Soft Launch of Prof Ori Soltes' Book - "Between Thought & Action"

Bluestar Institute and Dialogue Institute of Australia will be hosting Prof Ori Soltes in early June to promote his book Between Thought and Action: An Intellectual Biography of Fethullah Gülen including a session in Canberra on the evening of Wednesday, the 7th of June 2023.

I was hoping you’d be kind enough to participate, join the roundtable discussions and do a ‘soft launch’ of the book ?

When he last visited our shores in 2017 he interviewed a few local people whose responses have made it to the book. He has provided some insights which are specific about the riches of Australian & New Zealand’s successful social policies which promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the multicultural landscape. There is a short video featuring Prof Soltes explaining why he wrote the book.

Background on Book

The book has two goals. One is to explore the life and the thought of Fethullah Gulen and the important educational and peace-inducing activities in which he and those inspired by him have been engaged for several decades. The outcome of those efforts—of creating schools and providing diverse social and cultural services that bring people together people from diverse backgrounds—has been to provide the face of civic and civil Islam as an antidote to the uglier side of political Islam.

The second goal has been to make clear how the accusations against Mr. Gulen by the minions of Turkey`s President could hardly be more false: that what Gulen and the Hizmet (Service) Movement that he has inspired are ultimately about is improving the world and saving it from its uglier inclinations. A brief discussion of his life and thought has been supplemented by the voices of more than 70 interviews conducted over several years, with individuals intimate and more distant but all inspired to be part of the process of serving humanity.

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