In Tunisia and Egypt a process destined to go on for a long time, whatever path will be followed, including that of confusion, has just begun
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EDITORIAL
The Revolutions in North Africa: a Challenge for Everyone, Martino Diez
FOCUS
Between Christians and Muslims a Pathway of Communion, Antoine Audo
The Raft of Medusa and our Destiny, Mohammed Sammak
Two Genealogies and a New Generation, Malika Zeghal
The Movement of 2011 Began in 2005, Georges Corm
The story of an Incurable Global Conflict, Sabrina Mervin
My War is Holier Than Yours, Farhad Khosrokhavar
That Time Suspended Awaiting the Imam, Yann Richard
Thirty Years of (not always Achieved) Ambitions, Bernard Hourcade
Reformist Thought for the Mosaic-State, Saoud al-Mawla
Military Victory…or Glorious Death, Dominique Avon
A Homeland of Peoples or the Semblance of a Nation?, Hani Fahs
Blasphemy as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, Lisa Curtis
DOCUMENTS
Three Words Written into the Destiny of Venice, Benedict XVI
During the Night of Jesus, the Clash and the Union of Two Wills, Jospeh Ratzinger-Benedict XVI
“I Am Not Afraid, I Want to Live for Christ and I Can Die for Him”, Shahbaz Bhatti
And the Wise Bipdai Challenged the King, Suffered and Won, Ibn al Muqaffa‘
CONTRIBUTIONS
Where Tradition and Reason Meet, Javier Prades
Absolute and Imperfect Pluralism, Selim Daccache
Makassed, the School that Wants to the Save Peace, Hisham Nashabe
Those Walls Knocked Down by Medieval Islam, Sabine Schmidtke
Three Brothers from Damascus and a Hidden Treasure, Guy-Paul Noujaim
Spain: Where a Community Becomes a Lobby, Maria de los Ángeles Corpas Aguirre
REVIEWS
Prophecies of Arab Disorder, Michele Brignone
The Dramaturgy of a Failure, Pedro Fonseca
Within the Boundaries of the Shi’ite Crescent, Martino Diez
Saudi Arabia: History and Enigma, Martino Diez
Without Death We Are Inhuman, David Blazquez
A Masterful Exercise in Exegesis, Ignacio Carbajosa
The Saga of Revolutions Between Dreams, Successes and Betrayals, Emma Neri
PHOTO REPORTAGE
Discovering Christian Nubia, Claudio Lurati
Education, Women, Forgiveness. How a New Nation is Born, Lorenzo Fazzini
COLOPHON
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Year 7°, number 13, June 2010
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