Date of source: Sunday, October 27, 2002
The author discusses what he calls “the industry of hatred and hostility towards Islam and Muslims.” He sheds light on the writings of Dr. Heinz Dieter Wenter in that respect. He believes that Wenter is one of the few Westerners who writes objectively about Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 7, 2002
Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS) and the Ministry of Awqaf will organize a forum in which a group of distinguished Islamic scholars and Christian clergymen will discuss the challenges of globalization and its passivity over the Arab and Islamic communities.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
The Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services organized a seminar on whether the role of religion changed because of globalization. Islamic thinker Selim Al-Awa assured that religion has a role to play at all times. The Jesuit father Henry Boulad said that modernism is a challenge to...
Date of source: Saturday, February 25, 2006
The author stresses the need to defend freedoms, particularly freedom of expression, but within a framework of respect for others’ faiths and beliefs.
Date of source: Saturday, February 18, 2006
The German ambassador to Cairo, the author, believes that enhancing mutual understanding between the Islamic world and the West should start in schools. He proposes the formation of a Egyptian-German committee for school textbooks, which would be in charge of reviewing both Egyptian and Germans...
Date of source: Saturday, January 7, 2006
A working paper, entitled "Project on U.S. Policy towards the Islamic world," proposed by the Saban center for Middle East studies and Brookings Institution at a U.S.-Muslim forum in Doha, said U.S. objectives behind convening Western-Muslim events include launching reforms and changes, as...
Date of source: Saturday, January 7, 2006
Muhammad Jābir al-Ansārī discusses Arab-West relations and believes that the best way to spread Islam is to practice it well.
Date of source: Monday, January 2, 2006
The author argues that globalization has opened Egypt’s borders to international interference in her domestic affairs.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 29, 2005
An international conference on Islam in Vienna discussed in November a number of issues concerning Islam and its relation to the West. Egyptian Minister of Endowments, Dr. Mahmoud Hamdī Zaqzouq was invited to the conference to lecture on Islam’s position on globalization.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Fundamentalist Muslims make the vanguard of what a French thinker described as a "third-world anti-imperialism movement”.