I am a Lebanese and a Muslim. I have been an active participant in inter-religious dialogue in Lebanon (and in Rome) for the past 6 years with the Institut d’Etudes Islamo-Chrétiennes at the Université Saint Joseph. I am actually preparing a thesis in Science of Religions at the Université Saint Joseph and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris).

The Institute of Missiology missio has accompanied me in my thesis since its beginning in 2002, offering me both a financial aid and a moral support. The institute has not stopped encouraging me since, whether on the level of the thesis or that of inter-religious dialogue. It has offered me until now:

• An unconditional acceptance (except academic requirements of course) and a constant assistance without anything asked in return.
• An open welcome for a person that not only belongs to a different faith ut also for a research that is quite specific to the Muslim mentality, even though it touches the issue inter-religiosity in many points.
• A family-like welcome during the encounters between researchers that automatically feel at home, although they all come from different parts of the world (Africa, Asia,  Near-East, Europe (for the  representatives of the foundation). The Institute also allows us to feel we are a part of it by keeping us up to date about everything that concerns it, allowing us to rejoice together of the progress of the Institute but also to reflect together on the problems it has to deal with.
• A richness during theses encounters where the beneficiaries of the scholarships find out they have many things in common. During last year’s reunion in Paris, it came to my attention that we all had three dimensions or levels of interest where we could assist each other: an academic dimension, a spiritual dimension and most importantly a social dimension, since we all belong to societies that are subject to deep transformations and adaptation problems. The researches done by the others proved to be very enriching to me, helping me think more profoundly and look from a different perspective at the problems of my country in the light of what I had heard about other countries.
• A scholarship that is always on time, as well as a constant encouragement 
• for the  researchers in their long and difficult theses.

The Institute of Missiology missio is a real humane organization where the beneficiary of the scholarship receives a deep respect, for his own person and for his convictions, and where the only aim is to help individuals who are looking in depth for solutions and ideas for improvements in their respective countries, on the level of identity, faith and other social problems stemming from both.

I believe that the Institute of Missiology missio is one of the very rare organizations existing today that give and assist without asking anything in return, and that are driven by an authentic faith, a faith in God and a faith in man.

I am not only grateful to the institute but also thankful to God for having given me the chance to be in contact with this organization and its members. Finally, I am proud, as a believer and as a human being, of an organization that restores and strengthens, in everything in does and in itself, the faith in man in his integrity.