I am Father John Langan. I am a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University. I mostly teach Ethics in International Affairs but I am also actively involved in interreligious dialog. I have been thinking about making this trip for a ...
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Feed SubscriptionHerold White, Senior Jewish Chaplain at Georgetown University, sharing his experience in Turkey during a trip with RumiForum
My name is Herold White. I am a rabbi. I have been on the faculty at Georgetown for forty years. I have been a member of campus ministry. I was the first rabbi appointed to a full-time position at a ...
Read More »Abla Sonbol, sharing her experience in Turkey during a trip with RumiForum
My name is Abla Sonbol, and I am a student at the American University in Cairo, and study political science. When my mom first told me that we were going to Turkey, I thought it was going to be somewhat ...
Read More »Amira Sonbol, Professor of History at Georgetown University, sharing her experience in Turkey during a trip with RumiForum:
My name is Amira Sonbol. I am a professor at Georgetown University, the Center for Muslim Christian Understanding. I teach Middle East History, therefore I know a lot about Turkey and a lot about the Ottoman Empire, since that’s what ...
Read More »Andrea Jones, Pastor at Chestnut Grove Baptist Church, sharing her experience in Turkey during a trip with RumiForum
My name is Andrea Jones and I am a Pastor in Earlysville, Virginia, and I am also a doctoral student at Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond. Some of the things have already been said but I did notice also that ...
Read More »Brent Jones, Phd Student at University of Virginia, sharing his experience in Turkey during a trip with RumiForum
My name is Brent Jones, I am a PhD student at the University of Virginia in American Religious History. Like Mike I agree that, I imagined mostly a group of the Christians or even secular intellectuals travelling around a Muslim ...
Read More »Don Zigler, Geographer at Old Dominion University, sharing his experience in Turkey during a trip with RumiForum:
I am Don Zigler, I am a geographer at Old Dominion University, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This trip didn’t really start for me a week ago; it started perhaps eight or more years ago when Zafer first appeared in my ...
Read More »Edward Campana, Professor at the Strayer University, sharing his experience in Turkey during a trip with RumiForum
I am Ed Campana. I teach Humanities at Strayer University in the Washington DC area. It is working adults who take usually four hour classes once a week. I want to thank, and this is not pro-forma; I mean it ...
Read More »Edward Ondrako, Professor at the Catholic University of America, sharing his experience in Turkey during a trip with RumiForum
I am Ed Ondrako, I am a Franciscan, and I would like to echo the magnificent sentiments that we have been listening to all evening, particularly emphasizing the gifts that are brought by everybody in this room, from the leaders, ...
Read More »Kai Henrik Barth, Professor at Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, talking about his trip to Turkey with RumiForum:
My name is Kai Henrik Barth. I am a Professor in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University where I teach in the Security Studies Program. My own portfolio is technology and security. I would like to ...
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