Nurani: A Walk Through of Meedan's Inter-faith Scriptural Study Site
We are proud to announce the first release of Nurani, a platform for cross-language scriptural discussion for Muslim and Christian scholars managed by the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme at the University of Cambridge, a programme of the Faculty of Divinity. Nurani is a cross-language open source platform for inter-religious dialogue developed by Meedan. The goal is to facilitate improved understanding between different faith communities and between speakers of Arabic and English. Nurani achieves this by enabling users to share and discuss scriptural and commentary texts from their faith traditions in two... Read The Rest →
Questions the London Conference on Libya didn't ask: Notes from Belief in Dialogue forum
Most eyes in London were on Lancaster House today as Hillary Clinton joined foreign secretaries from around the world to talk about an international response to Libya. But just a stone’s throw away overlooking the Mall in the magnificent building of the British Academy, a different, but perhaps no less important, conversation was underway. The Belief in Dialogue symposium brought together scientists, theologians, political historians, policy people, and inter-faith practitioners to thrash out a model of the way in which religious and secular forms of knowledge and practice can coexist.... Read The Rest →
Crafting a moderation policy for cross-cultural dialogue online
What are the ingredients needed to craft an appropriate moderation policy for a cross-cultural forum? That’s a question we’ve been trying to answer for some time. In many ways, it’s a question we’ll need to be asking as long as this project exists. Meedan obviously brings together people of very different linguistic, cultural and religious backgrounds – which makes moderation challenging in two distinct respects. One, there are not obvious cultural norms we can draw on. And two, we are necessarily bringing together divergent viewpoints which are more likely... Read The Rest →
Meedan to build religious dialogue platform with Cambridge Inter-faith Programme
Meedan has partnered with the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme to develop an online platform for inter-faith discussion. We aim to produce a world-class, high-impact, web-based platform to aid discussion and promote understanding between leading figures in the Abrahamic Faiths. We envision a universally accessible resource for government, the press, educational institutions and the general public. We aim to build a ‘first port of call’ for inter-faith comment, analysis and discussion. The platform has two elements, each of which addresses a significant challenge to media designed for the web: (1) It will... Read The Rest →
Meedan blogging on the Huffington Post
We’re delighted to announce that Meedan is now blogging on the Huffington Post. You can see the first ever examples of Arabic (with translations) on the HuffPo at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meedan. We are trying to provide rich narratives of emerging Middle East events in an easily-digestible news format. It’s exciting for the project because it allows us to reach new users and expand our community across continents, bringing the three quarters of our user base who are located in the Middle East in reach of Americans interested in similar stories and issues. The... Read The Rest →
Live blogging Center for Study of Islam and Democracy conference on Meedan.net
The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy is to run a featured channel of reports, discussions and comments on its 10th year annual conference on the cross-language dialogue platform Meedan.net. US-based speakers include Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland, John Esposito of Georgetown and Geneive Abdo of The Century Foundation. There are also many speakers from the Middle East, including Sara Korshid of Islam Online, Dr. Osama Kadi, Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies and Atef Al-Saadawy, Al-Ahram Democracy Review. The channel will allow CSID to... Read The Rest →