2. AIESEC-Mainz Forum - Bridging the Gap

**AGENDA**
2nd AIESEC-Mainz Forum on December the first 2007
Bridging the Gap between Arab and Western Worlds
TIME		EVENT
09:00 - 09:35		Address of Welcome Prof. Dr. Günter Meyer (President of the German and European Association for Middle Eastern Studies, DAVO and EURAMES) Hans-Joachim Dönges (President of AIESEC Germany) Prof. Dr. Georg Krausch (President of the University of Mainz) Doris Ahnen (Minister for education, sciences, youth and culture)
09:40 - 10:30		"Die Arabische Welt" Prof. Dr. Escher (Spokesman of the Kompetenzzentrums Orient Okzident KOOM, Mainz)
10:45 - 11:45		"Building Bridges between Arab and Western Worlds" Prof. Dr. Radwan Al Sayyed (Representative for the Secretary General of the League of Arab States, Beirut)
12:00 - 13:00		"Education in the Arab World" Dr. Nader Fergany (President of Al Mishkat Centre in Cairo, Coordinator of the Arab Human Development Report)
13:00 - 14:30		Lunchtime Art exhibition and fair about the topic at hand
14:30 - 15:30		"Friedliche Lösungen oder arabischer Kalter Krieg? Zur Vermeidung neuer Konfliktlinien in Nah-und Mittelost" Dr. Guido Steinberg (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik/ German Institute for Political and International Affairs, Berlin)
15:45 - 16:45		"Das andere Arabien. Politik und Geistesleben zwischen Modernisierung und Selbstbehauptung" Prof. Dr. Udo Steinbach (Director of the GIGA Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, Hamburg)
17:00 - 18:00		"Jugend in der Arabischen Welt" Julia Gerlach (editor, journalist, author for "ZDF" and "Zeit", Frankfurt)
from 18:00		arab gastronomic specialties