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An Ibn Rushd Lecture with the ex-President of Tunisia Dr Moncef Marzouki, Prof Dr Udo Steinbach and Manal Seifeldin. What distinguishes the 21st century from the previous centuries and especially from the 20th century? What facts and realities should we relate to? How do we understand our world today and what is the role that […]
Continue ReadingDear Friends of Freedom of Thought, The discourse on promoting the concept of a multi-cultural society is considered an urgent endeavor to encourage plurality, tolerance, fight discrimination, and foster a peaceful, prosperous social environment in all contemporary societies. In Western societies, a multi-cultural discourse is asserted within a modern secular paradigm in the writings of […]
Continue ReadingThe Ibn Rushd Prize 2022 therefore calls for:
an institution or a person who fostered or protected religious freedom in their region or country – including the freedom from religion and the possibility of choosing another religion, as well as the freedom from the obligation to marry within the same religious group – and therewith not only countering all kinds of sectarianism as well as the abuse of power by political and religious authorities, but fostering pluralism, tolerance and peace within society.
The person’s or institution’s work must have fostered and protected religious freedom sustainably for all, not only for specific individuals or specific groups in a society.
Reading Canon of Arabic literature On behalf of Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought we embarked on this project Afdal ma qara’t in 2018 to promote good reading within the Arabic world. Twenty-nine intellectuals and personalities of the Arab world, included one German, contributed to this project. The list contains 378 titles: 234 literary […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to the next event of the online version of our ongoing [zait wa: zaʕtar] Festival of Palestinian Arts and Culture! For the next upcoming lockdown weekend, we prepared a the screening of Kamal Aljafari’s film ‘Recollection’ for you, together with the artist talking with the festival’s film curator Nahed Awwad.
Continue ReadingThe Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene. Weaving together their lives on and off the track, SPEED SISTERS takes you on a surprising journey into the drive to go further and faster than anyone thought you could.#zaitwazaatarberlin#SpeedSisters
Continue ReadingWelcome to the next event of the online version of our ongoing [zait wa: zaʕtar] Festival of Palestinian Arts and Culture! For the next upcoming lockdown weekend, we prepared a the screening of Kamal Aljafari’s film ‘Recollection’ for you, together with the artist talking with the festival’s film curator Nahed Awwad.
Continue ReadingThe Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought mourns for Reem Banna, who left us today, Saturday March 24, 2018. Through her moving music and her emphatic lyrics, the Palestinian singer brought the pulse of the Palestinian people and of all other Arab peoples to the world. With her musical oeuvre, she supported the Palestinian […]
Continue ReadingThe Ibn Rushd Fund learned with great sorrow about the death of the Algerian-born philosopher Mohammed Arkoun. The great Arab intellectual died Tuesday night, September 14th, at the age of 82 in Paris, where he had taught the history of Islamic Thought at the Sorbonne University. In his late years he also taught Applied Islamology […]
Continue ReadingThe Ibn Rushd Fund mourns the death of the Arab thinker Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid The Ibn Rushd Fund learned with great sorrow about the the death of the Egyptian thinker Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid, honorary member of the Ibn Rushd Fund and winner of the Ibn Rushd Award 2005. His death creates a vast […]
Continue ReadingThe Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought, an organization founded by Arab intellectuals in Germany, appeals to EU-governments and the United Nations to intervene immediately in order to stop the violation of human rights in the Gaza strip. We do not regard the 2005 withdrawal of Israeli troops and settlers from the Gaza-strip as […]
Continue ReadingCopy to the Attorney General of Egypt Dear Sir, We would like to give our opinion on behalf of Mr. Abd al-Karim Nabil Sulaiman Amir, who is being trialed on the 22nd February 2007 at an Egyptian Court. According to our opinion and the opinion of many Egyptian intellectuals this trial is an injury to […]
Continue ReadingTo Prof Gerhart President of the American University of Cairo AUC 113 Kasr El Aini Str. CAIRO EGYPT Dear Mr. President, Febr. 5, 1999 it has been brought to our knowledge, that your University is presently undertaking measures against Samia Mehrez, Professor of Modern Arabic Literature at the American University of Cairo, and highly qualified […]
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