http://www.english.hadhramaut.info German-Yemeni Dialogue Conference to be held Tuesday [The Source: www.sabanews.net - 11/1/2009] The German-Yemeni Dialogue Conference „Re-approaching Reality – The Perception of the Other in the Relations  between the Western and the Islamic Worlds“ will be held in Sana'a next Tuesday. In a press release, the German embassy in Sana'a said on Sunday that the conference will be opened by German Ambassador Michael Klor-Berchtold, Rector of Sana'a University, Prof. Dr. Khaled Tamim, and Resident Director of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Felix Eikenberg. "The conference will address the perception of cultural, religious and ethnic differences as a central component in every society. This perception is not only important for the construction of the images we have of other cultures and nations but also for defining our own identities. When it comes to the perception of each other in the relations of „the West“ and „the Islamic World“, crude prejudices and oversimplifications often prevail", the statement reported. "The conference will discuss this sensitive yet important issue on the basis of the findings of a preceding Winter School with Yemeni and German scholars and students that took place at Sana'a University. The conference aims at dismantling those prevailing prejudices and misunderstandings". Distinguished participants of the conference are HE Dr. Abdulkarim al-Eryani, Presidential Advisor and former Prime Minister of the Republic of Yemen, and HE Walter Kolbow, Deputy Chairman of the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in the Federal German Parliament. Further participants include internationally acknowledged German and Yemeni scholars and Yemeni and German students. Moreover, the conference marks the beginning of the festivities celebrating the 40th anniversary of the resumption of German-Yemeni diplomatic relations.