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Conference organized by Oasis International Foundation and ASERI on 15th October 2026

American scholar Gabriel Said Reynolds argues that the Qur’an took shape in a context deeply permeated by Christianity, challenging the theory that it emerged in a predominantly pagan environment

The signing of the Memorandum between the United States and Iran has temporarily halted the war but left the decisive issues unresolved. Instead, it reveals the limits of military force and the failure of the regional strategy designed to contain Tehran

During nearly forty years in Pakistan, the Dutch Franciscan missionary carried out an unparalleled body of biblical and liturgical translations that enabled the emerging local Catholic Church to enter into profound dialogue with the country’s Muslim spirituality. An interview with American scholar Charles Ramsey

From the story of Esther to the rhetoric on Iran and Palestine: how the Purim narrative is being enlisted in Israeli nationalist-religious discourse and why a comprehensive reading of the Bible undercuts its use as a justification for war.

As Orthodoxy becomes an increasingly contested geopolitical arena, Turkey finds itself in a uniquely ambivalent position as a secular, Muslim-majority state hosting the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Istanbul, quietly balancing pragmatism, domestic constraints, and great-power rivalries

While the regime pours resources into regional ambitions, domestic discontent grows: poverty, repression, and a generation that rejects the politicization of religion. Interview with exiled Iranian intellectual Mohsen Kadivar

Over the years, the Afghan branch of ISIS has managed to evolve from being a disparate and precarious rabble into a disciplined, efficient and ideologised group with the capacity to extend its operations beyond the purely regional level

Aged 81, Fr. Gianmaria Gianazza is about to complete the critical edition of the Book of the Tower, a huge ecumenical encyclopedia of the Church of the East which was written in Arabic at the beginning of the eleventh century

A conversation with Mark C. Thompson, head of the Socioeconomics Program at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (Riyadh), on societal transformations in Saudi Arabia

In Iraq, the factions aligned with the Iran-led Axis of Resistance are confronting the American troops while also aiming to gain full control of the Iraqi state

Bangladesh is among the top six migrant source countries in the world. Even though the choice of the UK has traditionally been the top destination for long-term Bangladeshi migrants, Italy has recently emerged as one of their major European destinations