Title:	Toward New Democratic Imaginaries – İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics
Authors:	Benhabib, Seyla Seyla Benhabib and Volker Kau
Keywords:	Culture and Politics
Issue Date:	2016
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This book epitomizes a desire for dialogue amidst a stormy season of confl ict. The İstanbul seminars, inaugurated in 2008, exemplify the spirit and intentions of ResetDialogues on Civilizations, an association created to promote all that its name implies: the development of a conversation between people that transcends political, cultural, linguistic, and religious borders, facilitating communication between East and West and North and South, from both sides of Samuel Huntington’s “fault lines.” This annual meeting we hold, greatly anticipated by young scholars of philosophy and social science from all over the world, was started by Nina zu Fürstenberg and myself with a preparatory phase that lasted a few years. This delay was also caused by attempts to hold the event elsewhere – in Tehran and in Cairo – that were met with adversity, such as the arrest and exile of one of our Iranian partners and friends, Ramin Jahanbegloo . At the time, freedom of the press – and freedom in general – in Egypt was restricted by the Mubarak regime, which further complicated all public initiatives.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/76598
ISBN:	978-3-319-41821-6
Appears in Collections:	History

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