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Khalid Duran: Religion Bridger |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / PEOPLE IN THE NEWS |
| Author: Robert R. Selle |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2002 |
| Size: 1,774 Words, 10,875 Characters |
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His father was a Muslim businessman from Morocco who worked in Germany and his mother a Roman Catholic from Spain. His wife is a black Catholic from Kenya among whose other family members are Muslims and evangelical Christians. One of his daughters once told her young friends, "My dad is white, my mom is black, and I am golden."
Duran himself is a Muslim who was raised in Spain and Germany; spent years studying Islam in Morocco, Bosnia, and Pakistan; immersed himself from 1961 to 1968 in political science and sociology at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin; traveled widely throughout the Muslim world and especially South Asia; and then taught at universities in Pakistan, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia, and the United States in the departments of anthropology, history, religion, and so...
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...ated conflicts to be overcome through people simply becoming more familiar with each other. He finds himself amazed that in a situation like the Arab-Israeli conflict each side has such misconceptions and ignorance about the other.
"As people get to know each other better," he says, "fear is diminished," conflict eases, and friendship ripens. "We've got to get to know each other more."
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