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Articles
Piece of the month: the “Taller del Moro”
Throughout the month of March, thanks to the collaboration between the Centre for Studies on [...]
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CEMI’s participation in the “Medina” program of RTVE
Last January, the Centre for the Study of Islamic Madrid (CEMI), a project of the [...]
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Solidarity and sharing in the Arab-Islamic world
The Big Contradiction Amongst the topics that come up often in debates, newspapers, news, talk [...]
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Surnames of Arabic origin
The Arab legacy in the Iberian Peninsula can be seen through multiple and diverse aspects, [...]
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Leo Tolstoy’s view about Muhammad
“Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider God as [...]
Jun
1001 inventions from the Islamic Civilization
This fantastic video shows the huge scientific contribution of the Islamic Civilisation to the universal [...]
Jun
The month of Sha’aban
The month of Ramadan is about to begin, the month during which Muslims fast and [...]
Jun
Ainhoa. The eye of love
In the Arab world it is very common to use the term ‘ain’ – eye [...]
Jun
The ethics of war
Today, war, an irreparable wrong, is commited in most cases without the slightest notion of [...]
Jun
Music and performance
As part of its regular cultural activities, the Islamic Culture Foundation has coordinated different musical [...]
Mar
Botanic Garden of Al-Quds University
In 2009, FUNCI together with Al-Quds University within the Med-O-Med framework developed this 2000 square [...]
Mar
Iman Maleki: portraits of Iran
Iman was born on 1976 in Tehran. He has been fascinated by the art of [...]
Sep
Natural products used in Morocco
These are some of the most well known natural products used in cosmetics in the [...]
Apr
The etymological meaning of ‘bedouin’
The word Bedouin (bedw) is referred to the habitants of Badia (al-badia), a place [...]
Feb
The Feast of the Candles in Salé
Much of the Islamic world has just finished celebrating the ‘Mawlid’, the birth of the [...]
Jan
The only living sahabi tree
The last good fellow (sahabi) alive, this is how they call this tree located in [...]
Nov
Festival de Fès de la Culture Soufie 6ème Édition
Festival de Fès de la Culture Soufie 6ème Édition, sous le thème Sapiences soufies (hikam), [...]
Apr
Cultural colors of Morocco
The exhibition The cultural colors of Morocco, taking place in Rabat, is part of a [...]
Mar
Peace and beauty in Massoudy’s calligraphy
Hassan Massoudy is an artist for whom the word itself remains the most sublime creative force. [...]
Oct
A European guide for the well-being of pluralist societies
Migrants and their descendants, a Guide to policies for the well-being of all in pluralist [...]
Sep
Islam’s view of Nature
Islam contains an elaborate hierarchy of knowledge integrated by the principle of Divine Unity (tawhid). [...]
Sep
The tomb of Abu Madyan in Tlemcen
These are the pictures of the young algerian photographer Saadou Taleb, taken during his successive visits to [...]
Aug
Pictures of a Stone Town in Zanzibar
This is the remarkable work of an italian photographer, Paolo Evangelista, on the muslim community [...]
Jul
FUNCI in the cellebrations of Tlemcem 2011
This year we will paticipate in the cultural events organised in Tlemcen, Algeria, as it [...]
Jul