Welcome to IDSA!. IDSA is a TAMU recognized student organization formed with the goal of promoting dialogue, tolerance, and understanding among students of diverse faith.

We try to provide opportunities to bring people with various belief backgrounds together to engage in dialogue and form new friendships. To this aim, we organize seminars, picnics, book readings, Ramadan dinners, and discussion panels. You will find that IDSA strives to occasionally go beyond the campus and into our Bryan/College Station community, as well. We are delighted that you have taken the time to visit our site. Please feel free to send us your comments or contact us for upcoming events. 

The Inter-faith Dialogue Student Association (IDSA) is a recognized student organization at Texas A&M University that was established in 2001. IDSA’s primary goal is promoting and enhancing dialog, understanding, and tolerance among people of diverse religious faith communities on campus and in the community. With this goal in mind, we have been organizing and taking part in different social activities, including picnics, seminars, special cultural performances and reading groups that bring people of diverse backgrounds together.

Rather than concentrating on differences, we try to emphasize commonalities that bring us together and far outnumber the differences. We truly hope that by doing so, the activities organized by the Inter-faith Dialogue Student Association would contribute to the world peace, tolerance, and understanding. IDSA is formed mainly by a group of international graduate students who are committed to this goal.

Our association is sponsored and supported by a larger organization in Austin, called The Institute for Interfaith Dialog, which is a non-profit organization. Their goal is to seek Dialog, Tolerance, and Peace in the world and they have strong relations with cultural organizations worldwide. As our goals parallel, they support us in terms of initiatives and sponsored events and conferences.