The Rumi Forum presented ‘Interfaith Dialogue : Where do we go from here?”’ with Abdallah Schleifer, Professor Emeritus at the American University in Cairo.
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 Neighbour.
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.