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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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FUNCI in a Campus of Excellence for environment
The Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI), through its International Cooperation Programme Med-O-Med, Cultural Landscapes of the [...]
Jun
The Med-O-Med Station, by Manuel Ocaña
In our Programme Med-O-Med, cultural landscapes of the Mediterranean and Middle East we have created [...]
May
The absence of evidence for banning burqas
Are arguments in favour of the French ban supported by any actual evidence, and what [...]
Apr
The Anna Lindh Journalist Award 2011
Deadline: 15 July 2011 The 2011 Edition of the Anna Lindh Journalist Award, created by [...]
Apr
Women Scholars of Hadith
History records few scholarly enterprises, at least before modern times, in which women have played [...]
Apr
L’art islamique à Rabat
La Villa des Arts de Rabat organise une rencontre sur l’art en pays musulmans. L’art islamique né en orient, a [...]
Apr
The green mosque
The Building: Problem or Solution competition, managed by Faith in Place, encouraged the creative design [...]
Mar
The Middle East feminist revolution
Among the most prevalent Western stereotypes about Muslim countries are those concerning Muslim women: doe-eyed, [...]
Mar
This is not an Islamic revolution
The uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia show that Islam is now less potent politically, even [...]
Feb
Imam Ghazali and the importance of character
Imam Ghazali may have lived over 900 years ago, but in the true spirit of [...]
Feb
Caribbean Muslims
The terms Caribbean and South American refer to aggregations of countries, not to specific areas [...]
Dec
The Sinjska Alka, intangible heritage
The term ‘cultural heritage’ has changed content considerably in recent decades, partially owing to the [...]
Dec
‘Hajj’ in the Past
John Lewis Burckhardt, 1814 Swiss-born orientalist, John Lewis Burckhardt travelled widely across Africa and the [...]
Nov
Peter Gabriel with Pakistan
Calling the world’s response to floods in Pakistan “pathetic,” British rock star Peter Gabriel has [...]
Nov
Istanbul, european capital of culture
Istanbul may be European Capital of Culture for 2010, but it by no means needs [...]
Oct
In fear of ‘Eurabia’
Historian says Europe has long defined itself against the threat of Islam. The images were clearly [...]
Oct
A seminar on critical islamic thougth
The Center for the Study of Intercultural Dialogues (Granada, Spain) is offering a two-week summer [...]
Sep
Urgent help for Pakistan
A humanitarian catastrophe of terrifying proportions is unfolding in Pakistan, with a fifth of the [...]
Aug
Quelques questions classiques sur le ramadan
Travaillant pour la plupart d’entre nous dans un environnement pour lequel le jeûne ne fait [...]
Aug
Arabic calligraphy in Paris
The American Library in Paris helds an exhibition on islamic calligraphy, by Abdessatar Jmei* “The [...]
Aug