“Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Ahmed Aboul Gheit has met a delegation from Qatar's Committee for the Alliance of Civilizations, led by HE Ambassador Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Sada, in Cairo.During the meeting, the Qatari delegation reviewed initiatives and projects launched by the State of Qatar in the field of the Alliance of Civilizations. These included the Qatar Global Award for Dialogue Among Civilizations, the Alliance of Civilizations Magazine, and the Encyclopedia of Occidentalism.The delegation said the encyclopedia is the first project of its kind in the Arab and Islamic world aimed at understanding Western societies from an Islamic perspective.At the end of the meeting, the delegation presented Aboul Gheit with a copy of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Occidentalism.
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