CALEM    Shelter

This year again, we organized our GAP (Grand Annual Party), on Friday September 30, 2022.

We have been honored to be able to elevate some remarkable associations from within our local network, working in an inclusive and intersectional way for the well-being of migrants in Marseille:

An evening dedicated to raising funds for the
associations, and in memory of the late
young Syrian poet

Wissam Mohamed SANKARI

With the outstanding participation of:

Alieu Jalloh (Sierra Leone - Marseille)

President founder - AUP

Users of the PADA - self sustained CADA

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Alieu Jalloh, since his arrival in France a few years ago, has been one of the most active members of the LGBT+ migrant community.

He founded the AUP association of the PADA (first institutional reception center for migrants), as well as a self-managed CADA (reception center for asylum seekers), where around forty people are accommodated ( vulnerable LGBT+, families with children, etc.).

Sustain the LGBT+ migrants here

CALEM    Institute

NEW RESOURCES

Elaborated by the CALEM Institute

Summer 2022

Our video with #Electra-Pain, a drag queen committed to our side against all forms of discrimination, including racism and Islamophobia, during the opening of the inclusive prayer room in Frankfurt (Germany) by our brothers and sisters from the #LIB association:

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Report from our long-time partner, the German 
broadcaster D.W., about the activities at our 
#CALEM institute (Marseille):

This year again
(September 2022 to May 2023)
The CALEM Institute provides its training, on the basis of renowned scientific research, in particular for progressive imam-es from France, 
Europe and beyond:

Register for our inclusive weekend at the end of December in a partner monastery

Our latest publications on sensitive topics, approached from an intersectional perspective:

Our other publications online here

Tribune against the complicity, albeit temporary, of the social network TWITTER, with the so-called Turkish "Islamists":

Following the announcement of the participation of a representative of the LGBT+ Muslim community, doctor and imam Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed[1], at Brand Week in Istanbul[2], we witnessed last week an outpouring of hatred and anti-LGBT+ and queer death threats, from patriarchal, fascistic ideology’s supporters, claiming to be Islamists.

As a result of this pressure from this minority described as "Islamist," Brand Week organizers cancelled (and then postponed) Zahed's talk; and the social network Twitter suspended his account "permanently," with no compelling justification (today, the Twitter account of L. Zahed has been put back online). Threats and hate messages, posted on the same social network, Twitter, are still very visible to everyone’s eyes[3].

We, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, citizens committed to progressive and inclusive philosophies of life, would argue today that the cancellation of events, or the censorship of social media accounts belonging to activists and intellectuals fighting for human rights, is not conducive to the emergence of truly egalitarian societies in the future.

CALEM    Cabinet

We have been honored again this year, most often online, to facilitate the blessing of couples, in France and elsewhere. Learn more here

This year again, we organized an inclusive weekend in Marseille (end of August), in order to allow various international partners to meet the associations of our local network :

LIB - our main partner in Germany