NYUAD Institute
267 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe NYUAD Institute is a center of advanced research, scholarly and creative activity, and public workshops. Institute programs facilitate discussion between academics, students, professionals, and leaders from the UAE and from around the world.
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Are Five Husbands Better Than One
February 20, 2018 07:37 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MBJanuary 9, 2018 Until very recently, fraternal polyandry was the traditional marriage form observed by ethnic Tibetan people of many high Himalayan valleys. In this type of marriage, women marry a set of brothers, co-reside with them, and can bear children to all of them. Polyandry is rare among mammals, and is almost unknown among humans. Indeed, it challenges many common assumptions about marriage and family formation processes, no matter what the cultural or ecological context. This talk ...
On the First Arabic Novella from the 11th Century:: The Doctors' Dinner Party by Ibn Butlan
December 31, 2017 08:48 - 1 hour - 101 MB12/12/2017 his talk showcases a little-known gem of medieval Arabic creative literature, the Da`wat al-Aṭibbā’ or Doctors' Dinner Party by Ibn Butlan (d.1066 CE). This text is an important, but little-known, milestone in the history of pre-modern Arabic narrative. This talk also focuses on the significance of the work along with the challenges of translating such a work into English in the 21st century as well as why it still appeals to a contemporary audience. Speaker Philip Kennedy, Gener...
Crypto Wars: From Ceasar to Quantum Powers and Smart Cities
December 31, 2017 08:47 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MB11/26/2017 People live in an era of smart cities empowered by Autonomous systems, FinTech technologies, Quantum computations and Artificial Intelligence. The new-age information revolution is pushing the limits of all electronic representations in terms of computational complexity, power, and area. The security of any hardware devices, embedded systems and generic system used within these environments will be dependent on the robustness and strength of Cryptographic primitives used as atomic...
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
December 31, 2017 08:46 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MB12/07/2017 A machine plays the strategy game ‘Go’ better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than corporate research labs. In this talk, MIT’s Andrew McAfee discusses what it takes to master this digital-powered shift and delves into topics surrounding how individuals must rethink the integration of minds and machines, of products and platforms, and of the core and the crowd. In all three ...
Sleep Less Smile More: Interplay Between Sleep and Mood Disorders
December 28, 2017 10:05 - 1 hour - 90.3 MB11/15/2017 Most people have experienced the close links between their body rhythms and mood. For example, changes in sleep-wake cycle during jet lag can temporarily affect mood. In light of the fact that most people feel good, and function better, after a good night’s sleep, it is surprising that sleep deprivation therapy can rapidly treat depression in psychiatric patients. One of the leading hypotheses for the therapeutic effect of sleep deprivation is that it resets abnormal rhythms in dep...
The Evolution Of Date Palms
December 28, 2017 10:03 - 51 minutes - 70.9 MB11/19/2017 Date palms are the most significant food crop in the Middle East and North Africa and are one of the few crop species that thrive in hot and dry environments. How did this important food crop evolve? Where did they come from? What are the genes that make different date palm varieties unique? This talk explores the evolution and genetics of date palms as uncovered by research at the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. Speaker Michael Purugganan, Dorothy Schiff P...
The Everyday Lives Of Muslim American Teenage Boys
December 07, 2017 05:45 - 47 minutes - 64.6 MB10/30/2017 Based on his new book, Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys (Princeton University Press, 2017), sociologist John O’Brien provides a uniquely personal look at the social worlds of a group of young male friends as they navigate the complexities of growing up Muslim in America. This talk offers a portrait of Muslim American teenage boys concerned with typical teenage issues—girlfriends, school, parents, being cool— and describes their efforts to devise...
Maysson Zayed Laughing At Life
December 07, 2017 05:43 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MB09/12/2017 Comedian, writer, actress, tap dancer, and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid tells a humorous tale of beating the odds and laughing in the face of failure. As a Palestinian, Muslim, disabled woman growing up in America, she was taught to dream big and to have no fear. In her talk, she gives advice on how to be the best you that you can be and how we can fix our broken world. Maysoon had the most viewed TED Talk of 2014 and has toured the globe making sold out audiences worldwide la...
Maysson Zayed Laughing At Life
December 07, 2017 05:43 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MB09/12/2017 Comedian, writer, actress, tap dancer, and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid tells a humorous tale of beating the odds and laughing in the face of failure. As a Palestinian, Muslim, disabled woman growing up in America, she was taught to dream big and to have no fear. In her talk, she gives advice on how to be the best you that you can be and how we can fix our broken world. Maysoon had the most viewed TED Talk of 2014 and has toured the globe making sold out audiences worldwide la...
SESAME: A Source of Light in the Middle East
November 23, 2017 09:17 - 1 hour - 92.4 MB10/23/2017 In everyday life individuals learn by ‘seeing’ things using light; the same is true in science. The extraordinary power of synchrotron light has made it an essential tool for studying matter on scales ranging from biological cells to atoms. This lecture discusses the idea of SESAME, an international institute in the Middle East built on the successful model of CERN, in fields like archaeology, biology, chemistry, environmental science, geology, medicine, and physics. Speaker Rol...
A World Free Of Nuclear Weapons
November 23, 2017 09:16 - 50 minutes - 69.2 MB10/3/2017 This lecture underlines the special character of nuclear weapons and discusses the desirability and the feasibility of a nuclear-weapon-free world. In addition to addressing some past activities that worked to promote nuclear disarmament and the transition to a nuclear-weapon-free world, the lecture also covers the significant developments initiated by the January 2007 Wall Street Journal op-ed coauthored by Shultz, Perry, Kissinger, and Nunn, which culminated in the April 2009 Pra...
“Behind the Lynchings:” Uncovering Racial Violence in the U.S. South, 1930-1954
November 23, 2017 09:10 - 39 minutes - 54 MB11/6/2017 Racial violence, perpetrated by law enforcement or private citizens, has re-emerged as a potent social and political issue in the United States. Yet, racially motivated violence is deeply rooted in American history. Although images of Southern racial violence capture the public imagination, much is still unknown. There is no scholarly consensus on the total number of deaths. Nor do people understand the full scope and nature of such violence or its consequences for political, econo...
The Human Journey
November 23, 2017 09:08 - 1 hour - 90.1 MB10/16/2017 Anthropologist, geneticist, author, and entrepreneur Spencer Wells discusses his work using genetics to track human movement patterns around the world. A new and rapidly-growing industry, consumer genomics gives people the opportunity to learn not only about the origin of their ancestors, but also about the traits they have inherited from them, using DNA data. Through a whirlwind tour of the past 60,000 years of human history, Wells speculates about where current demographic trend...
Do You Trust Your Chip
November 23, 2017 09:06 - 42 minutes - 58.9 MB10/18/2017 Ubiquity of electronic devices—mostly smart ones with electronic chips embedded in them—is attributed to the desire to improve the quality of our lives, but can we really trust these chips? Driven by cost-conscious consumer electronics, outsourcing of various crucial steps in chip design and fabrication is forcing chip designers and users to re-assess their trust in hardware. Chips are increasingly prone to hardware-level threats such as reverse engineering, counterfeiting, Intell...
Dokha as An Emerging Epidemic: What Can We Learn from Global Tobacco Control?
November 23, 2017 09:05 - 1 hour - 85.7 MB11/5/2017 Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death, on trajectory to cause 1 billion deaths this century. A particularly alarming trend is the rise of alternative tobacco products, which are often perceived as safe as or less harmful than cigarettes. Dokha tobacco use is very common throughout the Gulf region, and use appears to be emerging in other parts of the world. While the risks of use of other forms of tobacco are documented, very little is known about dokha. In this publ...
Robert Swan: Leadership on the Edge
October 16, 2017 06:06 - 1 hour - 95.6 MBOctober 1, 2017 Presented by Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program, Robert Swan, OBE, one of the world’s greatest explorers, is the first person in history to walk to both the North and South Poles. With his presence and integrity, and his accomplishments and reflections, Swan has an extraordinary ability to inspire and motivate audiences worldwide. Having experienced leadership and team cooperation in some of the world’s most hostile environments, Swan, who was recently appointed ambassador...
The Nature of the Law in the UAE: Is the UAE a Civil Law Jurisdiction?
October 16, 2017 06:03 - 58 minutes - 80.1 MBSeptember 26, 2017 Legal practitioners often describe the United Arab Emirates as a "civil law" jurisdiction. But is that description accurate? The United Arab Emirates is called a melting pot because of the many nationalities and cultures that coexist within its borders. Fittingly, the legal system of the United Arab Emirates mirrors the cultural complexity of the country's population. The United Arab Emirates is an evolving legal system that currently reflects a unique mixture of several o...
Peaceland : Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
October 16, 2017 05:58 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MBSeptember 13, 2017 This lecture suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions so often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of research in conflict zones around the world, everyday elements – such as the expatriates’ social habits and common approaches to understanding their areas of operation – strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness. Through an in-depth analysis of the interveners’ everyday life and work, the speaker proposes innovative w...
A Conversation in Memory of Hilary Ballon: The founding of NYU Abu Dhabi
October 16, 2017 05:53 - 1 hour - 104 MBOctober 8, 2017 In 2007 an agreement was reached between the leadership of New York University and the government of Abu Dhabi to create a cutting edge university that would combine the strengths of Abu Dhabi and NYU. This challenge provided the opportunity to revisit and reevaluate the meaning of a liberal arts institution of higher education in the 21st century, with a truly global character and research and excellent undergraduate education at its heart. Deputy Vice Chancellor Hilary Ball...
Islam and Evolution: Was Darwin Right and Why Should Muslims Care?
October 16, 2017 05:52 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBSeptember 17, 2017 In this public lecture, Abouheif will address a number of controversial questions and explore if an understanding or appreciation of evolution is necessary for the advancement of science in the Islamic world. Part of "Evolution Across Disciplines" Speakers Ehab Abouheif James McGill Professor, McGill University; Guggenheim Fellow; Member of the Royal Society of Canada
What On Earth Are Animals Saying?
October 16, 2017 05:50 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBSeptember 19, 2017 Award winning author and journalist, Charles Siebert, talks of his many experiences visiting with, and writing about, non-human animals, and what they reveal to us about themselves and us. Through his interludes with everyone from a former cellist in an all chimpanzee circus orchestra; to an octopus escape artist; to elephant and whale ventriloquists; to traumatized orphaned parrots who heal equally traumatized war veterans, Siebert introduces us to the animal within all h...
Trump, Twitter, Circulation American Politics As Global Entertainment
September 28, 2017 07:30 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MB2017.09.11 The global circulation of Donald Trump’s political rhetoric during the presidential campaign of 2015-16 produced international dismay, bewilderment, and apprehension, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It also effected a rupture of the crucial divide between American popular culture and US politics—a distinction that allowed American cultural products, massively popular in the Middle East and elsewhere, to proliferate in places where U.S. politics were unpop...
Exit West: A Conversation with Novelist Mohsin Hamid
September 17, 2017 10:59 - 54 minutes - 75.2 MBSeptember 5, 2017 Internationally acclaimed novelist Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt, 2007) and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (Riverhead Books, 2013), speaks about his newest work Exit West (Riverhead Books, 2017). Set in a world much like modern society, with some surreal twists, this timely and highly acclaimed novel explores the experience of two ordinary people, Saeed and Nadia, who become refugees when their world is suddenly upended. Their conditi...
Expressive Communication Technologies for People with ALS
July 10, 2017 11:46 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBApril 20, 2017 ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a degenerative neuromuscular disease; people with late-stage ALS typically retain cognitive function, but lose the motor ability to speak, relying on gaze-controlled AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) devices for interpersonal interactions. State-of-the-art AAC technologies used by people with ALS do not facilitate natural communication; gaze-based AAC communication is extremely slow, and the resulting synthesized speech is ...
Histories of Imagining Urban Futures in Central Africa
July 10, 2017 11:41 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MBApril 25, 2017 Starting from ‘The Tower. A Concrete Utopia’ (2015), a video-installation made by Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji and Belgian anthropologist Filip De Boeck, this talk proposes a reflection on the legacy of modernist architecture in Kinshasa, the social afterlives of colonialist infrastructure, and different historical and contemporary utopian visions of the city, including those coming from Dubai, Abu Dhabi and other new urban hotspots. Reflecting upon colonial modernity’s...
Religion or Science How Early Muslim Thinkers Understood the Hidden Worlds
July 10, 2017 11:38 - 48 minutes - 66.9 MBMay 1, 2017 The premodern Muslim thinkers who undertook the task of surveying the entirety of the human experience attempted to account for not only the world of nature, but also the unseen worlds beyond the senses. This presentation examines the roles assigned to the occult sciences in two encyclopedic works composed in the 14th century: the Muqaddima, the famed Arabic introduction to history by the North African scholar Ibn Khaldun, and the Nafa’is al-fonun, a Persian encyclopedia by the I...
Research Using a Little Fish for Solving Big Health Problems
July 10, 2017 11:35 - 48 minutes - 66.9 MBMay 3, 2017 Diabetes. Obesity. Cancer. Chronic diseases are taking their toll on the world’s population, and their threat is rising. The instinct to accelerate research with a laser focus on finding treatments to halt these diseases in their tracks is shared by researchers, physicians, patients and the general public; but the race to the cure is not always the path to transformative discoveries. Basic understanding of the cellular, genetic, epigenetic and physiological processes that underli...
Narrating Palestine: A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi and Ismail Khalidi
June 25, 2017 12:10 - 1 hour - 93.6 MBApril 27, 2017 How can Palestinians most effectively represent their past and present to Western and Arab audiences? This event brings the scholar Rashid Khalidi into conversation with playwright Ismail Khalidi to discuss their academic and artistic trajectories and the ways in which art and scholarship approach Palestinian history and society in differing, complementary ways. Ismail Khalidi Playwright, Poet and Director Rashid Khalidi Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia...
The Xtransients Extreme Phenomena In The High Energy Universe
May 09, 2017 10:58 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MB2017.04.12 What are the most luminous explosions in space? What objects possess the strongest magnetic fields in nature?How can we hear the sirens of the Cosmos? In the last 30 years, High Energy and Gravitational Astrophysics have unveiled exciting new phenomena that address all these questions. Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest flashes in the gamma-ray sky, releasing in a few seconds as much energy as the Sun will release in its entire 10 billion year lifetime. Magnetars: young, slowly ro...
Are Animal Rights Islamic
May 09, 2017 10:52 - 44 minutes - 61.8 MB2017.04.09 In recent years, worldwide attention to the protection of animals has risen dramatically. Unlike the global movement for human rights, the animal rights movement has remained confined within particular countries, or regional groupings, operating without the guidance of an international framework or generally agreed upon principles. In this decentralized system of animal rights protection, the influences of religion, culture, and history have a substantial impact on the well-being ...
What Might It Mean For Security To Be Sustainable
May 09, 2017 10:51 - 52 minutes - 71.5 MB2017.04.03 This lecture is the keynote address for ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) 2017 People talk about what computing can do for sustainability, but a more concrete and urgent question is: How can computing itself become more sustainable? As more products go online—from medical devices to cars—pre-market testing no longer guarantees a product’s utility or safety. Their connectivity also requires ongoing software maintenance and updates, in order to ...
Letters To A Young Muslim
May 09, 2017 10:47 - 46 minutes - 64.2 MB2017.03.09 In a series of personal letters to his son, Omar Saif Ghobash offers a short and highly readable manifesto that tackles our current global crisis with the training of an experienced diplomat and the personal responsibility of a father. Today’s young Muslims will be tomorrow’s leaders, and yet too many are vulnerable to extremist propaganda that seems omnipresent in our technological age. The burning question, Ghobash argues, is how moderate Muslims can unite to find a voice that i...
What On Earth Is A Citizen Of The World
May 03, 2017 11:45 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MB2017.04.11 In the 4th century BCE, Diogenes of Sinope claimed that the whole world was his hometown. Since then, that idea has influenced hundreds of generations of people including figures as diverse as Rumi in 13th century Persia, and Montaigne in 16th century France. Surely Diogenes’ claim was ahead of its time, since up to quite recently, the large majority of people didn’t know about or have the capacity to influence most other people in our “global village.” Today, in a world that is...
Tajdeed- Bringing Contemporary Arabic Stories To America
May 03, 2017 11:36 - 1 hour - 110 MB2017.04.06 In 2016, American literary magazine The Common published a special issue devoted to contemporary Arabic fiction. Co-edited by the journal's editor-in-chief Jennifer Acker and prominent Jordanian writer Hisham Bustani, the issue was the result of four years of collaboration that began in Abu Dhabi. Today, award-winning Egyptian writer Youssef Rakha, who contributed an introduction to the volume, joins the issue’s editors to discuss the 25 stories representing 15 countries across th...
Innovation And Aviation In The UAE
May 03, 2017 11:26 - 54 minutes - 75.5 MB2017.04.04 An efficient and productive aviation sector can be a strong driver of economic growth. In order to support the development of the sector, the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is committed to cultivating a culture of innovation. This will lead to economic expansion and the reduction of environmental risks in the air transportation services industry. This lecture explores how the focus on research and innovation throughout the sector not only leads to more efficient aircr...
The Falcon Genome Project Diversity, Population Structure And Local Adaptation
May 03, 2017 10:30 - 1 hour - 92.6 MB2017.03.29 The Falcon Genome Project commenced in 2010 and resulted in de novo genome assemblies for the peregrine and saker falcons in 2013, which have been used to understand avian evolution, demography and evolutionary adaptation. The two reference genomes have been the basis for further exploration into adaptation in saker falcons across their geographic range in Eurasia, resulting in some surprising patterns and inferences on the recent history of this species. This lecture describes th...
The Politics Of Islamic Militancy
May 03, 2017 10:26 - 1 hour - 89.2 MB2017.03.27 Since the 1920s the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has promoted the formal interpretation of Islam in the Kingdom, commonly referred to as Salafism or Wahhabism, through its missionary efforts abroad. However, Salafism is also the religious doctrine to which many Sunni militants subscribe. As a result, some political pundits and the media have frequently linked Saudi Arabia's missionary activity with the rise of Islamic militancy. This lecture explores the alleged connection and question...
Workforce Needs, Security Imperatives: The Liberal Arts in the 21st Century
May 03, 2017 08:53 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MB2017.03.15 Universities are proliferating around the world to meet the growing demand for graduates equipped with work-ready skills, and for research that produces innovative approaches to human security. But what kind of study and inquiry actually serves those purposes? Is the rush to address today’s problems leaving us ill-prepared for tomorrow’s tasks? In fact, what happens when students are exposed to a variety of approaches to their world, and researchers are encouraged to follow their ...
Muslim Millennials Today Identity And Religion
May 03, 2017 08:52 - 52 minutes - 71.4 MB2017.03.12 The Arab world’s experience over the last two years has cast more light on questions of religion, religious leadership and religious life than at any time in the region’s recent history. Common narratives about the “problem” abound, but few, if any, people have asked critical questions like: How do young Arabs think of their faith today? Who do they go to for religious concerns? How do they make sense of their religious identity and their faith’s role in society? This panel showca...
Obtaining Legal Personhood For Nonhuman Animals
May 03, 2017 08:36 - 57 minutes - 79 MB2017.03.07 World-renowned animal rights attorney Steven Wise talks about his ground-breaking efforts to win legal personhood status for highly intelligent animals such as chimpanzees, elephants, and whales. The author of four books on the history of animal law, he has gone toe to toe with some of the best legal minds in the world, in defense of his efforts on behalf of sentient beings with no rights to defend themselves. Wise made history by filing lawsuits on behalf of caged chimps, cases ...
Philosophy in the Islamic World Without Any Gaps
April 24, 2017 09:56 - 54 minutes - 75.3 MB2017.02.28 In a series of podcasts, now published as a book, Peter Adamson attempts to tell the story of philosophy in the Islamic world "without any gaps.” The goal is to include all authors and texts from the Islamic world worthy of historical consideration. More an ambition than a feasible goal, this editorial curatorship raises numerous questions. Is this really the story of philosophy only among Muslims, or also among Jews and Christians? To what extent did philosophy undergo a "decline...
Muhammad Ali Said Veteran of the American Civil War
April 24, 2017 09:51 - 45 minutes - 62.2 MB2017.02.26 Muhammad Ali Sa'id was born in West Africa, the son of a leading general in the African state of Borno. Enslaved as a teenager and taken across the Sahara in the early 1850s, he eventually found himself in North America, a free man. In North America he enjoyed a distinguished military career fighting for The Union in the US Civil War. This lecture explores the unique story of Ali Sa'id and provides a framework for the discussion of topics such as: the jihad movement in West Afric...
How We Find (or Don't Find) Things
April 24, 2017 09:46 - 55 minutes - 76.5 MB2017.02.20 We cannot simultaneously recognize every object in our field of view. As a result, we deploy attention from object to object or place to place, searching for what we need. This works quite well because our search can be guided by the features of the targets we seek, and the structure of the scenes in which those targets are embedded. Nevertheless, there are times when the search does not work perfectly and we intermittently fail to find what we seek. When those missed targets are ...
Grid Cells and The Brains Map of Space
April 24, 2017 09:42 - 1 hour - 105 MB2017.02.07 The entorhinal cortex and the hippocampus are elements of the brain’s circuit for spatial navigation and memory. This talk demonstrates that the entorhinal cortex contains grid cells – cells with firing fields that tile environments in a periodic hexagonal pattern, like an internal coordinate system – as well as cells that monitor direction, speed, and local borders. Collectively, these cells form the elements of a positioning system that dynamically monitors our changing location...
Perception Where Past and Future Meet
April 24, 2017 09:40 - 53 minutes - 73.6 MB2017.02.13 We take our perception as truth. But what ends up in our mindscape is far from veridical. We are fooled in many ways. We believe our perception is complete, giving us access to all of the rich details of our external environment as it unfolds. We believe our perception is reactive, with incoming sensory stimulation initiating activity in our brain. We assume our perception starts and lives in the present, bringing in the unravelling world afresh. Drawing from experiments in cognit...
The Sociopolitical Import of Recreational Genetics
April 24, 2017 09:36 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MB2017.02.05 DNA is a master key that unlocks medical and forensic secrets, but its genealogical life is also revelatory. Tracing genealogy is now the second-most popular hobby amongst Americans. This billion-dollar industry has spawned popular television shows, websites, and a booming heritage tourism circuit. However, this talk reveals how genetic genealogy is also being propelled into a variety of sociopolitical uses, including kin-keeping, reparations politics, citizenship projects, and pu...
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The Story of Reason in Islam
February 20, 2017 06:35 - 1 hour - 159 MB2016.12.06 The Story of Reason in Islam narrates a sweeping intellectual history—a quest for knowledge inspired by the Qu'ran and its language, a quest that employed Reason in the service of Faith. Eschewing the conventional separation of Faith and Reason, the author takes a fresh look at why and how Islamic reasoning evolved over time. He surveys the different Islamic schools of thought and how they dealt with major philosophical issues, showing that Reason pervaded all disciplines, from ph...
Salam Neighbor
February 20, 2017 06:19 - 18 minutes - 42.8 MB2016.12.08 What is it like to live in a refugee camp? Two American filmmakers head to Jordan’s largest refugee camp, just seven miles from the Syrian border, to live among 80,000 refugees.
Serving the God of Justice and Mercy- Muslim and Christian Perspectives
February 20, 2017 06:11 - 50 minutes - 69.1 MB2017.01.11 Islam and Christianity share the vision of being universal and missionary religions, both about equally strong in number of followers. Focusing on the relationship of Christianity and Islam, this panel considers the following question: how do Muslims and Christians serve the same God, who for both is God of Justice and Mercy, God of Majesty and Beauty, omnipotent and omnipresent? Both Muslims and Christians know that their ultimate destiny is anchored in the justice and mercy of Go...