Dinner tonight to illustrate diversity

The first event of the Dialog Association at the University of Cincinnati will be held this evening at Mick & Mack's Contemporary Café in Tangeman University Center. A diverse group of speakers will appear to help foster understanding between people with different religious beliefs and backgrounds.

Guests from different religious backgrounds will be seated together with the goal of promoting conversation.

"We are going to build bridges between hearts and communities," Dialog Association member Melik Masarifoglu tells the News Record.

The dinner will feature special guest speaker Zeki Saritoprak of John Carroll University in Cleveland, who holds a doctorate in Islamic Theology and is one of many religious scholars to meet Pope Benedict XVI during the pope's April visit to the United States.

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