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Religious Meetings & Activities (2007)

 


RELIGIOUS STUDIES UNIT MEETINGS (2007)

   All meetings were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA


12 December 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: Islamic and Interfaith Religious Ethics in World Crises
Participant: Cecelia Lynch, Associate Professor, Political Science Director, CGPACS, Center of Global Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California, IRVINE, USA.

 

 

27 October 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: Islam and Politics
Participant: Katerina Dalacoura, Lecturer in International Relations, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.


15 September 2007, Ambassador Hotel, Jerusalem
Topic: Celebrating Ramadan Iftar
Speakers: Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Chairman of PASSIA, Jerusalem
Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine
H.E Archbishop Fouad Twal
Participants: Ali Ayed; Asem Ababneh; Nader Asr; Sameh Nabil Said; Joerg Ranau; Jorge Torres Pereira; Dr. Ercan Ozer; Richard Makepeace; Lehlohonolo Shadrack Ted Pekana; Jean-Paul Ghonem; Tim Petschulat; H.E Ambassador Heikki Hannikainen; Fr. Shawki Baterian; Gabriel Morin; Bishop Munib Younan; Fr. Housam Na’oum; Father Dr. Anba Abraham; Fr. Malki Murad; Gousan Torjman; Fr. Atallah Hanna; Emil Jarjou’i; Bernard Sabella; Mazen Qubti; Sami Abu Dayyeh; Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib; Sheikh Jamil Hammami; Shiekh Ishaq Abdul Jawad Taha; Eng. Mohammad Nusseibeh; Eng. Adnan Husseini; Mazin Sonukrot; Dr. Mustafa Abu Sway; Ahmad Hashim Zughiar; Hatim Abdel Qader; Ibrahim Al-Joulani; Dr. Raifiq Husseini; Ahmad Rwaidi; Jamal Abu Tou’meh; Dr. Eyad Hallaq; Abdul Qader Husseini; Dr. Nazmi Ju’beh; Dr. Sulayman Ghosheh; Dr. Basim Abu Assab; Haj Abed Abu Diab; Jibril Rijoub; Azzam Abu As-Sou’od; Munib Al-Masri; Omar Baitar; Marwan Abu Zuluf; Dr. Sabri Saidam; Nasser Qudweh; Imad Farrah; Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi.

 

 

5 September 2007, PASSIA, Ramallah
Topic: The Muslim between Faith & Politics
Speaker: Jamil Hamami, Lecturer, Al-Quds University
Participants: Hazem Qawasmi, GTZ; Adnan Husseini; Ibrahim Joulani, B. Man; Asad Sinnokrot, Gen. Man. Security Co.; Mohammad Hussein, Mofti of Jerusalem & Palestine; Jorge Torres Pereira, Representative of Portugal, Ramallah; Mustafa Abu Sway, Lecturer, Al Quds University; John Lynch, Political Officer, European Commission; Jerome Drevon, Student/ Intern; Erik Abild, Student; Egu Bjornsen, University Teacher; Michelle Pace, Research Councils UK Research Fellow; Raed Awashreh, Executive Manager; Chris Merritt, British Consulate, Jerusalem; Fadi Abdul Razeq, Training Coordinator; Eman Abu Sway, Manager; Ghazaleh Arar, Teacher.

 

 


5 September 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: Jerusalem and the Holy Places
Speaker: Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Chairman of PASSIA, Jerusalem
Participants: Group from the Church of Sweden's Information Department and International Secretaries: Group from the Church of Sweden's Information Department and International Secretaries: Ella-Britt Eriksson, Policy Adviser; Karin Hollmer, Communication Officer; Mattias Carlsson, Policy Adviser; Iréne Holmström Wiborg, Program Director Communication; Lasse Bengtsson, Communication Officer; Peter Andersson, Lutheran Deacon; Marie Körner, Secretary of International Affairs; Maria Lundström, Editor Public Relations; Daniel Bramsell, Press Secretary; Rickard Bonnevier, PR and Communication Manager; Louise Andersson, Communication Officers Assistant; Kajsa Kvarned, Lutheran Pastor; Helena Kedja, Communication Officer; Inger Hägg, Deacon; Roland Asplund, Communication Officer; Britt-Marie Helgesson, Lutheran Pastor; Lena Bergquist, Press officer; Mats Lagergren, Communication Officer; Maria Eddebo, press Officer; Thomas Janfalk, Communications Officer; Emelie Simmons, Communications Officer; Mogens Amstrup Jacobsen, Lutheran Pastor; Hiba Abu Arafeh, Program Coordinator, STI; Hikan Bengtsson, Director.



29 August 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: Muslim-Christians Relations and the Question of Jerusalem
Speaker: Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Chairman of PASSIA, Jerusalem
Participants: Thomas Wenski, Bishop of Orlando; Thomas M. Garofalo, Country Representative, CRS Europe, Middle East, Jerusalem; John Carr, Secretary of the Department of Social Development and World Peace in the USCCB, Washington; Sister Elizabeth Worley, Diocese of Orlando.

 

28 August 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: Islamic Issues
Participant: Sherifa Zuhur, Research Professor of Islamic and Regional Studies, Strategic Studies Institute, USA

 

23 August 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: The Christian Theology of Liberation
Participant: Samuel Kuruvilla, PHD Student, Exeter University, UK




20 August 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: The Question of Jerusalem and Holy Places
Speaker: Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi
Participants: Center for Jerusalem Studies at Al Quds University, Jerusalem: Saed Mashal, Teacher. Center for Jerusalem Studies, Jerusalem ; Laura McFarlane, Student; Akram Salhab, Student; Vivian Korsten, Coordinator Arabic Course; Thalia Veintimilla, Student; Miranda Hurst, Student; Dawn Richardson, Co-director of a Hostel; Nicolas Fulton, Student; Ilana Pinshaw, Administrator; Ann Ward, International Health Participate Research (Conflict Culture); Jerome Drevon, Student/Intern.

 

13 August 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: Interfaith Dialogue
Participants: Ms. Pamela Scholey, Secretary Dev. Group in Ottawa, Canada; Mr. Teije Hidde Donker, Conflict Research Unit Clingendael in The Hague.


17 July 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: Salafism: School of Thought in Islam; from Theological Discourse to Political Activism
Speaker: Dr. Mustafa Abu Sway, Director of Islamic Research Center, Al-Quds University
Participants: Chris Meritt, Diplomat, British Consulate; Jamal Al-Aref, Deputy Director, ANERA; Jumana El-Aref, Student; Frans Makken, Head, Representative of the Netherlands; Mohammed Nuseibeh, Member, Higher Islamic Council; Adnan Husseini, Islamic Council; Ramon Ansoain, General Consul of Spain, Jerusalem; Dr. Ercan Ozer, Ambassador, Turkish Consulate, Jerusalem; Tariq Hilal, Student; Samer Nuseibeh, Engineer; Tova Scherr, Student; Sheikh Jamil Hamami, Lecturer, Al-Quds University; Jorge Torres Pereira, Representative Office of Portugal, Ramallah, Amjad Shihab, Political Teacher. Jerome Drevon, Student; Haj Abed Abu Diab, Adviser; Shaina Chejna, Student, Christine Seisun.

Download Paper: Salafism From Theological Discourse to Political Activism
By Dr. Mustafa Abu Sway

 

 

15 May 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: Vision of PASSIA on Interfaith Dialogue
Participants: Jeanne Abdulla, Cordaid, The Netherlands

 

12 May 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: Wasatia (Middling or Midpoints) in Politic, Society and Religion
Speaker: Dr. Mohammad Dajani, Al-Quds University ( Related presentation )  
Participants: Jamil Hamami, Lecturer; Amjad Shehab, Lecturer; Adnan Husseini, Engineer; Lecturer; Yousef Dajani, Director of Jerusalem Electric Company; Dr. Abdel Rahman Abbad, Lecturer, Bethlehem University; Mohammed Nusseibeh, Engineer; Nabil Kayali, Director, Bridge International; Fadel Tahboub; Munther Dajani, Dean of Arts, Al-Quds University; Ishaq Budeiri, Arab Studies Society; Fouad Dakkak, Engineer; Mahmoud Barakat, Trader; Zenah Barakat, Student; Bashar Al Azzeh, Student; Haitham Hab Romman, Engineer; Ala' E'layan, University Student; Suhad Atrash, Employee; Murad Bustami, Student; Muneer Barakat, Trader.

 

5 May 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: Jerusalem and the Holy Places
Speaker: Dr. Mustafa Abu Sway, Director of Islamic Research Center, Al-Quds University
Participants: Terry Bullata, Advocacy and Lobbying Coordinator, PARC; Jamil Hamami, Lecturer, Al-Quds University; Najeh Daoud Bkeirat, Islamic Waqf Office; Dr. Arafat Hidmi, Makassed Society, Jerusalem; Fouad Dakkak, Engineer; Ishaq Budeiri, Arab Studies Society; Ibrahim Al-Joulani, Trader; Nora Karmi, Sabeel; Adnan Husseini, Engineer; Mazen Sinokrot, CEO Sinokrot Group.

 

 


17 April 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: Psychology, Culture and Religion
Speaker: Dr. Tim Williams, Psychologist, New Zealand ; Dr. Mustafa Abu Sway, Al-Quds University .
Participant(s): Dr. Dirk Moses, Historian; Naser Ideis, Information Specialist; Roz Willey, MS UN;Dr. Fadia Daibes, Representative Dan Church Aid; Valerie Feron, Journalist Vatican Radio; Fouad Dakkak, Engineering Management Consultant; Mazen Nuseibeh, Teacher; Mutasem Awad, Head of International Palestine Red Crescent.

5 March 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: Hamas and the ‘Al-Soufia’
Participants: Khalid Hroub, Researcher, Oxford University, London, UK.

 

6 March 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: Religious Dialogue
Participants: Researchers from the Church of Sweden: Dr. Göran Gunner; Ms. Anne Louse Eriksson; Dr. Hanna Stenström.

 

 

06 February 2007, PASSIA, Jerusalem
Topic: Non-Violent Political & Social Activism: Application to the Palestinian Case within its Political, Economic, Social and Religious Context.
Speaker: Dr. Bernard LaFayette,
Director of the Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island, US.

Participant(s): Stacy Barrios, Cultural Affairs Office; Amjad Shihab, Al-Quds University; Bishop Dr. Munib Younan, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jordan & the Holy Land; Dr. Avi Melech Ben Israel, Educator; Tarek Abu Ata, Director Love the Neighbor; Suzan Nammari, Senior Cultural Affairs Specialist, American Consul General; Mais Zuhaika, Project Officer, Youth Sector; Fouad Dakkak, Engineer; Jamal Al-Aref, Deputy Middle East Representative, ANERA; Rev. Sharon Key, Certified Nonviolence Trainer; Lina Masrouji, Assistant DGM, Jepharm.

 

 

 

 


RELIGIOUS STUDIES UNIT CONFERENCES (2007)
 :: All conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA)

 

20 May 2007, Grand Park Hotel, Ramallah

Topic(s):

Second Conference on
Islam in Contemporary Palestine


 

"المؤتمر الثاني "الإسلام في فلسطين المعاصرة

Organized by:  (PASSIA) Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Jerusalem

See Program (in English)

برنامج المؤتمر باللغة العربية 

Photos

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

One aspect of the work of PASSIA’s Religious Studies Unit is research and publication. In 2007/08, the Unit embarked on a special research project on Palestinian Holy Siteswhich aims at listing Holy Sites and describe their reli­gious significance as well as their Biblical/Qur’anic origins and references, and which is hoped to serve as a guide to the mosques, churches, burial places, and other sites of worship in historical Palestine. Work on this endeavor has proceeded with several researchers (mainly Christine Seisun and Michael Sadleir) who helped identify, compile and organize relevant materials. Proofreading and final editing is still pending, however, since the publishing priority was waved in favor of a publication on Islamic Culture (see below), which was demanded by several organizations for use in local educational and religious institutions. It is hoped that work on the book on Holy Sites can be completed and printed within the next year.

Also as part of its publication program, PASSIA finalized the editing of a publication on Jesus.

Jesus in the Christian and Muslim Faiths
English, 58 pages, Dec. 2007


It forms part of a series of monographs dealing with religious figures which PASSIA has published over the past few years. So far, editions on Abraham, Moses, Joseph and have been produced.

The book on Jesus contains the proceedings of a workshop held under the same name, which discussed one of the most passionately told and perceived narratives in Christianity as well as in Islam, i.e., that of Jesus Christ, or Isa Ibn Maryam: his birth, his words and deeds, his disciples and followers and his mother, the Virgin Mary. The publication commissioned two versions of Jesus’ story by Christian (Father Rafiq Khoury from the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem) and Muslim (Dr. Mustafa Abu Sway from Al-Quds University in Jerusalem) scholars to help understand people's beliefs in Jesus and the special places they hold in both the Holy Qur'an and the Bible.
Work on a third publication - Introduction to Islamic Culture - was also completed. The publication is presented as a text book to be used in universities and elsewhere and contains 12 academic papers dealing with subjects such as History of Islam, Faith in Islam, The Concept of Sunna and Hadith, The Islamic Economy, Women in Islam, Islam and other Monotheistic FaithsIslam and Science, and Arabic Language and the Islamic Culture.

Introduction to Islamic Culture
مدخل الى الثقافة الاسلامية
Arabic, 181 pages, May 2008.
Edited by Dr. Mustafa Abu Sway
Introduction by Dr. Mohammed Salim Al-Awwa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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