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Date of source: Friday, December 16, 2005
The author argues that Islam knows no violence, terrorism or compulsion and that Egypt’s Christians welcomed the Islamic conquests since they liberated their churches from the Byzantines and returned them to the Christians.
Date of source: Friday, November 4, 2005
Mixing Islamic jihād with terrorism and fighting goes back centuries before the September 11 attacks.
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Henry Laurens is on his way to take the place of Jack Perck [name is transliterated from Arabic original, we do not know whether the spelling of his name is correct], and Louis Masignon in the specialization and analysis of Arab issues. This young researcher, who is not yet fifty, was recently...
Date of source: Saturday, June 4, 2005
Goethe was the first to declare that the call for separating the Islamic Orient from the Christian West is false. He alse said that a wise man takes from both sides and considers matters wisely and open-mindedly. Goethe was also leading those who frankly admitted the impact of Arab and Islamic...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 2, 2004
Maxime Rodinson died last week at the age of 89. Unfortunately, no one has written enough about this author who produced dozens of books objectively tackling the Arab-Israeli conflict. Although he was himself a Jew, this led Israel to accuse him of being anti-Semitic.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 8, 2004
Maxime Rodinson died last week at the age of 89. Perhaps this is the opportunity to defend the French Orientalist from Arab accusations and the subsequent marginalization of his role and works. While Cairo protested his book about the Prophet Muhammad thirty years ago, the Beirut publishing house...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
The latest transformations in Orientalism have given us Arabs the chance to benefit. Arabs should enhance these positive transformations and attempt at producing knowledge that goes beyond immediate worldly interests. Knowledge should be produced that aims at creating deeper understanding between...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
Until the turn of the 20th century, the Balkan nations were under the Ottoman Empire, becoming the subject of study by American and European Orientalists as part of the Near East. With the changes that swept the Balkan area, Orientalism in the Balkans transformed from a dichotomy between self/other...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
The new generation of Orientalists is less knowledgeable about the culture of the East than its predecessors. The previous generation of Orientalists was aware of the Arab-Islamic texts. But the Orientalist school is no longer able to preserve its scientific traditions today because of a number of...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
After September 11, Bush’s administration included a number of Orientalists in top positions, one of whom is Bernard Lewis. Some Western researchers, especially Americans, have abandoned the Imperial spirit, while others have rejected assertions to America and Europe’s hegemony over the Islamic...
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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.