{"id":34968,"date":"2023-07-24T10:06:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/4-7-february-2024-islam-and-fraternity-congress-in-abu-dhabi\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:40:58","slug":"4-7-february-2024-islam-and-fraternity-congress-in-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/4-7-february-2024-islam-and-fraternity-congress-in-abu-dhabi\/","title":{"rendered":"4-7 February 2024: “Islam and Fraternity” Congress in Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The entire congress is simultaneously translated into French, English and Arabic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Register for the congress (in person or online)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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4.30 pm<\/div>\r\n
Welcome and opening conference<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

Monday 5 February 2024<\/h4>\r\n

9 am<\/h5>\r\n
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English<\/div>\r\n
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Diego Sarri\u00f3 Cucarella<\/span>
Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome, Italy<\/span><\/div>\r\n Opening academic conference: The Document on Human Fraternity: A Roadmap Toward a Better Future or an Impossible Utopia?<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
10.00-11.30 The geopolitical stakes of the Document on Brotherhood<\/h5>\r\n \r\n
Room 1<\/h6>\r\n
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English<\/div>\r\n
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Antonio Angelucci<\/a>
University of Insubria, Como, Italy<\/span>
\r\n Human Brotherhood and sustainable development in the 2030 horizon: theological perspectives vs geopolitical strategies?<\/span>
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English<\/div>\r\n
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Flavia Cortelezzi
University of Insubria, Italy<\/span><\/div>\r\n How can governments and international organizations promote common global ambitions such as sustainable development, human rights and peace? A snapshot from EU.<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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Stephen Scalet
Trends Research and Consulting Center, United Arab Emirates<\/span>
\r\n Shifting sands of policy: geopolitics and interfaith dialogue in the Middle East<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n
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Smaine Djella
University of Algiers 3, Algeria<\/span>
\r\n The \"Human Brotherhood Paper\" and international relations theory: a new rationale for integrating the role of religion and conflict resolution<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
Room 2<\/h6>\r\n \r\n
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Dirk Ansorge
Sankt Georgen Faculty of Philosophy and Theology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany<\/span><\/div>\r\n Protection of Places of Worship\u201d in Secular Law and Religious Traditions: Theological and Legal Reflections on a Detail in the Abu-Dhabi-Declaration<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Myriam Di Marco
Universit\u00e0 della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Theology, Lugano, Switzerland<\/span><\/div>\r\n Religious as peace-building : Israel, its Jewishness and the contemporary occasions in the region of the Middle East<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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Mohamed Aldhuhoori
Trends Research and Consulting Center, United Arab Emirates<\/span>
\r\n The Abrahamic agreements as a reflection of the Emirati vision of human brotherhood<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n
11.50-13.15: The problematic reception of fraternity<\/h5>\r\n
Room 1<\/h6>\r\n
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Wael Saleh
TRENDS Research & Advisory, United Arab Emirates<\/span>
\r\n The different types of religiosity in the Arab world and their impact on the Abu Dhabi announcement for Christian-Muslim coexistence and its prospects<\/span>\r\n <\/div><\/div>\r\n
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Amin Elias
Antonine University, Baabda, Lebanon<\/span>
\r\n The notion of 'brotherhood' in contemporary Islamic thought: between conception and application<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n\r\n
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Michaela Neulinger
Institute of Systematic Theology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria<\/span>
\r\n More of the same? Reading the Document on Human Fraternity in the Context of Women\u2019s Rights<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
Room 2<\/h6>\r\n
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Jaume Flaquer
Faculty of Theology, Loyola University, Granada, Spain<\/span>
\r\n Survey on the reception of the Abu Dhabi Brotherhood Document among Islamic centres in Andalusia<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Sultan Majed Al Ali
TRENDS Research and Advisory, United Arab Emirates<\/span>
\r\n Brotherhood in the Muslim Brotherhood as an ideological antidote to human brotherhood<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n
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Ali Mostfa
Catholic University of Lyon, France<\/span>
\r\n Human brotherhood versus extremism - The challenges of a controversial principle<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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13h15<\/div>\r\n
D\u00e9jeuner - Buffet<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
2.30-4 pm: Fraternity and minority rights<\/h5>\r\n
Room 1<\/h6>\r\n
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Youssef Boutahar
\u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, France | Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco<\/span>
\r\n Redefining the notion of 'equal citizenship' in post-2011 Morocco: a critical reading of the Marrakech and Abu Dhabi Declarations<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Alessandro Ferrari
Como University of Insubria Studies, Italy<\/span>
\r\n Religious Minorities and the Human Brotherhood Paper: The New Public Responsibility of Muslim-Christian Dialogue<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Ardawan Mustafa Ismael
Salahaddin University, Iraq<\/span>
\r\n The Concept of Citizenship in the Light of the Human Brotherhood Paper: An Analytical Study<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
Room 2<\/h6>\r\n \r\n
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H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Rey
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College London, United Kingdom<\/span>
\r\n Cosmopolitanism and minority rights: moving beyond the protection of ethno-religious minorities in the Middle East<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Zohra Aziad\u00e9 Zemirli
Population and Development Center University of Paris Cit\u00e9\/IRD, France<\/span>
\r\n Full citizenship and plurality of personal status in Egypt and Lebanon<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Virgili Tommaso
Fellow of the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) - 2023\/2024, Universit\u00e9 de Tunis, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center<\/span>\r\n Freedom of Conscience in the Light of the Document on Human Brotherhood for World Peace and Living Together: The Cases of Tunisia and Lebanon<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Nada Amin
Lumi\u00e8re Lyon 2 University, France<\/span>
\r\n The Status of Christian Women in Muslim Communities: A Vision on the Implementation of the Abu Dhabi Declaration on Christian-Muslim Coexistence<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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4 pm<\/div>\r\n
Visit to the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Dinner on your own<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n

Tuesday 6 February 2024<\/h4>\r\n \r\n

9-10.45 am: Theological foundations and challenges of fraternity<\/h5>\r\n
Room 1<\/h6>\r\n
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Abdallah Hamid Al-Afri
Centre for the realisation of Arab heritage - Egypt University of Science and Technology<\/span>
\r\n The Human Brotherhood in Islamic Thought: Theoretical Perspectives<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Abdessamad Belhaj
Universit\u00e9 catholique de Louvain, Belgium | University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary<\/span>
\r\n Human brotherhood as a basis for loyalty to non-Muslims<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Marie-Dominique Minassian
University of Fribourg | Swiss National Foundation<\/span>
\r\n And the Word became a brother. Fraternity lived in Tibhirine (Algeria)<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Samir Arbache
Catholic University of Lille, France<\/span>
\r\n Human brotherhood and divine fatherhood - Theological and societal issues between Muslims and Christians<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
Room 2<\/h6>\r\n
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Romain Louge
Catholic University of Lyon, France<\/span>
\r\n For a dialogical theological brotherhood: a rereading of the document on human brotherhood in the light of early Arab theological writings<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Emmanuel Pisani
Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies, Cairo, Egypt<\/span>
\r\n The sacrament of the brother: a theological rereading of the writings of Christian de Cherg\u00e9<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Abdel Aziz Rajil
\r\n Brotherhood in the Qur'anic narrative is an introduction to human brotherhood. Joseph's brothers as a model<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Stefano Luca
Studio Teologico Interprovinciale Laurentianum, Venice, Italy<\/span>\r\n Human fraternity for world peace and living together, Christian and Muslim theologies of religions and their understanding of mission<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
11.15 am: Two-part conference<\/h6>\r\n
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Dominique Avon
\u00c9cole Pratique des Hautes \u00c9tudes, Paris, France<\/span>
\r\n Azharis, representations of Christianity and the vagaries of the Islamic-Catholic dialogue (1940s-2010s)<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Jean-Jacques P\u00e9renn\u00e8s
Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies, Cairo, Egypt<\/span>
\r\n From the Nostra Aetate Declaration to the Abu Dhabi Document. Rereading a historical and theological trajectory in the Catholic approach to Christian-Muslim dialogue<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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12.30<\/div>\r\n
Lunch - Buffet<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
14.00-15.30: Experience and analysis in national contexts<\/h5>\r\n \r\n
Room 1<\/h6>\r\n
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Patrice Brodeur
University of Montreal, Institute of Religious Studies, Province of Quebec, Canada<\/span>
\r\n Impact and perspectives of the Abu Dhabi Declaration for the living together of Christians and Muslims: the case of Canada\/Quebec<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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Ibrahim Gemeah
Cornell University, USA | Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt<\/span>
\r\n Islam and the Quest for Human Brotherhood: The Role of Al-Azhar in the Christian-Muslim Civil War in the Central African Republic<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Khaled Almadhani
Public Prosecution, United Arab Emirates<\/span>
\r\n The legal and social perspective of the UAE State's efforts to realize the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n
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French<\/div>\r\n
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Cedomir Nestorovic
Mannheim Executive MBA Asia Pacific<\/span><\/div>\r\n Political management of religious harmony: the example of Singapore<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n
Room 2<\/h6>\r\n
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Edouard Sonsare
\r\n Muslims, Christians and social coexistence in the family context in Cameroon<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Yanuardi Skyurur
Khairun University\r\n University of Indonesia<\/span>
\r\n Human Brotherhood in the Islamic Worldview: A Study of the Indonesian Muslim Intellectual Community<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Antonio Cuciniello
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy<\/span>
\r\n Contextualising Islam and Muslims in the Italian public school in the light of the Abu Dhabi Document<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n
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Abdassamad El-Yazidi
Central Council of Muslims in Germany<\/span>
\r\n The impact of the notion of brotherhood on the consolidation of citizenship in Muslim minority communities: Germany as an example<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n
16.00-17.15: Dialogical Issues in the Document on Brotherhood<\/h5>\r\n
Room 1<\/h6>\r\n
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Sylvestre Olivier Eves
\r\n Impact and perspectives of the Abu Dhabi Declaration on Christian-Muslim coexistence<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Benjamin Latouche
Catholic University of Lyon, France<\/span>
\r\n Intra-ecclesial dialogue for inter-religious brotherhood. What debate is possible with exclusivist currents within the Catholic Church?<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Livia Passalacqua
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy<\/span>
\r\n Brotherhood in the Bulletin of the Rib\u00e2\u1e6d es-Sal\u00e2m and its link with the Abu Dhabi Declaration on Christian-Muslim Coexistence<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Antoine Courban
Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon<\/span>
\r\n Human brotherhood as an overcoming and outcome of interreligious and intercultural dialogue<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
Room 2<\/h6>\r\n
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Wasim Salman
Pontifical Institute for Arabic Studies and Islamology, Rome, Italy<\/span>\r\n Dialogue, diversity and brotherhood in the thought of Imam Al-Tayyib<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Rita Faraj
Al-Mesbar Studies and Research Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates<\/span>
\r\n Youakim Moubarac and the Second Vatican Council: impact and reactions<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Assia Chekireb
Emir Abdelkader University of Islamic Sciences, Constantine, Algeria<\/span>
\r\n Analytical approach to the Declaration on Human Brotherhood<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
5.30 pm: Plenary session<\/h6>\r\n
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Diego Sarri\u00f3 Cucarella
Pontifical Institute for Arabic Studies and Islamology, Rome, Italy<\/span>
Wael Saleh
TRENDS Research & Advisory, United Arab Emirates<\/span>\r\n Summary and outlook<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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6 pm<\/div>\r\n
Visit to the House of Abraham<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Dinner on your own<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

Wednesday 7 February 2024<\/h4>\r\n
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8.30 am<\/div>\r\n
Visit to the city of al-'Ain<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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Dinner on your own<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\n\n