PROGRAM

9.00 am
Greetings

Efisio Luigi Marras
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Directorate General for the Countries of the Mediterranean and Middle East:

9.30 am
Overview of the Problems

Chairs
Vittorio Ianari
Comunità di Sant’Egidio

Tarek Mitri
Minister of Information, Lebanon

Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Custos of the Holy Land

Louis Sako
Archbishop of  Kerkūk of the Chaldeans, Irak

Mohammed Esslimani
Islamic Theologian, Saudi Arabia

Coffee break

11.30 am
The Resources of a Common History

Chairs
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Former President of the Republic of Italy

Paul Yazigi
Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo

Abdel Rady Radwan
Cairo University, Egypt

GhalebMoussa Abdalla Bader
Archbishop of Algers

3.00 pm
Telling the World to the Middle East, and Tellling the Middle East to the World

Chairs
Marco Impagliazzo
Comunità di Sant’Egidio

Radwan Al Sayyid
Political Analyst and editorialist  “As-Sharq Al-Awsat”, Libano

Jean Claude Petit
President of the National Center of the Catholic Press, France

Mohamed Krichen
“Al Jazeera TV Channel”, Qatar

Coffee break

5 pm
Greetings

Leonardo Sandri
Prefect Congregation for Eastern Churches

5.30 pm
Vison and Prophecy in Spiritual Figures

Chairs
Andrea Riccardi
Comunità di Sant’Egidio

Antoine Audo
Bishop of  Aleppo of the Chaldeans

Marco Impagliazzo
Comunità di Sant’Egidio

Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim
Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo

Mohammad Sammak
Political Advisor of the Great Mufty of Lebanon

Paul Youssef Matar
Archbishop of Beyrouth of the Maronites