Newsletter September 2026
There were no summer holidays for IDEO. The summer was hot and warm. It began for us in the first week of July, with the conference organized by the NCCMR on interreligious dialogue. We had expected it to take place in Amman. It was held in Cairo instead, as Trump’s war in the Middle East […]
Newsletter July 2026
It is a fact that several of the foremost specialists in Islamic mysticism have been Catholic priests and religious, from Louis Massignon, Georges Anawati, and Louis Gardet in the last century to Giuseppe Scattolin, a Comboni missionary from the Province of Trento, who passed away on 27 April this year after devoting his entire life […]
Newsletter June 2026
“Women and Religions”. This marks Season III for this certification from the “Anawati Chair”. This year, we changed how we select candidates. Because of artificial intelligence, we no longer know whose writing we are reading, what the students actually think, what their motivations are, if they have any, or if what they write is really […]
Newsletter May 2026
The visit of ISTR students from Paris provided a valuable opportunity to meet with al-Azhar’s Department of Islamic Studies, headed by Dr. Ali Abdelhakim. It also allowed for a discussion on the Document on Human Fraternity with students from the CEF of al-Azhar, directed by Dr. Mona Sabry. These encounters gave concrete expression to a […]
Newsletter April 2026
There are those who do not choose between friendship and knowledge because they have understood—through a profound intuition, perhaps irreducible to any demonstration—that one without the other is but half an existence. Father Georges Anawati was certainly one of these men. The documentary recently produced by IDEO, which we are now making available to you, […]
Newsletter March 2026
An unprecedented training week was implemented at the beginning of February on the topic “Complementarity between Religions and Human Rights.” It was organized in partnership with the Observatory for Combating Extremism and the British University in Egypt, with which we inaugurated a promising collaboration thanks to the dynamic commitment of Professor Ibrahim Salama. It is […]
Newsletter February 2026
The proceedings of the Islam and Fraternity conference, organized in Abu Dhabi by the Pluriel network with the support of the Anawati Chair, in partnership with Trends, and to which several members of the IDEO contributed, have just been published in the series Les Cahiers du Midéo (No. 7). They are fully accessible online, as […]
Newsletter January 2026
Sometimes a place calls upon those who inhabit it to bring it out of oblivion. When Francesco Antonini came in September 2023 as a recipient of the IDEO-Ifao-IFI predoctoral fellowship, as a philosopher and historian by training, he did not remain long deaf to this call. Because our walls are not only meant for sleep […]
Newsletter December 2025
– €35,000! This year’s deficit has gradually decreased over the months thanks to tight management, but it still remains very significant! If you love IDEO, if you believe in our mission and in its many activities dedicated to research in Islamic studies, to supporting Egyptian and international students, to the careful development of a unique […]
Newsletter November 2025
Since October, IDEO, in partnership with the French Institute of Islamic studies (IFI), has inaugurated a seminar on methodology applied to Islamic studies, whose studies unfold within the fertile soil of the human sciences. Ten students participate: enrolled in Egypt in master’s or doctoral programs, they attempt the challenging art of interrogating—and sometimes testing—the texts […]