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Date of source: Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Junghoon Lee (Republic of Korea) undergraduate in Arabic and Spanish, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, interning between February 2019 and June 2019.
I worked as a research intern for the Center for Arab West Understanding (CAWU) from February to June 2019. I chose to come to Egypt as my...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 30, 2019
The German Agency for Domestic Security recently published a report about Muslim antisemitism in Europe, and especially in Germany where it seems to represent a big issue.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 30, 2019
After the recent increase attacks on places of worship, the UN Secretary General António Guterres stressed the necessity for the world community to increase its efforts to eliminate Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, persecution of Christians and all forms of racism, xenophobia, discrimination and...
Date of source: Monday, September 17, 2018
This interview report reflects a brief discussion on August 5, 2018, between Libyan representatives (Mr. Abdulmajid Zuwama Alothmani [ʿAbd al-Majīd Zūwāmah alʿUthmānī], former Minister of Agriculture and current PDG of Libyan Petrol and Gas), Mr Ahmed Shawki Mansour [Aḥmad Shawqī Manṣūr], the GM...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Every year on January 11 or 12, Dayr Abu Hinnis, a small, isolated Christian village 186 miles south of Cairo, commemorates the Holy Family's flight into Egypt. The celebrations at Dayr Abu Hinnis begin in the early morning hours as Coptic pilgrims ferry across the Nile, singing and clapping...
Date of source: Monday, March 25, 2019
On March 12, I finally got to meet Leslie Maras, the Belgian prisoner I had been reading and writing about for a while as part of my internship at the Centre for Arab-West Understanding. Leslie Maras was sentenced to life for smuggling drugs into Egypt. His parents are trying to transfer him to a...
Date of source: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Since the report of Yūsuf R. Kāmil about the transfer of prisoner treaties in Arab-West Report Leslie’s mother, Brigitte Maras, has been contacting different authorities in Belgium. They confirm there is no prisoner exchange treaty between Belgium and Egypt and therefore they can do nothing to get...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Cairo is a large metropolis of eight million people, so it is not only the largest city in Egypt, but also the largest city in Africa and the Arab world. "Greater Cairo" encompasses the city of Cairo and adjacent Giza. The river Nile, one of the largest in the world, lies between the two cities. To...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2018
The Center for Arab-West Understanding is an Egyptian NGO welcoming internships in Cairo for the sake of inter-religious dialogue and mutual understanding between Christians and Muslims in the Arab world, offering a program for young people of all nationalities and faiths. Italian journalist Giulia...
Date of source: Sunday, December 30, 2018
Editor AWR: Seok-jo was our first South Korean intern. His English written language skills were not the best, but we always try to find tasks for interns that both benefit the intern concerned as well as contribute to our database. We asked Seok-jo to help investigate the tensions around the...
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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.