Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 5, 2023
On Sunday, the shrine of Imām ʿĀlī ibn Abī Ṭālib in Najaf, Iraq announced the participation of more than two million visitors in the commemoration of the birth of Imām ʿĀlī over the weekend.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 7, 2022
In email correspondence. Imām Fāḍl Sulaymān responded to our earlier discussion about the Covenant of ʿUmar, also known as the Capitulations of ʿUmar since I was working on a paper on my correspondence with late Dutch scholar Dr. Hans Jansen (1942-2015). Jansen argued that the code of ‘Umar and...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 2, 2022
In the presence of a group of religious and political leaders, XploreNations Bible College, in partnership with the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (ETSC) , held a symposium on the doctoral thesis “Pope Shinūda III (1923-2012): a historical study”, which was obtained by the researcher in...
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 13, 2022
Bahrain is preparing to welcome Pope Francis I in the coming November in his second visit to the Gulf after signing the Document of Human Fraternity in the USA in 2019, where Pope Francis met the Shaykh al-Azhar and the Council of Muslim Elders. Bahrain is known for its efforts in religious...
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Lara Gibson participated in the CAWU-Heliopolis University summer school between June 27 and July 6, 2018, and interned with our center between July 8 and October 4, 2018. Lara studied Arabic language and culture at Durham University, UK.
Date of source: السبت, آب (اغسطس) 6, 2022
This year we celebrate the bicentenary of Champollion decoding the Rosetta Stone. The key to his success was the Coptic language, the final descendant of the Ancient Egyptian language.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 16, 2021
Last November, an Egyptian court sentenced lawyer and intellectual Aḥmad ʿAbduh Māhir to five years in prison for “contempt of religion” because of his book The Nation’s Misguidance in the Jurisprudence of the Imams, which criticized religious heritage. The court concluded that the book violated...
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 11, 2022
Prof. Dr. Hassan Wagieh [Ḥassan Wajīh] is a Professor Emeritus, Linguistics Department, Faculty of Languages, at the prestigious Azhar University in Egypt. Prof. Wajīh is a long-time friend of Cornelis Hulsman, editor-in-chief of Arab-West Report/Dialogue Across Borders. In April 2022 Hulsman...
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 1, 2022
Fr. Dr. Emilio Platti (1943-2021) sadly suddenly passed away on October 25, 2021. His latest book De Koran herontdekt, Averbode: Uitgeverij Averbode|Erasme N.V, 2020, 96 pages, discusses the context in which the Qur’an came into being or as Muslims would formulate this, “was revealed.” In this...
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 1, 2022
Fr. Emilio Platti (1943-2021) sadly suddenly passed away on October 25, 2021. Dutch Arabist and journalist Eildert Mulder decided to honor his memory through a book review of his latest book De Koran herontdekt, Averbode: Uitgeverij Averbode|Erasme N.V, 2020, 96 pages.[1] Platti’s book describes...