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Re: المؤتمر العالمي للتسامح و المحبة بأوسلو .. (صور.. و صوت و دهشة) (Re: fadlabi)
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أبدأ بالتعريف ببعض الضيوف المشاركين .. تعريفهم أنقله من موقع بيت الآداب بأوسلو..
Elias Khoury (b. 1948) is a Beirut born novelist and critic, today one of the leading intellectuals in the Arabic world. His novels are translated into a number of languages. He is presently chief editor of Al-Mulhaq, the cultural weekly supplement to the biggest newspaper in Lebanon, An-Nahar. He is also a guest professor in Arabic and comparative literature at the New York University. His most renowned work is Gate of the Sun (in Norwegian in 2004), a critically acclaimed and awardwinning novel about the fate and history of the Palestinian people.
Amin Maalouf (b. 1949) born in Beirut within the minor community of Christian melkites, journalist and writer, emigrated to France in 1976. Maalouf gave up his journalist carreer (in particular exerted in the Lebanese daily newspaper An-Nahar, and later in Jeune Afrique) to devote himself entirely to writing. He is the author of many novels which have as a framework the Middle-East, Africa and the Mediterranean world. Among these, The Rock of Tanios brought him the Goncourt Prize in 1993. In his books he builds bridges between East and West. «When one lived in Lebanon, the first religion which one has, is the religion of coexistence.»
Tariq Ali (b. 1943) is a world-famed historian, author, film maker and political activist. He has been engaged in international debate since the Vietnam war. His fiction includes a series of historical novels about Islam. His non-fiction includes The Clash of Fundamentalisms (2002), Conversations with Edward Said, Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror and Speaking of Empire and Resistance (all from 2005). Ali is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and contributes articles and journalism to magazines and newspapers including The Guardian, the London Review of Books and the New Left Review.
Hoda Barakat (b. 1952) is a Lebanese author, now living in France. In 1976 she broke off her PhD studies in Paris to return to her native country and work as a reporter, translator and teacher during the Lebanese civil war. Her first novel, The Stone Laughter, is the first literary work in Arabic with a homosexual man as a main character. She has won the Naguib Mahfouz Prize and the Al-Naqid Prize, and her books are translated into many languages, including Norwegian this coming autumn.
Dr. Mustafa Ceric (b. 1952) has worked as an imam and professor in Islamic theology in Croatia, Malaysia and USA. He is today the supreme religious leader of the Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Grand Mufti of Bosnia, Sanjak and Slovenia and is also an important spokesman for Muslims of all nations living in Europe. In 2003 he received the UNESCO Felix Houphoet Boigny Peace Prize for Contribution to World Peace. He has also received other awards – The International Council of Christians and Jews Annual Sir Sternberg Award for his contribution to dialogue and understanding across religious borderlines.
Heba Raouf Ezzat is an Egyptian political scientist at the Cairo University, and a considerable contributor to the think tank Institute for Islamic Thoughts in Cairo. She is interested in Muslim relations to modernity and human rights, in dialogue between faiths and society in general. Ezzat is an exponent for the Islamic renaissance with focus on values and tradition, while at the same time she is a keen supporter of development and equality. On IslamOnline, which she is editing with her husband Ahmed Mohammed Abdalla – and which is visited about 20 million times a year – she is justifying and defending women’s use of veil, for one thing.
Amira Hass (b. 1956) is an Israeli author and journalist. She is renowned for her column in the newspaper Ha’aretz, where she gives her reports from her daily life in Gaza and on the West Bank. Hass visits Palestinian precincts to enhance the understanding in Israeli general public, and she has for many years been the only resident Israeli journalist in the occupied regions. In 2000 she won the award Press Freedom Hero from The International Press Institute, and in 2003 the UNESCO/ Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom prize. She has also published the books Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land and Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land.
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