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8 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, By the time you read this, we will have enjoyed theJubilee weekend and I hope you all have had awonderful time with family, neighbours andfriends. Seeing how during her long rule, her Majesty’sstoic determination and composure

12 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. I have been an intern at the Woolf Institute now fornearly a month, having returned following last year’ssummer school programme. I am an undergraduateat Brigham Young University in Salt Lake Citystudying Philosophy and

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Spring, with its longer daylight hours, new buds on thetrees, and – with a little bit of luck – increasingly sunnyweather, is an annual reminder of new beginnings.Having weathered the hardest season of the year, wecan look to

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Those who have spent nearly a full month fasting dailyfrom sunrise to sunset welcome the first day of Eid al-Fitr with open arms. Toward the end of Ramadan, youare physically exhausted but spiritually satiated. I cancertainly

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Ramadan has always embodied for me a delightfullydelicate paradox: it is at once a month ofrenunciation and fulfilment, of stillness and activity,of turning inwards in contemplation and reachingoutwards in charity. Ramadan

8 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Last month, I had the opportunity to return to Belfastfor the first time in nearly 10 years. Having done myMA there, it is a city I once knew well; our WoolfInstitute Forgiveness and Future-building projectoffered an opportunity

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Good. Friday Agreement. Signed on the 10th April 1998during Holy Week it ended, for the most part, theviolence of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. If youlook back 30 years ago, there

2 Nov 2022: Best wishes,. David PerryWoolf Media Consultant & Producer. The Woolf Institute Annual Publication 2022/23 is now available to download.This publication is full of information about current research, teaching, publiceducation and

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Too often interfaith dialogue focuses on our sharedground and skirts away from the contentiousconversations about what divides us. Althoughrecognising our common beliefs and sharedstandards is always a good thing, if we don’t

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. September always feels like a new start. The newacademic year for schools and universities bringsexcitement, potential, and a little nervousness; with afour-year-old starting school for the first time, I knowthat this is true