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ʿAmru al-Miṣrī is an Egyptian journalist who works for the Middle East News Agency (MENA), the official Egyptian news agency. He was the agency’s correspondent in Ankara between 2013 and 2016. He arrived in Cairo a week before this interview (17.07.2016) that was conducted two days...
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 25, 2010
Hostilities towards Turkey emerged as Armenians remember the anniversary of the Ottoman Empire massacre.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 16, 2008
A satirical German magazine has launched a competition entitled ’Who resembles Muhammad?’ which observers have commented could create reverberations for Muslims around the world.
Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 15, 2008
The various members of Turkey’s political scene are still fiercely debating the issue of the ban on headscarves in public institutions. Recently the high court ruled that the constitutional amendment that was passed in February allowing women to wear the headscarves in universities is null. The...
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 3, 2007
The agenda of the new Turkish President Abdullah Gül aims at establishing equilibrium between the secular and Islamic fundamentalisms in Turkey, thereby preparing the country to join the European Union.
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 12, 2007
The article discusses the political failure of the banned Muslim Brotherhood that tends to raise less important issues merely to gain media fame rather than any real political presence in society.
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 19, 2007
The nomination of Abdullah Gul, the Turkish foreign minister, for the presidency of the Turkish Republic, has pushed secular Turks to discussing succession and the meaning of secularism. The author states that the definition for an Islamic Caliphate is that they are the general presidency for...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 13, 2007
The author discusses the situation of Muslims in Turkey, and the increasing levels of restrictions being imposed upon them.
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 26, 2007
Muslim women in Europe are under increasing pressure to abandon the niqāb.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 23, 2006
On Tuesday, Pope Benedict will start a four-day visit to Turkey amidst growing protests in Istanbul and Ankara. Tens of thousands took to the streets and chanted anti-pope slogans, expressing their fury at the pope’s remarks on Islām which he made two months ago in a lecture at the University of...
Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.