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 →
Nurani: How Meedan aims to promote deeper understanding between faiths
Nurani.org is a platform for dialogue between religious scholars, leaders and civic groups in two languages – Arabic and English. The product of a collaboration between Meedan, the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme at the University of Cambridge, the Coexist Foundation, and a consortium of universities and research centres, it allows members of the Abrahamic faith traditions to share and study their scriptures together. Nurani itself is designed for bi-lateral discussions between Muslims and Christians, though the underlying platform is being customized for three-faith dialogue involving Jewish participants. Nurani.org specifically aims to: enable... Read The Rest →
UK Research Grant supports Meedan web service to improve communication between religions
Meedan’s Nurani platform – a digital project to develop online dialogues between Muslims, Christians and Jews – has won a prestigious UK Research Councils’ grant worth $450,000. Developed with our partners at the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme and the Coexist Foundation, Nurani is a pioneering web service that enables cross-language discussions between religious leaders, scholars and civic groups in Arabic and English. The research grant, which is part of the highly competitive Digital Economy Programme, will support the creation of the world’s first inter-faith library of religious texts and the further... 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 →
What will Middle East make of Obama speech?
Barack Obama has a pretty daunting task ahead of him if he is to win over the Muslim world in one speech. But Time‘s reporting his approval ratings are sky high. So how will his all-crucial speech in Cairo on Thursday be received by the people of the region? We are looking for new volunteer translators and citizen reporters (in addition to any existing Meedanis) to help report and translate reactions to Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo on Thursday 4 June. This is going to be a massive event, and... Read The Rest →
1: Born-to-be-blogger Abu Aardvark covers the story when the reporters have gone home
If ever there was a blogger who should have been born blogging, it would be Abu Aardvark. Prolific would be an understatement; his blog is a universe unto itself. This is a web log that sprawls across half a decade, documenting political developments from Kirbala to Cairo through each of those five turbulent years with a fine toothcomb. To the new visitor, it may seem dense. But to the regular these pages are rich and fertile pastures, where curious minds can graze for hours on end. Abu Aardvark may be... Read The Rest →