Founder/Patron
Paul-Gordon Chandler
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Paul-Gordon
Chandler is an author, interfaith advocate,
social entrepreneur, arts patron and a U.S.
Episcopal priest who has lived and worked in the
Middle East for many years. He grew up in
Senegal, West Africa, and has lived and worked
extensively throughout the Islamic world in
leadership roles within faith-based publishing
and relief & development agencies and churches.
From 2003-2013 he
was the Rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church/Maadi
in Cairo, Egypt, the international
English-speaking Episcopal church in southern
Cairo whose international congregation of over
25 nationalities welcomes people from many
denominations and faith traditions, primarily
from the diplomatic, aid, academic and business
communities. He is also a Canon at All Saints’
Cathedral, Cairo, Egypt.
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Paul-Gordon Chandler with the
Egyptian actor
Omar Sharif at Caravan Art Exhibition
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Paul-Gordon Chandler’s bestselling book, titled
Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road:
Exploring a New Path Between Two Faiths, is
in the field of Christian and Muslim relations
and focuses on what can be learned from the life
and thought well known Syrian Arab novelist
Mazhar Mallouhi, a self-described “Sufi Muslim
follower of Christ”. Paul-Gordon’s first book
was God’s Global Mosaic, What We Can Learn
from Christians Around the World, published
by InterVarsity Press (IVP) in January 2000. His
most recent book, titled Songs In Waiting:
Spiritual Reflections--A Celebration of Middle
Eastern Canticles, was published in July
2009 (Morehouse Publishing) and focuses on
historic Middle Eastern Christianity. He is
currently working on a book that will focus on
the spiritual journey of Kahlil Gibran,
the early 20th century Lebanese writer, artist
and mystic of Christian background (best known
in the West for his book "The Prophet").
As a
patron of the arts, a personal passion of Paul-Gordon’s
is to explore and encourage the role the Arts can plan
in intercultural and interfaith bridge-building…between
both the Middle East and the West, and Muslims and
Christians. In this regard, he started an informal
initiative called Caravan to serve as a catalyst
to build bridges of understanding and respect between
West and East, Christians and Muslims, through the Arts.
He also is the founder of Nisibis Arts LLC that
exists primarily to produce feature films that build
bridges across creeds and cultures.
More
information on Paul-Gordon’s book is available on
www.paulgordonchandler.com. Also visit
www.oncaravan.org
and
www.nisibisarts.com to learn about his interfaith
and the Arts projects.
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