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Inside this edition 12 - 18 August 2008
The power of a Jewish-Muslim narrative
by Jan Hjärpe
Professor emeritus Jan Hjärpe of Sweden's Lund University discusses
the importance of narratives in this third article in a series on
Muslim-Jewish relations. Hjärpe considers whether it is possible to
transform divisive "us" and "them" worldviews into common narratives.
(Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 12 August 2008)