Islamic Culture Foundation 

Naqsh
Source: Nafas Art Magazine
Naqsh is a Persian word meaning copy and model, yet also role. Copies, models and roles – and breaking out of them: these are the subjects of the Naqsh exhibition at the Museum for Islamic Art on the top floor of the south wing of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
On display are […]

The great palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, has left us last saturday 9th. We have choosed this article to remember his life and his deep, human poetry.
I am not mine
Mahmoud Darwish: The Expropriated Poet 
By Serene Huleileh
Born on 13 March 1941 in Al Birweh, a quaint village in the Galilee, Mahmoud Darwish went on to live a […]

Anna Lindh Foundation
5 August 2008
A Lebanese Photographer, as the winner of Anna Lindh Award for Dialogue
Rima Maroun, the young Lebanese photographer, has been officially announced as the winner of the Anna Lindh Euro-Med Award for the Dialogue between Cultures in 2008.  The Award, which is bestowed and voted on by the members of the Anna Lindh […]

By Margot Badran
10 February, 2006
Countercurrents.org
I gave a talk in Cairo in 2002 titled: “Islamic Feminism: What’s in a Name?” There I explored the paradigm shift in feminism occurring within the Muslim umma at various locations during the 1990s that Muslim observers led in the process of naming Islamic feminism (see Al-Ahram Weekly, 17- 23 January, […]

By Elena López Cuenca
Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI)
Commented by Professor Robert Hillenbrand
The purpose of this work is to account for the subject matter of the Hadith Bayad manuscript in the Vatican Library (Arab. 368) . Special attention will be paid to the elements that were borrowed from the Mesopotamian school as well as the indigenous and […]

The exhibition entitled Science in the World of al-Andalus has opened on July 22 in Vila-seca (Tarragona, Spain) under the joint sponsorship of the Islamic Culture Foundation (Fundación de Cultura Islámica, FUNCI) and the Fundaciò “La Caixa”.
This is a roving exhibition which has already been brought to several cities in Spain and is curated by Cherif […]

Karen Armstrong’s “Mohammad: A Prophet for Our Time”
By Rajai Masri 
True spirituals refrain from sweeping generalization and the traps of self-righteous judgmental conclusions in the full cognizance of human’s cognitive limitations, the short span of human’s life and the unfathomable expanse of an extended universe. True that certain mortals are endowed with exceptional intuitive powers that […]

Beyond al-Qaeda, Beyond al-Qaeda, Moroccans and Spaniards seek lost Andalus
By Sinikka Tarvainen
Rabat, Morocco (dpa)
In 1492 - the legend goes - Abu Abdallah Mohammed XI reined in his horse on a rocky outcrop overlooking the distinguished city of Granada. The Moorish king, also called Boabdil, had just handed over the keys of the last Muslim bastion […]