MCE Participate in America International Arabic Book Fair

The Muslim Council of Elders participated in the inaugural edition of the America International Arabic Book Fair in Dearborn, Michigan, from May 1 to May 4, 2025, at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center.

The Council’s participation aims to strengthen engagement with Arab and Muslim communities, as well as with the broader American public, by promoting the values of moderation, tolerance, and coexistence, and fostering constructive dialogue around key issues facing local communities.

Throughout the fair, the Muslim Council of Elders’ pavilion will showcase over 250 diverse intellectual and cultural publications, including several of the latest releases from Al-Hokama Publishing for 2025.

The pavilion will also feature more than 20 works by His Eminence Prof. Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders.

These works aim to highlight the tolerance of Islam and the richness of its intellectual and philosophical heritage.

Titles include “Al-Qawl al-Tayyib,” “From My Old Notebooks,” “A Perspective on East-West Dialogue,” “Tradition and Renewal,” “For the Sake of Peace,” “Insights into the Thought of Imam Al-Ash‘ari,” “Etiquette and Values,” and “Toward a Contemporary Jurisprudential Renewal,” among others.

In the same context, the Council’s pavilion offers several important publications, including “Love in the Holy Quran” by HRH Prince Ghazi Bin Muhammad, a member of the Muslim Council of Elders; “The Pope and the Grand Imam: A Thorny Path – A Testimony to the Birth of the Document on Human Fraternity” by Judge Mohamed Abdelsalam, Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Elders; “Rules of Understanding and Mutual Understanding in Thought and Language” by Dr. Mustafa Benhamza, a member of the Muslim Council of Elders; “Muslims at a Crossroads” by the late Dr. Mahmoud Hamdy Zaqzouq; “Confronting Islamophobia in Europe” by various researchers; and “Islam, the West, and Tolerance: Conceiving Coexistence” by Aaron Tyler, among others.