CENTRE for RELIGIOUS PLURALISM in the MIDDLE EAST

The Foundation presents informed analysis on the interaction of religion and conflict globally in order to counter religious prejudice, conflict and extremism.

The International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) is a private, not-for-profit, non-political organization of persons interested in Iranian Studies in the broadest sense.

Contemporary Arab Affairs seeks to publish work by specialists, policy experts and scholars from the region itself and the international community.

The mission of The Washington Institute is to advance a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East and to promote the policies that secure them.

Arab-West Report is an independent weekly digest of Egyptian newspaper translations and editorial analysis, focusing primarily on Arab-West and Muslim-Christian relations founded in 1997 by Cornelis Hulsman and Sawsan Gabra Ayoub Khalil.

The Cairo Review of Global Affairs is the quarterly journal of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) at American University in Cairo (AUC).

Al Bawaba, through its network of sites, combines the most substantive content licensing system in the Arab World with a unique and growing news community, cutting edge technology and first rate journalism.

Jafariyanews provides up-to-date information to the Shia community in the World.

Shiawaves provides up-to-date information to the Shia community in the World.

Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations promotes the scholarly study of Islam as a religious and intellectual tradition, and its relations with Christianity and other religions.

The Center's mission is to improve relations between the Muslim world and the West and enhance understanding of Muslims in the West. The geographic scope and coverage of the center includes the breadth of the Muslim world, from North Africa to Southeast Asia, as well as Europe and America.

The Journal of Arabian Studies is focusing on the Arabian Peninsula, its surrounding waters, and their connections with the Western Indian Ocean (from West India to East Africa), from Antiquity to the present day. It covers a wide range of topics, in all disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities.

The Centre for Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter is an inter-disciplinary team of researchers in humanities and social sciences interested in all aspects of anthropology, history, economy, politics and society of the Gulf region. The Centre’s collective expertise encompasses the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, and Iran.

The CEMMIS research and analysis group is designed to form a Political Risk Evaluation Unit, which geographically covers the countries of North Africa, from Morocco and Mauritania to Egypt, the countries of the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf including Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In addition, it covers the Horn of Africa from Sudan and Somalia to Ethiopia and Eritrea. There is special focus on general economic, cultural and political trends in the whole of the

The Middle East Policy Council is a nonprofit organization founded in 1981 whose mission is to contribute to American understanding of the political, economic and cultural issues that affect U.S. interests in the Middle East. This is accomplished through three programs: the quarterly journal Middle East Policy (the most influential policy publication on the region); the Capitol Hill Conference Series for policymakers and their staffs offering multiple points of view on complex issues; and

Egypt Today is the nation’s oldest and bestselling English-language social affairs magazine, providing features, profiles and in-depth analysis since 1979. We go beyond just the facts to provide readers with the stories behind the headlines, the stories that haven’t made the headlines and with unique perspectives, context and depth.

Watani is an Egyptian weekly Sunday newspaper published in Cairo. The word Watani is Arabic for “My Homeland”. The paper was founded in 1958 by the prominent Copt Antoun Sidhom (1915 – 1995), who strove for the establishment of a civil, democratic society in Egypt, where all Egyptians would enjoy full citizenship rights regardless of their religious denomination. This remains Watani’s objective to this day, leaning neither left nor right on the political level, but following its own clear

Painter Mohammed Hetlr has been preoccupied with drawing and painting sacred Shiite figures from Iraq and around the world. He has been making good money selling his work and, in an interview with Al-Monitor, said that he considered his painting to be part of his “religious duty” to express his faith and ideological commitment.

Abstract

This article analyzes how Saudi Shiʿi historians have adapted tools associated with nationalism to create distinct historical narratives for the Shiʿa of Eastern Arabia.