ENAWU

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the Electronic Network for Arab-West Understanding (ENAWU), an ambitious project to establish a self-sustaining, specialized information network that will link together, through a multi-lingual web-based portal, a worldwide network of knowledge institutes and information repositories, with the following purposes:

• Fostering relations and dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims
• Providing access to accurate, credible and reliable information for use by scholars, diplomats, journalists, students, other researchers and general users
• Improving public understanding of the contemporary Islamic world in non-Muslim countries and, similarly, improving public understanding of the contemporary non-Muslim world in Islamic countries
• Strengthening, improving and expanding reporting and analyses of Arab-West cultural, religious and other key issues involving civil society, both in the Arab world and in the West
• Changing the ways in which we speak and write about people belonging to other cultures or religions, and in particular refraining from polemics, exaggerations and other forms of distortion

Through the ENAWU project and its strong Egyptian, Arab, European and other partnerships, we hope to develop powerful tools that will lead to a well informed public in Arab countries whose populations are often ill-informed or misled about Western and Judeo-Christian cultural traditions, and Western publics who are ill-informed or misled about Arab and Muslim cultural traditions, especially through articles and reports that are biased or based on inaccurate reporting or misinterpretation of facts.