United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
I have been contacted to participate in an online discussion group that will adress misconceptions, bring peace and understanding and level between the islam and europe. The initiative for this Alliance came from the Spanish and Turkish Prime Ministers.
I am very happy that something like this happens, proving that the internet does have use not only in the global-universal meaning of the word, but also in the personal level. They found me!
Susan Douglass said:
I am the senior researcher for education for the Alliance of Civilizations project. I found you through your response to a message on H-world, and followed a link to EUROCLIO.
I hope the discussion will improve EUROCLIO visibility and put World History even more on the map.
Furthermore, after years of avoidance the time has come to install a linux system on my laptop. Ubuntu it is.
posted by jonathan even-zohar @ 15:08
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It was after the Gulf War that his mother and boyfriend at the time decided to 'descend' from the Holy land and set sail towards The Hague, being the birthplace of Even-Zohars
mother. Jonathan managed well in Grade school and High school, so the
next logical step was the University, the infinite source of knowledge.
After speculating on Industrial Design, Social Geography and Journalism
it was the study of History at Leiden that turned out to be his
decision.
Now, four years into the study, matters have only become more
complicated as this student advances towards World History; meaning the
complete array of fields a historian may implement in explaining the
entire past of the entire world to fellow men. It is especially the
philosophical character of World History that attracted Jonathan.
For him there is only one question that stands above all others like a
lonely chuchtower in some Flemish village, which asks the cause of the
Western Rise and the Industrial Revolution. Furthermore, the role of the
European self- and worldimage throughout its history may explain the
role of Europe in the Eurasian Human Web. Thus, the direct contact
between Islam and Christianity is to be investigated. Were Muslims
constantly on the verge of invading Europe? How did Arab people perceive
the 'barbaric' Christians? How was Science spread and how did the West
pick up knowledge form the Arabs or from further East? Europe and the
Islam are still not at peace, certainly not in the mind.
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