I would like to underline two points: one, that Adyan foundation and the publications of Prof. Adel Theodore Khoury, among which the book Divine Hospitality: the theology of the other in Christianity and Islam, of Fr. Dr. Fadi Daou and Dr. Nayla Tabbara, meet my own continuous endeavor to assert the importance of openness between Islam and Christianity, between Muslims and Christians, from a faith-based and not folkloric perspective, with a scientific approach and not a spontaneous populist one. What struck me in the book’s conclusion is its background: the book is a structured theological word, directed at the believer to put him in front of his belief because the ignorance that hurts the relations between religions is the ignorance of one’s own belief, more that it is the ignorance of the other’s belief. The second point is that I read with a lot of interest the Islamic part, and I found it written from a believer’s perspective, excavating the Islamic history, the Qur’an, and the verses and positions that stress the openness of Islam and its acceptance of the other and of other religions, and that was a big source of joy for me.

(Published in Al Hayat, 29 December 2012)