Only good can come out of building a mosque in Athens

Monday, 28 February 2011, Gennadius Library, 61 Souidias Street, Kolonaki, Athens

In collaboration with Intelligence Squared Greece (IQ2), the British Council organised a debate on a timely topic that brought high-profile speakers from Greece and the UK together – and against each other – in a heated debate that gave plenty of food for thought.


Tariq Ramadan and Petra Stienen at the first Our Shared Europe IQ2 debate in February 2010

Speaking for the motion

• Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University.
• Anna Triandafyllidou is Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens.
• Chadi Ayoubi is a journalist, Al Jazeera correspondent in Greece and founder of www.islam.gr.

Flemming Rose and Douglas Murray at the first Our Shared Europe IQ2 debate in February 2010

Speaking against the motion

• Douglas Murray is an author and Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC), a non-partisan think-tank in the UK.
• Melanie Phillips is the author of The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power and Londonistan. She is a journalist and winner of the Orwell Prize.
• Demetrius Floudas is Adjunct Professor at the Moscow Institute for the Development of Financial Markets and Senior Associate at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

Chair

• Sotiris Roussos is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of the Peloponnese.

Please find more detailed information at the website of the British Council in Greece.