CSID & RUMI FORUM Cordially invite you to a Public Lecture:

Muslim Christian Dialogue -- Where do we go from here?

By Abdallah Schleifer
CSID Board Member and Professor Emeritus at the American University in Cairo

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
12.00-1.30 pm - A light luncheon will be provided
1150 17th St. N.W., Suite 408
Washington, DC, 20036

Last October, 130 leading Muslim scholars and intellectuals signed off on an Open Letter to the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Eastern Patriarchs and the World Council of Churches entitled "A
Common Word" --  that Muslim and Christian theologians, religious
scholars, and clergy must come work together to prevent a "clash of
civilizations," in dialogue and ultimately a movement  based  on
shared belief in Love of God and Love of the Neighbor. In response
Yale University's Center for Faith and Culture in association with the
Princeton Theological Seminary and Harvard University are hosting an
extended  Workshop and Conference during the last week of July  in which a representative group of Muslim scholars and intellectuals  who signed the Open Letter will engage with leading Christian theologians (including leading  Evangelicals) who have publicly welcomed the Muslim initiative in an effort to air and dissipate many of the misconceptions and prejudices thatr Christians and Muslims have about each other

CSID Board Member and Prof. S. Abdallah Schleifer is participating in the Conference and will report to CSID members and friends on the
origins  and impact of the Open Word Initiative and the ambiance,
results and significance of the Yale Conference on interfaith dialogue.

The speaker is Professor Emeritus at the American University in Cairo, a Senior Fellow at the Royal Aal al Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Amman Jordan and Adjunct Scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC. He has published and lectured extensively on Islam in the contemporary world, Islamic art and architecture and
Sufism,Prof. Schleifer founded and directed the  Kamal Adham Center
for Journalism at AUC for two decades, after serving as NBC News Cairo bureau chief and Middle  East producer-reporter for 13 years. He is also the founder,,former editor and now member of the editorial board of the journal Arab Media and Society, and a former Visiting Scholar at St. Antony's College, Oxford  He was last in Washington DC in 2006-2007 serving as bureau chief of Al Arabiya satellite news
channel.