Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought 2022
Speech of the Prize Winner Nayla Tabbara

It is an honor to be receiving the Ibn Rushd Prize for both my personal work and on behalf of Adyan, the foundation for diversity, solidarity and human dignity that we co-founded in Lebanon 16 years ago, and that has been relentlessly working for inclusive citizenship, for freedom of religion and belief, for education on […]

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Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought 2022 Welcome speech by Cora Josting (Chairwoman)

(English will be published here soon) Guten Abend meine Damen und Herren, werte Exzellenzen, liebe Freundinnen und Freunde des Freien Denkens – ich möchte Sie herzlich willkommen heißen zur 20. Verleihung des Ibn Rushd Preises für Freies Denken, heute hier im Gobelinsaal des Bode-Museum zu Berlin: herzlich willkommen, ahlan wa sahlan!Besonders begrüßen möchte ich auch […]

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Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought 2022 Welcome speech by Dr. Amani Al Siefy

(English will be published here soon) Seien Sie alle herzlich willkommen. Ich freue mich, dass Sie in so großer Zahl unserer Einladung gefolgt sind, um der Zeremonie einer Preisverleihung beizuwohnen, die sich der Unterstützung der Werte der Staatsbürgerschaft und der Demokratie in der arabischen Welt verschrieben hat. Der diesjährige Ibn Rushd Preis widmet sich der […]

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Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought 2022 Speech of to Prize Winner Saad Salloum

Fighting with a sword made of glass (English translation will be published here soon) (German): Dieser Diskurs richtet sich an eine Generation, die in einer bestimmten Zeit und an einem bestimmten Ort lebt, nämlich die Generation nach dem Arabischen Frühling und nach ISIS.Die Generation des Arabischen Frühlings vereinte unsere Völker zum ersten Mal in der […]

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Laudatory speech for prize winner Nayla Tabbara held by Prof. Elizabeth Kassab, University of Doha

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to start my laudatory speech by inviting you on a drone tour over the countries from where our laureates hail: Iraq and Lebanon. I am sure you all have seen such drone films showing the extensive destruction of cities and towns across these two countries. Massive explosions, massive environmental […]

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Ibn Rushd Prize 2022 – Freedom of Religion: Invitation to Attend on September 8th

The Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought is delighted to announce the two winners of this year’s Ibn Rushd Prize: Nayla Tabbara from Lebanon with her organization ‘Adyan Foundation’ and Saad Salloum from Iraq with his organization ‘Masarat’. The two have been named the joint winners of the 20th Ibn Rushd Prize for this year’s topic ‘Freedom of Religion’. The award ceremony will take place on September 8, 2022, in Berlin, Germany.

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Ibn Rushd Prize 2022 – Freedom of Religion: Jointly won by Nayla Tabbara from Lebanon and Saad Salloum from Iraq

The Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought is delighted to announce the two winners of this year’s Ibn Rushd Prize: Nayla Tabbara from Lebanon with her organization ‘Adyan Foundation’ and Saad Salloum from Iraq with his organization ‘Masarat’. The two have been named the joint winners of the 20th Ibn Rushd Prize for this year’s topic ‘Freedom of Religion’. The award ceremony will take place on September 8, 2022, in Berlin, Germany.

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Award 2022: CV Saad Salloum with Masarat Iraq

Dr Saad Salloum is a young Iraqi author and an assistant professor of political science at College of Political Science at Al-Mustansiriya University, Baghdad. He cofounded the Christian-Muslim Dialogue Initiative 2010 , the Iraqi Council for Interfaith Dialogue 2013, the National Center for Countering Hate Speeches 2018, the Institute for Religious Diversity Studies in Baghdad 2019, and the Institute for Diversity Journalism in Iraq 2020.

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Award 2022: CV Nayla Tabbara with Adyan Foundation

After both a BA and MA in Medieval History from the Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon, Dr. Tabbara received her PhD in Religious Studies from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne, Paris) and Saint Joseph University. Currently her area of expertise covers Islamic theology of religious diversity, Islamic feminism, exegesis of the Quran, Sufism, and education on interreligious and intercultural diversity.

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The Ibn Rushd Prize 2022: Call For Nomination

The 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.

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