Symposium on the State of West-Islamic Dialogue

Tuesday, October 16
Copley Formal Lounge, 10:30am-6:00pm

Georgetown University hosted an all-day Symposium on the State of West-Islamic Dialogue on October 16, 2007. The symposium brought together international thought leaders and public figures to address West-Islamic dialogue in its religious, political, and social dimensions.

The symposium was convened in the context of the World Economic Forum's planned First Annual Report on the State of West Islamic Dialogue. The report, a collaborative effort with Georgetown University, is slated for presentation at the Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, in January 2008.

The symposium was sponsored jointly by Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.

Panels

West-Islamic Dialogue: Religion and Values

Professor John Esposito 
Director, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University

Professor Lamin Sanneh 
D. Willis James Professor of Missions & World Christianity, Yale University

Dr. Mustapha Ceric         
Reisu-l-uleme, Grand Mufti, Islamic Community in Bosnia and Hercegovina

Dean Jane McAuliffe      
Dean of Georgetown College, Georgetown University

Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr          
University Professor of Islamic Studies, George Washington University

West-Islamic Dialogue: Education and Development

Professor Katherine Marshall             
Visiting Professor, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University

Professor Osman Bakar  
International Islamic University Malaysia

Professor Ingrid Mattson
Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, Hartford Seminary

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin      
Archbishop of Dublin
                                               
West-Islamic Dialogue: Citizenship and Integration

Professor Thomas Banchoff               
Director, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University

Professor Abdou Ansari Filali             
Director, The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations

Professor Marc Gopin
Director, Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
George Mason University

Professor Anwar Ibrahim 
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia

Professor Sherman Jackson              
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Michigan