Does Intercultural Dialogue matter?

The book is finally published. I talked to the publisher yesterday. He told me that is sent to me on Monday (20.5). it can arrive any minute today. I cant wait seeing "Does Intercultural Dialogue Matter?".  It has been almost one year not writing here. I concentrated on finishing it and writing it up. A very good friend of mine, who is a nobel and strict English editor, helped me a lot. I sent the book at the beginning of March 2019 to the LIT publishing center. It took yes tooooooooooooooo long. Because somebody in charge of designing the book, in LIT, was ill and then unfortunately a bit disordered and improper to make her job done. But lets not complain. Not anymore. The book is on his way.

For a long time I had no time and opportunity to write about the book project, here. Though I was active to manage relevant things for it. I am grateful to share here that Seyed Mohammad Khatami, the former president of Iran (1997-2005), send a foreword for my book. I have to of course translate the text to English. The text is very nice and poetic written in Farsi. I am really happy that he trusted me and lets his word comes at the beginning of the book.  his text is short and at the end of the text I see his presonal greetings to me, in his own handwriting. I hope the book reflects interesting points. then that would be a good combination of analysis on dialogue and words of somebody who tried to extend the dialogue culture in the Iranian society a decade ago.  Thanks to Miss. Sadr for her strong and uninterrupted supports...

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...