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Date of source: Sunday, October 14, 2012
The French press has been speaking recently about a documentary by an Egyptian-descent French director about the apparition of the Virgin Mary.
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2012
A reputable newspaper splashed a headline that read “makwagī burns shirt, sparks fitnah that left 12 injured”.
Any reader of this news story that took place in the village of Dahshūr, Giza, would understand that the Christian makwagī (man ironing clothes in a shop for a living in Egypt) was the one...
Date of source: Thursday, May 8, 2008
Muhammad Salmāwī reports on the book fair in Geneva where Egypt was the guest of honor.
Date of source: Friday, October 19, 2007
Clerics in Egypt and in Arab and Islamic countries spare no efforts to deliver innovative Fatwás that aim at modernizing religious thought and proving that Islam is the religion of progress and is in line with modernity.
Date of source: Thursday, December 28, 2006
Muhammad Salmāwī cites his conversation with Najīb Mahfūz regarding the publication of his novel ’ Awlād Hāratinā.’
Date of source: Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Muhammad Salmāwī writes about the
widely controversial novel ‘Terrorist.’ In
this novel the author digs deep into the psyche of an American Muslim of
Egyptian origins and his
transformation into a potential terrorist.
Date of source: Monday, November 5, 2001
The West shares responsibility for reviving the religious trend in the Arabic region in the 1990s and for
the religious groups’ resorting to violence as a means of expressing themselves. What is meant is not the indirect
responsibility of the American policy, which is prejudiced towards Israel...
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001
The author refuted what V.S. Naipaul said about Islam being a disaster for Asia as it wiped out all the public cultures of the countries it conquered. He gave Egypt and Spain as examples of the fact that Islam did not wipe out the cultures of the countries it conquered but interacted with them. He...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 19, 2001
The author is of the opinion that the reasons for the assaults on Muslims and Arabs after the attacks in the USA are to be found in the inability of Americans, whose views seem to be deeply effected by the American media, which tends to superficialize matters and look for excitement, to face the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 1, 2006
The author notes that the West saw both the power and the dark side of the Muslim reactions to the Danish cartoons. He pleas that Muslims check their reactions next time, lest their negative image in Westerners’ eyes become even more solidified.
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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.