FUJAIRAH INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE

WHY 3-RD WEEK OF NOVEMBER?

World Philosophy Day is celebrated every year on the 3rd week of November. On this occasion, Philosophy House is organizing the “Fujairah International Philosophy Conference” intending to emphasize the role of philosophy in developing human thought, promoting a culture of philosophical discussion, and the importance of philosophy in addressing many issues.

PHILOSOPHY & THE PRESENT

The discovery of the world’s deep movement has long been a source of interest and motivation for philosophy and philosophers. The course movement of history is not conveyed to us directly; rather, we must delve into this deep movement to uncover the connections and features that allow us to make probabilistic predictions about our history and its future.
However, the availability of learning from history and its truth is not given to us directly, so we have to delve into the depths in order to identify its dialectical interactions, understand its relevance, and attempt to anticipate its meaning for our present. The contemplation of this present entails capturing the widest range of possibilities, allowing us to turn any possibility into reality.

Based on this understanding, Philosophy House has taken on the task of examining our reality within a framework of prudent reflection on the totality of issues related to the present. In fact, the global dynamic process of general history does not allow any nation, state, or civilization to reflect on its reality without linking it to the history of the current world.
Working for a world in unity and committed to commemorate this thought, Philosophy House chose to host its second conference Philosophy and the Present on the occasion of the International Day of Philosophy. The conference framework includes the following topics:

The present and its philosophical manifestations
The Arab present, its challenges, and problems
The Arab present and the move into the future
Modernity or modernisation?
Human being and digital power
Philosophy and life: experiences and life issues
Philosophy and the present

The conference coincides with the International Day of Philosophy, giving it more meaning for the participants.

SPEAKERS

DAY 1

PANEL1

Panel Moderator
Dr Joseph Maalouf

Dr Ahmed Al-Barqawi - Palestine

Dean of the House of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, Academic - Philosopher - Poet
Head of the Department of Philosophy at Damascus University 1981-2013
Editor-in-chief of the House of Philosophy magazine

Topic :Thesis on the meaning of the present historical time

Dr Claude Vishnu Spaak -France

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Head of the Philosophy and Sociology Department
Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi

Topic: How does a French philosopher view the present?

Dr Arianne Conty- France

Associate Professor of Philosophy
American University of Sharjah

Topic: Values in a Changing World

PANEL 2

Panel Moderator
Dr Ibtihal Abdul Wahab

Dr. Shaya Al-Waqayan - Saudi

Saudi thinker and philosopher.

Topic: From the point of view of the present, why do we philosophize

Dr Muhammad Musbahi- Morocco

Moroccan writer and researcher,
doctorate in philosophy,
professor at Mohammed V University - Rabat- Morocco

Topic: Does philosophy have a role in Arab consciousness today?

DAY 2

PANEL 1

Panel Moderator
Dr Fahad Al Rewashed

Dr Muhammad Mahjoub -Tunisia

Ph D in the history of contemporary philosophy and a university qualification in philosophy,
Professor of Higher Education in Interpretation and the History of Contemporary Philosophy at the Higher Institute of Teachers, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Kairouan, Director of the Higher Institute of Human Sciences, Coordinator of the Arab Committee for the Translation of Philosophical Antiquities in the Arab Organization for Translation in Beirut. Founding
Director and Editor-in-Chief of My Journal: Annals of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics/Interpretations "Distinguished Professor of Interpretation and History of Philosophy / University of Tunis El Manar and a constant member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts" House of Wisdom

Topic: The current problems of Arab philosophy

Dr Hassan Hammad- Egypt

Professor of Philosophy , Member of the Egyptian Writers Union,
Former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Zagazig University, recipient of the State Appreciation Award

Topic :The Authority of the Holy in the Arab Current

PANEL 2

Panel Moderator
Dr Abdulallah Al Mateeri

Dr Khaled Kamoni - Lebanon

Professor of Philosophy at the Lebanese University, Head of the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Letters & Human Sciences at the Lebanese University Branch III (formerly),
Head of the Philosophical and Hermeneutical Studies Unit at the International Institute for Arab Renewal, Member of the Administrative Board of the “Arab Philosophical Union”

Realizable Possibilities in the Arab World.

Dr Anwar Moghith - Egypt

Director of the National Centre for Translation in Egypt

Philosophy and Political Reform.

DAY 3

PANEL 1

Panel Moderator
Dr Anwar Moghith

H.E. Dr Malika Ben Douda - Algeria

Former Minister of Culture, Algeria.

The State and Crisis.

Dr Mehdi Mostakim - Morocco

Moroccan Researcher in the philosophy of religion and belief.

PANEL 2

Panel Moderator
Dr Ahmed Al Barqawi

Dr Al-Zawawi Baghora - ِAlgeria

Researcher and academic, Professor of Contemporary Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Kuwait University. A specialist in the philosophy of Michel Foucault, and a researcher in the philosophy of language and politics

Topic: The Present and Its Philosophical Manifestations.