Category Archives: News

FUNCI was present at FITUR 2024

On January 25, the Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI) was invited to participate in FITUR with [...]

CEMI at FITUR fair. A tour of Islamic Madrid

On January 25, the Center for Studies on Islamic Madrid (CEMI), created by de Islamic [...]

Sheikh Hamad Award 2023 for FUNCI

On 13 December 2023 was held in Doha (Qatar) the ninth edition of the Sheikh [...]

The Islamic funerary question in Spain. The case of Zaragoza

Last 18th January the news of the discovery of an ancient Islamic necropolis in the [...]

Amazigh women, guardians of language and culture

The complex landscape of language politics of Tamazight and Literary Arabic, influenced by French colonialism, [...]

Al-Andalus: Multiculturalism, Tolerance and Convivencia

By Dr. Mohamed Chtatou 10/05/2021 Settled in the Iberian Peninsula since the eighth century, the [...]

Cherif Abderrahman Jah and the “Gardens of al-Andalus”

The Qur’anic Botanic Garden (QBG), a member of Qatar Foundation (QF), has launched its ‘Gardens [...]

Islamic tapestry with figurative scenes

In Islam, figurative designs are, at the least, unadvisable. Some of them, as is the [...]

The Mawlid Celebration (1438 – 2016)

During these days, a big part of the Muslim world will celebrate the Mawlid or [...]

FUNCI participates in actions for dialogue

In the course of the last month representatives of FUNCI attended two important meetings: first, [...]

FUNCI launchs a Mediterranean Landscape Convention

The Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI) in the framework of its program Med-O-Med Cultural Landscapes for [...]

Anna Lindh Foundation and the situation in Gaza

* The Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) expresses its concern and deep anxiety about what has [...]

A new training on conflict resolution

As a follow-up to previous Euro-Mediterranean Youth Workshops organised in 2007, a Handbook compiling good [...]