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Photo report: exploring the Lebanese religious diversity
Muslim diversity, Christian diversity: the program of the PLURIEL congress in Beirut from May 23 to 28 included many meetings to discover the religious plurality of Lebanon. Raphaël Georgy/Pluriel
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Christianity in Iraq at the turn of Islam: History & Archaeology
Call launched by Les Presses de l’Ifpo following an international round table organized on 4 and 5 May 2019 at the University of Salahaddin (Erbil, Iraq) which highlighted the interest of a collective...
Salim Daccache
Rector of Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Doctor of Literature and Philosophy and of Education.
Nadia Saad
Research assistant at the Islamic Theological Seminary of the University of Paderborn.
Issa Diab
Professor of Semitic Studies
Antoine Fleyfel
Director of the Institut Chrétiens d’Orient, Paris. Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth
Amir Jajé
Doctor in oriental studies, specialist in Shia islam.
Souraya Bechealany
Lecturer – Researcher at the Faculty of Religious Sciences – USJ
Geneviève Gobillot
Professor Emeritus, Specialisation in Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Lyon 3, Jean Moulin
Anna Hager
Chercheuse associée Post-doctorante Enseignante
Laurent Basanese
Official member of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome
Ziaka Angeliki
Associate Professor of Religion
Samir Arbache
Professeur en théologie et histoire des religions
Alberto Fabio Ambrosio
Theologian and historian of religions, specialist in Sufism
Roula Talhouk
Director of the Institute for the study of Muslim–Christian relations. Professor of theology and religious anthropology
Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar
Professor of Quranic exegesis
Malek Chaïeb
Research fellow at CECR
Claudio Monge
Director of DoStI (Centre for Dominican Studies in Istanbul).
Michel Younès
Professor of Theology and Islam Studies
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