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Date of source: Thursday, March 14, 2013
Douglas May is an American Catholic priest who works with CIDT. Between 1984 and 2007, Doug worked for 10 years as a member of the formation-education team at St. Leo the Great Coptic Catholic Seminary located in the Maadi suburb of Cairo, Egypt. Doug reflects on his 23-year friendship with the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 7, 2013
“Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions”, Vatican II, Nostra Aetate, 28 October, 1965, Article 3.
“The Church has also a high regard for the Muslims. They worship God, who is one, living and subsistent, merciful and almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has...
Date of source: Monday, October 8, 2012
Doug May, an American who works with CIDT as financial manager, is a Catholic priest who provides pastoral services to foreign English-speaking and Egyptian Arabic-speaking communities. Doug is often asked his opinions about freedom and democracy by both communities. Having lived and worked in...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Douglas May of AWR commends the New York Times article cited below, calls on the U.S. to receive the Egyptian president respectfully and listen to him with an open mind. While President Muhammad Mursī makes no apologies for his Muslim Brotherhood background, May is hopeful that his determination...
Date of source: Thursday, September 13, 2012
Father Douglas May continues to be the only U.S.-born Catholic priest in Egypt. He has lived in the Middle East and Egypt for 20 years since 1977. Doug attended the Pontifical Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies in Rome in the early 1980s and the Comboni Institute in Cairo in the early 1990s...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 28, 2012
A just and lasting solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict has eluded the world for more than a half century. United Nations resolutions have either been vetoed or passed without implementation. Three generations of Israelis and Palestinians now generally view each other only as “enemy”. The...
Date of source: Monday, August 27, 2012
Imbābah is a poor, crowded neighborhood on the west side of the Nile from Cairo in the Giza Governorate. While the Cairo Metro now links this area, it lacks proper streets, water and sewer services in much of the area. Most of those living in Imbābah are originally from Upper Egypt although some...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The verdict passed by al-Minya Criminal Court on May 21 convicting 12 Copts and sentencing them to life imprisonment while acquitting eight accused Muslims in the same case, known as the Abū Qurqās sedition case, has caused widespread anger among the Copts. Arab-West Report asked intern Cassie...
Date of source: Thursday, June 21, 2012
Many Egyptians believe that the US supports Mursī and the Muslim Brotherhood in being the next president and forming the next government of Egypt.
As a US-born American, I have always loved my country, but I have seldom been a fan of US-government foreign policy in the Middle East whether...
Date of source: Friday, June 22, 2012
Arab-West Report advocates accurate reporting about Islam and the different streams that exist among Muslims, including Salafīs who indeed often have been misrepresented in various media. On the other hand Arab-West Report expects that Muslim authors and leaders present an accurate picture of...
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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.