Islamic Culture Foundation 

By: Tariq Ramadan
The eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency have accustomed us to so many errors, lies, wilfull distortions and political manipulation. Let us hope that a page is turned in the history of the United States. Since September 2001, the Bush regime has been obsessed by the “global war against terrorism” and the […]

12th international seminar forum unesco, university and heritage
5-10 april 2009. Hanoi, Republic of Vietnam
The theme of the 12th International Seminar of Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage (FUUH) is both ambitious and crucial to the future of heritage conservation as well as to the development of communities, cities and civil society at large.
The Historic Urban Landscape […]

The exhibition World Ceramics: Masterpieces from the V&A will open as the finale to-the Damascus Arab Capital of Culture 2008 activities 
 
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London,  boasts the largest ceramics collection in existence.
This touring exhibition is a rare opportunity to see 116 of the greatest treasures from the V&A’s world renowned collection while the […]

By: Umesh Desai
International Herald Tribune
The global credit crisis presents the $1 trillion Islamic finance industry with an opportunity to expand its appeal beyond Muslim investors, as a haven from speculative excess.
The message may have particular resonance in the West after the crumbling of the U.S. mortgage market left banks holding hundreds of billions of dollars […]

By: Dr. Iman Al-Ghafari
Islamic Culture Foundation
Travel is a culturally enriching activity, and a liberating experience. In a flush of enthusiasm for an alien and exotic world, many male and female travelers have undertaken the project of writing about Damascus. Despite the fact that Damascus exists to a large extent in Travel literature and in […]

As a follow-up to previous Euro-Mediterranean Youth Workshops organised in 2007, a Handbook compiling good practices (theoretical background and practical exercises) for trainers on Conflict Resolutions and Cultural Cooperation, is being elaborated
and published in three languages (English, French and Arabic), organised by the Anna Lindh Foundation, the Council of Europe, and the European Centre for […]

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 […]

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, […]