Christianity, A History in the Middle East

Middle East Council of Churches

Beirut 2005

ISBN 9953-0-0343-2

933 pages

illustrated, with maps and index

US$ 80.-

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The Middle East Council of Churches is to be congratulated for publishing a beautiful volume about the Christian history of the Middle East. The 42 distinguished contributors have come from the many Christian traditions that the region is rich with, resulting in a very valuable and diverse description of the history of Middle Eastern Christianity.

HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan

HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan

delivered the following speech at the

Launch of the

Electronic Network for Arab-West Understanding

5th June, 2008, Amman, Jordan

titled:

The need to build a system for collective intelligence

Last week the General Assembly of the United Nations invited me to a conversation on the subject of ‘human security’.  The debate started at nine o'clock in the morning and ended at six o'clock in the evening. My text is available to all of you. It was an opportunity for me to touch on many topics, including collective intelligence; some ideas for the realisation of a global consultation process.

I thank Dr. Peter Kruse, Frank Shonburg and Ernst Handl for introducing the Hub 42 concept, a practice in consulting methods including Kubikfoto and NumaRete web applications, the work of about sixty staff members of an interdisciplinary team of a freelancer network, artist, psychologists, programmers, technicians, designers, and others . . .

(text of speech as word.doc)