Samir Khalil Samir SJ, is a doctor in Oriental Theology and Islamic Studies and is the founder and director of the Centre de documentation et de recherches arabes chrétiennes (CEDRAC) in Beirut. He is also professor of Christian-Islamic Studies at the Pontificio Istituto Orientale in Rome and at other universities. He is the author of more than 60 books, 500 scholarly articles and 900 divulgative articles on the Arab-Christian endowment, Islamic-Christian relations and relations between the Muslim world and the West.
