Anqari, Minister of Higher Education, has said that the agreement entered into with the Sorbonne University in Paris for a Dialogue of Civilizations Chair further supports the initiative of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to promote dialogue between the followers of different religions and cultures. “It is the fruit of the second Saudi-French Dialogue Symposium which was held in April last year,” Al-Anqari said. The minister inaugurated in Riyadh Saturday a number of academic chairs across the Kingdom in cooperation with the Paris Sorbonne, among them the Dialogue of Civilizations Chair at the Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University, the Ethics and Financing Rules Chair at King Abdulaziz University, and the Hail University Chair. Jean-Claude Colliard, President of the Sorbonne, said his university had “genuine intentions to work with Saudi universities”. “We will benefit from what we have seen at King Saud University in setting up a new university in the north of France,” he said. “We have signed today four agreements for partnership contracts in several fields and for research chairs, and I will make these partnerships a central focal point for work at the Sorbonne.”
