Qantara.de

Qantara.de (Arabic: Qantara = bridge ) is an Internet portal of Deutsche Welle, which is to promote intellectual dialogue with the culture of Islam in the languages ​​German, English, Arabic and Turkish.

The portal is based on an initiative of the German Foreign Ministry, in response to the critical development of the relationship with the Islamic world after the shock of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the United States. Partner of Deutsche Welle in operation since March 2003, the online platform, accessible from the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb ), the Goethe -Institut (GI ) and the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa ); The project is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The dialogue project makes it his mission to promote understanding between different cultures, with the goal of eliminating existing knowledge gaps and to counter prejudice.

Claim of the editorial team is to allow the publication of such western and Islamic authors and support to those looking in times of crisis, open and respectful discussion about similarities on issues under discussion. These included the launch offer of the platform, for example, the Egyptian scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid, the German ex- diplomat and Muslim Murad Hofmann, the Islamic theologian Halima frills, the conflict researcher Heiner Bielefeldt and the physicist Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker.