This project was a collaboration between Södertörn University in Sweden and Centre for Women’s studies at University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan. Cooperation between the institutions was first developed in 2011, and the participating subjects were Gender Studies and Studies of Religion from Sweden and Women's Studies from Jordan. The project included both inbound and outbound staff mobility for teaching and was ongoing for two years funded by Erasmus+ ICM. The overall objective of the project was to broaden the contact areas and consolidate inter-cultural collaborations focusing on gender issues in relation to a Christian/European context and a Muslim/Middle Eastern context. Teaching activities included lectures for master’s students, participation in open seminars and presentations during the one-day conference “Feminist Movement: History and Discourse” in Amman (23/10/2016). While the main target group was students and co-workers, representatives from the embassy and civil society also participated. In total, seven teachers participated in the mobilities, four of them from University of Jordan and three of them from Södertörn University. The results of the cooperation was made visible both to other researchers at the two universities, the general student population and to the general public and policymakers, via news articles and government representatives such as the Swedish ambassador in Jordan. Visiting teachers from both countries has vitalized both teaching and theorizing in relevant areas such as gender and/in globalisation, cultural/religious frameworks as well as feminist epistemology and class room pedagogy across cultural and religious borders. The combination of Gender Studies and Studies of Religions (that is a non-confessional study of several religions) fitted well into the current curriculum in Jordan, but was also thought-provoking and a bit unusual for the Jordanian students. Furthermore, since knowledge about gender issues in the Arab world are scarce in Swedish higher education, the lectures provided by incoming teachers from University of Jordan became very important for discussions and reflections about gender, culture and power structures in secular and non-secular contexts. A long-term goal of the cooperation is to also include student mobility in the exchange programme. A student exchange between Sweden and Jordan would be of great potential, not the least since many Swedish students in fact are Arabic speaking and the whole of the Middle East and the Arab world is a region with an increasing presence, not only in international politics but also in Swedish society.