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 […]
Continue ReadingLadies and GentlemenI am greatly honoured to be with you On behalf of jury of the Ibn Rushd Prize for Free thought of the year 2022. To present the joint award this year to one of its winners, Dr. Saad Salloum.You know that the Ibn Rushd Foundation seeks to promote the centrality of the human […]
Continue ReadingLadies 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 […]
Continue ReadingReading Canon of Arabic literature On behalf of Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought we embarked on this project Afdal ma qara’t in 2018 to promote good reading within the Arabic world. Twenty-nine intellectuals and personalities of the Arab world, included one German, contributed to this project. The list contains 378 titles: 234 literary […]
Continue ReadingClaiming Back Sovereignty over the Arab World This Year’s Ibn Rushd-Prize for Freedom of Thought will be presented to the Egyptian author Sonallah Ibrahim. He will receive the award personally on Friday, 26th November in Berlin. Mr Ibrahim will be presented the Ibn Rushd-Prize for his enduring fight for freedom of speech and democracy […]
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