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The Tharwa Project
Enabling a more constructive dialogue over the issue of minorities rights in the Arab World

Despite the prevailing impressions and stereotypes, the Arab World is far from being a homogenous entity, and is actually made up of a dizzying array of religions, sects and ethnic groups. Throughout history, each of these groups has managed to pursue its own unique line of interaction with the majority population on the one hand, and with other minority groups on the other.

Still, and while some of these experiments seem to have afforded the groups involved certain basic rights and privileges that were often respected by the majority population, not to mention the governments and rulers concerned, contact with the West, the birth of nationalism and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire have created a situation whereby new formula for peaceful coexistence and mutual acceptance need to be established.

The current rise in Islamic extremism and the US intervention in Iraq have combined to make the need for addressing minority issues even more urgent. 

The Tharwa Project, a DarEmar initiative implemented in cooperation with Pax Christi Nederland, seeks to create a forum for addressing these issues and other similar concerns pertaining to the relationship between the important concepts of minority rights and democracy as the two main pillars of civil society. For more information the Tharwa Project, please visit the project's website at: www.tharwaproject.com.

To help support the activities and programs of DarEmar, please contact support@daremar.org.
 

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