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FORUM « IBN KHALDOUN » FOR THE EAST/WEST DIALOGUE

International Network for Scientific and Cultural Cooperation

Dialogue of cultures, dialogue of civilizations, Euro-Arab dialogue, Islamic-Christian dialogue, transméditerranéen dialogue... More than ever, such dialogues are necessary for the progress of the Mediterranean, rightly considered by the UNESCO World Conference in Mexico in 1982 as "a link between peoples and civilizations, a mother bearer of creation, a basin of millennial exchanges, a place of dialogue between European and Islamic cultures".

It is in this spirit, anxious to contribute to peace, understanding and tolerance in the Mediterranean and in the world, we have taken the initiative to create the "Ibn Khaldoun" Forum for East/West Dialogue”, which forum is intended to serve as an international network for scientific and cultural cooperation.

It is about creating a framework for reflection, exchange and dialogue on the cultural dimensions of the Mediterranean considered as a geopolitical and geo-economic space in full mutation. It is also about understanding the different trans-Mediterranean mechanisms and factors likely to act on the relations on both sides of the Mediterranean, at a time when intercultural misunderstandings dominate the news and at a time when, on all sides, symptoms of intolerance, xenophobia and identity withdrawal are resurfacing, in the South as well as in the North of the Mediterranean.

Such a dialogue is conceived as a real alternative likely to grant a last chance to the "mare nostrum", threatened with definitively losing its historical weight and its geographical centrality in favor of another region of the globe, that of Asia and the Far East, already considered, in the eyes of certain strategists, as the "Mediterranean of the 21st century".

Ibn Khaldoun, Arab precursor of the dialogue between civilizations

"Ibn Khaldoun, Arab precursor of the dialogue of cultures and civilizations". Such is the emblem of this project of a new International Network on the Mediterranean and East-West relations. This emblematic personality can constitute a link between the cultures of the East and the West, which today have divergent and sometimes distant trajectories.

In these difficult times, marked by political and economic uncertainties, crises and latent wars in Ukraine and the specters of genocide in Gaza, not to mention the resurgence of factors of intolerance, racism, xenophobia and fanaticism, in the North as in the South, in the East as in the West, more than ever, dialogue between cultures and civilizations is essential on a planetary scale for the survival of the human race.

AREAS OF EXPERTISES

Diplomacy / International Organizations

Maghreb / Mediterranean / Africa

Geopolitics North / South, South / South

Tourism and Cultural Heritage

Public Relations and Communications

MY PUBLICATIONS

This section of the website contains a list of indicative publications including books, book chapters, papers and reports produced by the author over the past twenty years .

Cover page in Arabic of the new book on Ibn Khaldoun

MY CONFERENCES

This section of the website encloses a list of indicative and selected significant events including conferences, meetings and seminars taking place all over the world that the author has attended over the past twenty years