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Breaking the Veils: Women artists from the Islamic World

An international touring Painting exhibition curated and assembled by the Royal Society of Fine Arts of Jordan and the Pan-Mediterranean Women Artists Network F.A. M (Femme –Art –Méditerranée) based in Greece. It included 70 artworks by 51 female artists from...

CapoeirArab - Syria

National Network
Syria
Address

PO BOX:34512, Jamia Faruk, Baghdad St., Damascus - Syria
Damascus
Syria

Telephone
00963 (0) 9339 25 704
E-Mail
info@capoeirarab.com
Mobile Phone
00963 (0) 9339 25 704
Organisation Type
Other
Year of Establishment
2007
Fields of Activity
  1. Youth and education
General Information
PARTICIPANTS Our programs encourage youth participation from all sectors of Syrian society. Our regular training sessions attract a diverse constituency of residents in Damascus who wish to benefit from regular fitness and nurture a passion for the art form. We also pursue collaborative workshops and seminars with internationally renowned capoeira mestres from Brazil and Europe, in addition to regional gatherings with schools based in Lebanon, Oman, Dubai and Turkey.
Mission and Objectives

FOUNDING PRINCIPLES
CapoeirArab is dedicated to social development of youth through the means of capoeira. The organization embraces values such as heterogeneity, cooperation and respect for the other, using capoeira as a common ground for social integration and discourse.

Main Projects / Activities

Social activity Free for Kids
Classes are aimed at taking the kids off the streets to unite and educate them all Kids who are interested in Capoeira and can’t afford the Training will not be charged.
Khaled bin Al-Walid Youth Reformatory
Dates: Start October 2008
Activity: Capoeira training and performance with the teenage inmates,
(boys) music and traditional Brazilian Dance.
Location: Khaled bin Al-Walid Youth Reformatory for boys, Damascus
Performance required: Sport and re - socialisation activities with over 250 teenagers
In cooperation with UNICEF and Caritas Damascus, Syria
Dates: Start October 2008 - twice a week
Activity: Capoeira training and performance with the Iraqi refugee children,
music and traditional Brazilain Dance
Performance required: “Child Protection Specialists”- Program in Geramana with over 600 children
Location: Zeizuna Church, Bab Sharque
NGO Terres des hommes Italia;
Title: Al Tanf – Refugee Camp
Dates: 7th and 8th of May 2009
Activity: Capoeira training and performance with the local teenagers,
music and traditional Brazilian Dance
Performance required: Sport and re - socialisation activities with over 200 teenagers
Location: Al Tanf – Camp; Syrian – Iraqi boarder

Contact (1) Full Name
Tarek Alsaleh
Head of the organisation
Tarek Alsaleh
Contact (2) Full Name
Isaac Heinrich

Centre of Islamic Studies

National Network
Syria
Address


Damascus
Syria

Telephone
+963 11 4418402
Telephone (other)
+936 11 4460665
Fax
+936 11 4460665
E-Mail
drhabash@scs-net.org
E-Mail (2)
drhabash@altajdeed.org
Mobile Phone
+936 94 773939
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
General Information
1. number of employees 5 2. personal funding 3. intellectual foundation 4. A group of researchers , religious scholars , and university professors (volunteers)
Mission and Objectives

.Promotion of innovated activities in the Arabic and Islamic World .
.Contribution to an Islamic-Islamic dialogue taking into consideration different religious sectors and rejection of intolerance and expiation .
.Initiation of an Islamic-secular dialogue and promotion of joint Islamic -Christian activities .

Main Projects / Activities

.Receiving delegation from all over the world .
.Clarifying Arabic and Islamic causes .
.Search for global common areas .
.Oraganising seminars and conferences related to religious messages and modern ideas and participation in international and Arabic conferences and cultural centres .

Contact (1) Full Name
Mr. Mahmoud Keftarou
Head of the organisation
Dr. Mohamed Al Habashi
Contact (2) Full Name
Mr. Youssef Kassbaty
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Cinema of the Arab World

This volume engages new films and modes of scholarly research in Arab cinema, and older, often neglected films and critical topics, while theorizing their structural relationship to contemporary developments in the Arab world. The volume considers the relationship of Arab...

Culture Seminar Association for Women

National Network
Syria
Address

Al Rowda, Ziyad bin Abi Sofian, Al Hariri
Damascus
Syria

Telephone
00963 11 3331622
Fax
00963 11 3331622
E-Mail
Alnadwa-women@mail.sy
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1942
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Youth and education
General Information
• Charitable, Cultural, and Social Association • One million Syrian Lira • Donations, and memberships.
Mission and Objectives

• Supporting and assisting poor students (females) and their families
• Women development; culturally, technically, and socially
• Establishment of a public library

Main Projects / Activities

• Holding lectures, training courses for female students – seminars
• Raising awareness among mothers
• Distribution of materials and financial donations among students in three occasions: Ramadan, mother’s day, school opening.
• Providing libraries with new publications and books.

Head of the organisation
Mrs Amira Diab

Dar Al Assad for Culture and Arts

National Network
Syria
Address

Located on the southern-eastern corner of the Umayyad Square, behind the Damascene Sword Statue, facing Al Assad National Library
Damascus
Syria

Telephone
00963 11 2458031
Telephone (other)
00963 11 2455835
Fax
00963 11 2456685
E-Mail
Opera-manager@mail.sy
E-Mail (2)
Opera-relations@mail.sy
Mobile Phone
00963 94 439330
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
2004
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Heritage
  3. International/Cultural relations
General Information
• Established by legislative decree no. /19/ of 2003 that states establishment of a general association named "Dar Al Assad for Culture and Arts.Government Institution subordinate to the Ministry of Culture – Number of staff 231 • 70 million Syrian Lira • Government allocation • Ministry of Culture
Mission and Objectives

• To spread, develop and enhance music and theatre cultures, and revive the cultural, public, and artistic national heritage.
• To inform the society of Arab as well as international arts of music and theatre
• To encourage national creativeness on artistic, social and cultural levels.
• To upgrade arts of music, theatre, and artistic dance.

Main Projects / Activities

Some of the future activities:
• A music symposium on the occasion of the 3rd death anniversary of the Syrian musician Najeeb Al-Sarraj
• A musical concert from Turkey given by Cihit Askin in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Damascus.
• A music concert given by the National Symphony Orchestra and in cooperation with Embassy of the Republic of Austria in Damascus,

Contact (1) Full Name
Mr Yasser Al Ayoubi
Head of the organisation
Dr Nabil Al -Lao
Contact (2) Full Name
Mr Mahmoud Shehab

Department of Ecumenical Relations and Development at Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch

National Network
Syria
Address

Medhat Pasha, old city
Damascus
Syria

Telephone
009631154498720
Telephone (other)
009631154498722
Fax
009631154498721
E-Mail
laham-s@scs-net.org
E-Mail (2)
melhemm@hotmail.com
Mobile Phone
00963944359354
Mobile Phone (other)
00963933344406
Organisation Type
Other
Year of Establishment
1998
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Environment/Sustainable development
  3. Gender
  4. Heritage
  5. Human rights
  6. International/Cultural relations
  7. Religion
  8. Research
  9. Youth and education
General Information
1.the department is one of several departments which forms the patriarchate. - number of employees 14. Other external employees are project based. 2. the patriarchate,project partners. 3.youth, development, Iraqi refugees, ecumenical and intercultural projects. 4.MECC, WCC, UN agencies, international NGOs
Mission and Objectives

The departments aims empowering the ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue and contributing to the socio-economic development process for communities across the country based on coexistence and peace.
Objectives:
Encourage and empower ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue towards peace and coexistence.
Support capacity building projects aiming developing competences of faith based and NGO's on development.
Support projects with vulnerable communities across the country aiming social integration and poverty reduction.
Build sustainable partnerships towards better society.

Main Projects / Activities

Iraqi Refugees support project on education, vocational training, health and food.
Development projects
working with disadvantaged communities:
training courses on youth work and leadership with disadvantaged youth
volunteers missions to poor areas
seminars on development and youth
trainings on development and project management
creating interactive youth website for development
youth against violence project:
national training courses and workshops on combating violence
production of material
dialogue project:
east- West dialogue seminar
Danish- Syrian youth dialogue
visits coordination to Syria from churches

Contact (1) Full Name
Mr. Melhem Mansour
Head of the organisation
Mr. Samer Lahham