Are co-sponsoring Catholic-Muslim Conference For All Humanity: Catholic-Muslim Dialogue in Global Perspective.
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ISPI is bringing dyads of Catholic-Muslim dialogue leaders from four international locations (i.e., Indonesia, Nigeria, Israel-Palestine, and the U.K.) who will be presenting papers focusing on the following questions:
What is the state of the dialogue in your region today?
What are some of the greatest challenges you have faced and are facing? What socio-political, historical, and economic factors are at play here?
What are your reasonable hopes for progress in the near future?
What do you think the experience in your region has to offer the ongoing development of a Christian (for a Christian leader) or Islamic (for a Muslim leader) theology of dialogue?

There will be a book published under the auspices of ISPI and the Bernardin Center–perhaps with Rowman and Littlefield publishers.

Presenters include:

From Indonesia: Fr. Thomas Michel, S.J. (president of inter-religious dialogue for the Jesuit curia and a priest of the Indonesian province of the Jesuits) and Syfa’atun Almirzanah (Lecturer at Jogjakarta State Islamic University, Ph.D. cand. at LSTC and D.Min. cand at CTU

From Nigeria: Fr. Matthew Kukah (former fellow of the Kennedy School of Gov’t, member of the Nigerian president’s council for inter-religious affairs) and Prof. Ishaq Oloyede (professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Ibadan)

From Israel-Palestine: Dr. Geries Khoury (executive director of Al-Liqa center for Christian-Muslim Dialogue in Palestine) and Zafer Mohammed (expert in inter-religious affairs for the Palestinian Authority, former peace studies fellow at Notre Dame, current MA student at CTU and recently awarded a five-year fellowship to Georgetown University’s new Ph.D. in religious pluralism)

From U.K.: Imam Abdul Jaleel Sajid (whom I’m sure you know) and Prof. Ian Linden (Associate Prof. at SOAS in London, recently appointed to the national commission for inter-religious dialogue along with the Archbishop of Canterbury)