Global and regional political, economic and social development, in recent years, has troubled the relationship between Western, European and Islamic societies strongly and manifold. Throughout the world, people are witnessing unsettling changes. Non-Muslims and Muslims alike became victims of terror and violence by people pretending to act “in the name of Islam”. Misunderstanding and prejudice...Read More

In September 2007, the British daily The Independent described Switzerland as «Europe’s new heart of darkness», depicting it as a fore-runner within a European-wide trend towards problematising the «other» – mostly Muslims – and towards radicalising the (proposed) measures of how to deal with the «other». One of the main factors contributing to this image...Read More

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has experienced rapid growth in its healthcare system, leading to an influx of many foreign professional nurses in the healthcare workforce. This increasing trend of foreign professional nurses into the KSA healthcare system has serious implications such as cultural, language and communication barriers that in turn have the potential...Read More

Central within the current debate on the impact of the information and communication technologies are the theories of the “global culture” and “cultural clashes”, or global village and clash of civilizations. According to the first theory (ICTs) will generate global culture or American culture and homogenous religious patterns; the cultural dimension of globalization. On the...Read More