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23 April National Sovereignty and Children's Day Culture Contest |
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 23 April National Sovereignty and Children's Day Culture Contest at Rice University, Houston Texas, April 29, 2007 at 5:30 p.m.
The 1st 23 April National Sovereignty and Children's Day Culture Contest hosted by The Raindrop Turkevi will be held at Rice University, Houston Texas, on April 29th, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. Students from different grades will compete in total 4 categories: Turkish Language, Turkey Geography, Turkish History and Turkish Culture. There will be chorus performance and poem reading as well.
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Conference on Exploring Models for Peace by Re-Exploring Past: Diversity in the Ottoman Empire |
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One
of the prominent universities of United States
as well as world, University
of Texas held a two-day international
conference on Ottoman Tolerance on 24-25 March. Center for Middle Eastern
Studies of University of Texas, Raindrop Foundation, and the Institute of Interfaith
Dialog were the organizers of the conference.Conference
started with a reception held on Friday 23 March for the conference speakers
and distinguished guests. Speakers from England,
Turkey, Egypt, Macedonia,
and various cities of United States
delivered detailed information about the diversity and the tolerance existed in
the Ottoman Empire. (March 23-24,2007,AUSTIN)
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International Conference On MAWLANA JALALUDDIN RUMI April 21,2007 |
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 Great Love Inside Me
I am
so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?
Look
at your eyes. They are small,
but they see enormous things.
International Conference On MAWLANA JALALUDDIN RUMI
Herring Hall 100,Rice University April 21,2007,HOUSTON
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Conference on Exploring Models for Peace by Re-Exploring Past: Diversity in the Ottoman Empire |
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 Over the last two decades, the focus of world politics has shifted from ideological conflicts between the two Super Powers to the so-called “clash of civilizations”, which foresees in the post-Cold War era the collision of world civilizations on global scale. Built on the essentialist assumption of the primordial and intrinsic discord of the Islamic and the Western-Christian worlds this view predicts that a major clash will take place between these two civilizations. This self-fulfilling prophecy seems to have both legitimized and also was corroborated by the unfortunate developments on the Middle Eastern scene over the last few years.
Fortunately for the optimistic, however, history does not fall short of providing examples that defy the selective memory of the advocates of the ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis. The Mediterranean basin, the cradle of the world’s greatest civilizations, has presented us with the most vivid and productive instances of cultural interaction and peaceful coexistence. While the cultural impact of convivencia in medieval Spain paved the way for the intellectual transformation of Europe that changed the world forever, Ottoman rule in the Middle East and southeastern Europe created one of the most successful models of plural society in the early modern world.
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