Working to improve mutual understanding between the Middle East and the West

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10 Oct 2025
‘There’s a lot of fear, a lot of anger, a lot of mistrust’ says GINGKO Trustee Julie Siddiqi, 'and there is so much assumption about other people'. Please listen to her and Dr Lindsay Simmonds on Good Morning Britain youtube.com/watch?v=ISR_wXrB…
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16 Jan 2025
gingko_org Application deadline: 6 April 2025 Read more about the GINGKO Grants Programme here: gingko.org.uk/grants/ Learn about previous grant recipients here: gingko.org.uk/grant-recipien… Find directions on how to apply here: gingko.org.uk/how-to-apply/
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The 2025 GINGKO Grants Programme is now open for applications and will remain open until 6 April 2025. You can find directions on how to apply here: gingko.org.uk/how-to-apply/ We look forward to hearing from you!
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25 Dec 2024
GINGKO wishes all those celebrating a happy Hanukkah!
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24 Dec 2024
GINGKO wishes all those celebrating a Merry Christmas!
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23 Dec 2024
Our Grants Programme will open for applications on 1 January. You can read more about the projects we support and the eligibility criteria in our latest newsletter which you can access here: mailchi.mp/gingko.org.uk/dec…
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30 Aug 2024
You can find entries from Dr Joshua Ralston, Series Editor of GINGKO’s Interfaith titles and Professor Jonathan Conlin, 2024 GINGKO Encounter Grant Recipient in our August newsletter which you can access here: mailchi.mp/gingko.org.uk/aug…
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17 Jul 2024
You can read more about our 2024 grant recipients by visiting: gingko.org.uk/grant-recipien…
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We are pleased to share that BIAA Honorary Research Fellow Gizem Tongo has received a grant from @gingkolibrary for her research “The Ottoman Empire at the 1900 Paris Exposition: Orientalism, Representation, and Identity”. Learn more: gingko.org.uk/past-grant-rec…
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17 Jun 2024
GINGKO wishes all those celebrating a happy Eid!
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30 May 2024
In our latest newsletter you can read about an exciting new project supported by GINGKO. The Great Game of Pandemics will re-write the history of global north-south public health cooperation in the long-nineteenth century, when a succession of pandemics hit the world.
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30 May 2024
For more information about the project, as well as another memorable moment from our first decade as we count down to GINGKO's 10th anniversary in September, access our May newsletter here: mailchi.mp/gingko.org.uk/may…

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24 May 2024
Professor Stefan Weber thanking GINGKO in his closing keynote lecture at BRAIS annual conference in Leeds for bringing Bahia Shehab and her extraordinary '1000 times NO' to Berlin!
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16 May 2024
"I am currently an intern at GINGKO and during these past few days I have had the opportunity to attend the 45th International MELCom conference, together with my GINGKO colleagues.
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16 May 2024
My experience working on one of GINGKO's various projects, such as the upcoming 2024 Fellowship Retreat in Cairo, has been very rewarding to my professional development. The team at GINGKO have been extremely supportive and I have had a very positive experience.
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16 May 2024
I think the work GINGKO is doing to facilitate intercultural and inter-religious dialogue is extremely important in such a time of crisis." - Dawid Mliczek, student of International Social Political Studies at UCL
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29 Apr 2024
At the beginning of March, a conference in honour of Mahmoud Saïd (1897-1964) was held in Rome. We sat down with one of the organisers, Roberta Marin, who in 2023 received a GINGKO Encounter Grant. You can read our latest newsletter here: mailchi.mp/gingko.org.uk/apr…
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10 Apr 2024
Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating!
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Our 2024 Grants Programme will close for applications at midnight BST tomorrow, 6th April!
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