Does Intercultural Dialogue matter?

I finished chapter 3 and started the next chapter. It is strange. Turning my dissertation to a book is full of surprises to me. For instance I realized that how much nonsense I have written in the thesis! Too long, too details, too blah blah! Is that just me or anybody else has the same experience! I mean why I used so many facts and info for simple points. This chapter, 4, is on actors of intercultural dialogue in Iran and Germany and specific discourses.  I have specifically worked on “interfaith dialogue” and “dialogue among civilizations” in Iranian side. In Germany the discourse of “European-Islamic cultural dialogue” has been prominent. The chapter besides presenting details on these discourses discusses the actors. For instance DAAD has been one of the German actors. In foreign cultural policy of Germany academic exchanges have attracted a high attention of elites and policy makers. And it has a loooooooooooong history. It goes back to even time before the Weimar R...

The timer of the weblog shows that I have 93 days to the date of publication. Today I continued to work on chapter 2. I was actually satisfied because I gave thoughts to it and I decided to move a part of it to the third chapter. It makes more sense to discuss the role of culture in foreign policy of Iran ad Germany in a chapter which focuses on foreign cultural policy. It includes some historic points. But still it belongs to the discussion of foreign cultural policy.  So what I am preparing as a book is something like this: 1.introduction 2.historic points of German-Iranian relationship 3.foreign cultural policy and actors (of both countries) 4.intercultural dialogue, actors and activities 5.analysis:why does intercultural dialogue matter? Today I got a very nice photo from an amazing friend, Mrs. Fatemeh Sadr, the director of Center for Dialogue in Iran. you can see it here. It written “ Čerā Goftogu mikonim?” which means in English: “why do we have dia...