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The Middle East Institute (MEI) is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank and cultural centre in Washington, D.C., founded in 1946. [2] It seeks to "increase knowledge of the Middle East among the United States citizens and promote a better understanding between the people of these two areas." [3]
Institutions founded before the colonial era and which are still in operation: . University of Al-Qarawiyyin, Morocco, the oldest existing, continually operating and the first degree-awarding educational institution in the world according to UNESCO and Guinness World Records.
The Al-Azhar is considered by some as the world's second oldest surviving degree-granting institute. [citation needed] According to the Encyclopedia of Islam, Al-Azhar was a religious university, a madrasa and center of higher learning. [8]
Hezbollah organizes an extensive social development program and runs hospitals, news services, educational facilities, and encouragement of Nikah mut‘ah. [3] [6] Some of its established institutions are: Emdad committee for Islamic Charity, [7] Hezbollah Central Press Office, Al Jarha Association, [8] and Jihad Al Binaa Developmental Association. [9]
A number of scholars of Al-Azhar and some Egyptian politicians supported this forum and its secretary general Sheikh Qomi. Another attempt to achieve proximity between different schools of Islam was the publication of Risalat al-Islam Magazine (Arabic: مجلة رسالة الاسلام) by jam'iyyat al-tagrib bayn al-madhahib al-islamiyya in ...
An Iranian-born research scientist who filed a federal discrimination lawsuit alleging a co-worker at the University of Alabama at Birmingham harassed her for nine years because of her ethnicity ...
MERI publishes its findings and conduct its policy debates in three languages, including English, Arabic and Kurdish. The institute has conducted numerous research projects and published quality reports on ISIL, internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees and minority rights, [4] post-war reconciliation, governance system reforms, promoting human rights (protecting minority's rights ...
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) is located at the American University of Beirut (AUB). [1] This independent institute develops policy research in the Arab region. [1] It is currently headed by Joseph Bahout. [2] The Institute won a prestigious architecture award in 2016. [3]