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 Interfaith Dialogue Organization (IDO) organized a panel discussion on March 22, 2009 at W.T Young Library Auditorium. The panel was about the Common Word initiative in general and how we can use this opportunity to foster dialogue efforts in our community. We were fortunate to have Dr. Swanson from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and Dr. Ismail Acar from Bard College, NY. Dr. Swanson emphasized how the Common Word initiative is timely, useful and promising for both Christians and Muslims. By referring to verses from the Quran, Dr. Acar demonstrated that Muslims have theological foundations to be involved in dialogue with Christians.
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 Interfaith Dialogue Organization organized a wonderful panel discussion about Jewish - Muslim Dialogue on Tuesday, November 18, 2008. The event was supported by the Student Government of University of Kentucky and a student among the audience won an iTouch. Speakers were Mehri Niknam and Ibrahim Kalin. Mehri Niknam was at our university with a Fullbright scholarship for a research project. She is Iranian-born Jewish scholar and from the Joseph Interfaith Foundation from England. Ibrahim Kalin is a Muslim scholar teaching at Georgetown University. In spite of tension in the region during the panel and salience of the political dimension of the issue, speakers emphasized the necessity of dialogue between two religions, its necessity and what they have been doing.
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