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  Interview with Volker Jung: ''We Promote Interfaith Skills'' - Qantara.de

  https://de.qantara.de/content/interview-mit-kirchenprasident-volker-jung-wir-fordern-interreligiose-kompetenzen

  Germany is changing. The reality of being an immigration society is gaining acceptance. The presence of millions of people with an immigrant background also poses a challenge for the Churches. Qantara.de spoke to Dr Volker Jung, the President of the…

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  Interview with Father Paolo Dall'Oglio on Syria: Hoping for a Victory without Revenge - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/Versoehnung-statt-Rache/20599c22664i1p526/index.html

  Paolo Dall'Oglio has lived in Syria for over 30 years. Founder of the Deir Mar Musa monastic community north of Damascus, he has always been committed to interreligious dialogue with the Muslim world. Last June, he was banished by the regime. Father Paolo…

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  Arab Intellectuals and the Arab Spring: The Silence of the Thinkers - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/Das-Schweigen-des-Dichters/16269c16469i1p145/index.html

  Many intellectuals in the Arab world had already made their peace with the autocrats and dictators. Few of them made an active contribution to the Arab Spring movements. A commentary by Mona Naggar

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  Comparative Theology in Germany: Muslims and Christians Discussing Nietzsche - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/Wegweiser-in-der-Welt-der-Religionen/18741c19620i1p498/index.html

  Klaus von Stosch is the most important representative of Comparative Theology in Germany. In his new reference work, Stosch writes that this course of studies is a "guide to the world of religions". Ursula Rüssmann introduces the man and his theology of…

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  Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: The Heavy Burden of the Open Borders Policy - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/Syriens-grenzenloses-Fluechtlingselend/20688c22864i1p526/index.html

  The crisis of the Syrian refugees is growing day by day in neighbouring Lebanon. State institutions are neither able nor willing to deal with the situation. Bjorn Zimprich talked to Guita Hourani, Director of the Lebanese Emigration and Research Center,…

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  Interview with Muslim Scholar Ziauddin Sardar: ''Muslims Yearn for Real Debate'' - Qantara.de

  https://de.qantara.de/content/interview-mit-dem-islamgelehrten-ziauddin-sardar-fur-einen-bewusstseinswandel-im-islam

  Ziauddin Sardar is a leading British-Pakistani Muslim scholar and critic. In this interview with Susannah Tarbush, he talks about the magazine "Critical Muslim" he founded and which he sees as an "intellectual, cultural, philosophical and creative backup"…

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  Interview with Sari Nusseibeh: Plea for Radical Pragmatism - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/Abschied-von-einer-Zwei-Staaten-Loesung/19746c21063i1p496/index.html

  Sari Nusseibeh, a prominent Palestinian philosopher, says that the two-state solution is no longer viable. In this interview with Naima El Moussaoui, he argues that a single Jewish state on the whole territory in exchange for second-class Palestinian…

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  Interview with Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari: Why Islam and Democracy Go Well Together - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/content/interview-mit-mohammad-mojtahed-shabestari-warum-islam-und-demokratie-zusammen-passen

  The Shiite scholar Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari is regarded as one of the Iran's most influential Muslim reformist thinkers. In an interview with Jan Kuhlmann, he explains why there is no inconsistency between Islam and democracy.

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  Interview mit dem französischen Islam-Experten Gilles Kepel : Leiden und Leidenschaft - Qantara.de

  https://de.qantara.de/node/18190

  Seit drei Jahrzehnten verfolgt der renommierte französische Sozialwissenschaftler Gilles Kepel die Entwicklung muslimischer Gesellschaften. Er stellt die Entwicklung in den französischen Vorstädten und die Vorgänge in der arabischen Welt in einen engen…

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  Interview with Ex-Guantanamo Detainee Sami al Hajj: ''The Guards Are Prisoners Too'' - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/Selbst-die-Waerter-waren-Gefangene/18343c19054i1p496/index.html

  Exactly 10 years ago the first plane carrying detainees landed in Guantanamo Bay. Since then, 779 men have been detained without charge and without trial, with 171 of them still being held in Cuba. Sami al Hajj, a Sudanese journalist, was one of them.…

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