Dec 16 2004
Arab-European Encounter in Cairo Acknowledges Need to Address Mutual Misperception
The issue of Western misperception of Arabs and Muslims was the subject of a singularly realistic debate this week at the headquarters of the Arab League.
Meeting under the title, “Euro-Arab Dialogue: The image of Arab-Islamic Culture in European History Books”, representatives of the Arab League, UNESCO, the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALECSO), the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (IESCO) and the Council of Europe debated the misrepresentations of Arabs and Muslims in European countries. The international conference concluded that European culture contained an “erroneous image, if not images”, not just of Arabs and Muslims, but also of Arab culture, Muslim civilisation, and above all, of Islam as a faith.
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