic and political analyst. Elected a member of Pakistan’s national parliament in 1997, Mushahid won reelection as Senator in 2003. He currently chair's the Pakistan Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is also Secretary General of Pakistan Muslim League and a member of the world-wide 9-member Council on Eminent Persons of the Organization of the Islamic Congress. Mushahid holds a Master's degree from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Friday, 9 February 2007
Lecture: "A Big Bang, Big Chrunch Theory of Islamic Religious History" by Professor Richard Bulliet
Richard Bulliet is a professor of Islamic History at Columbia University. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1962 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1967. His is the author of The Patricians of Nishapur: a Study in Medieval Islamic History (1972), The Camel and the Wheel (1975), Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History (1979), Islam: the View from the Edge (1994) and The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (2004). He edited Under Siege: Islam and Democracy (1994) and The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century (1998), co-edited The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (1996), and co-authored The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History (1997).
Monday, 12 February 2007
Lecture: "Christians and Muslims Woking for Peace in the Holy Land" by Rev. Naim Ateek
The Rev. Naim Ateek, is a Palestinian Anglican priest and the founder and director of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem. In 2006, Rev. Ateek was presented with the Episcopal Peace Fellowship’s John Nevin Sayre Award in recognition of his leadership at Sabeel and for his efforts to engage western churches in the work for justice and peace between Palestinian and Israelis. He is the author of Justice and Only Justice: a Palestinian Theology of Liberation and editor and contributor of Challenging Christian Zionism: Theology, Politics, and the Israel-Palestine Conflict, a compilation of papers from Sabeel’s international conference in Jerusalem in April 2004. Ateek also publishes a quarterly theological journal, Cornerstone, circulated in many countries.
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