Qantara.de
| qantara.de | |
|---|---|
| http://de.qantara.de | |
| description | Internet portal |
| languages | German , English and Arabic |
| owner | German wave |
| Published | 2003 |
Qantara.de ( Arabic قنطرة: Qantara = bridge) is an internet portal of Deutsche Welle , which is supposed to promote the intellectual dialogue with the culture of Islam in the languages German , English , Arabic and Turkish .
The portal goes back to an initiative of the German Foreign Ministry , in reaction to the critical development of the relationship with the Islamic world after the shock of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in the USA . The dialogue project has set itself the task of promoting understanding between the various cultures, with the aim of eliminating existing knowledge deficits and counteracting prejudices.
The aim of the editorial team is to enable and supervise the publication of such western and Islamic authors who seek open and respectful discussion about commonalities as well as contentious topics even in times of crisis. These included, for example, the Egyptian literary scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid , the German ex-diplomat and Muslim Murad Hofmann , the Islamic theologian Halima Krausen , the conflict researcher Heiner Bielefeldt and the physicist Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker .
Deutsche Welle's cooperation partners in operating the platform, which has been accessible online since March 2003, are the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), the Goethe Institute (GI) and the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa); the project is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this funding should expire at the end of 2014, a follow-up funding was initially uncertain. At the end of 2015, however, the project continued to receive funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Web links
- German edition of Qantara.de (page no longer accessible)
- Information on the web portal Qantara.de (teacher online as teaching material)
- Entry in DNB 025309358
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Qantara.de Internet portal builds bridges to the Islamic world ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Federal Agency for Civic Education, Deutsche Welle, the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes and the Institute for Foreign Relations provide a platform for dialogue with the Islamic world. By Hartmut Wagner, eurasischesmagazin.de issue 04-03, April 24, 2003
- ↑ Markus Bickel : Berlin is tearing down a bridge: out for Qantara.de , FAZ, September 20, 2014
- ↑ http://de.qantara.de/search/overview/seite%20C3%20BCber%20uns. In: Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World. Retrieved December 25, 2015 .
