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Date of source: Monday, December 15, 2003
The author describes the curricula of the first three grades of primary education in Egypt. Every textbook has a small number of short Qur´anic chapters or verses. The explanation of these short chapters and verses are very superficial. There are topics that do not relate to the verses or the...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Dr. Pink presented her paper on teaching ethics and values in Egyptian schools at the international conference of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) at Vilnus University, Lithuania, April 9-12, 2003. Egyptian schools strongly promote nationalism and development with an emphasis of...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 16, 2003
There is a great respect in Egyptian schoolbooks for Christian religion, although there is only little information on its faith and life. There is excellent information on the early history of the Copts in Egypt, but almost no information about the Christian minority after the conquest of Egypt....
Date of source: Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Everyone in Israel is used to achieve the Israeli Zionist goals. Research centers are used to influence policy makers and to tarnish the image of Islam. Orientalists play an important role due to their close ties with authorities that solicit their help in preparing reports about Arab-Israeli...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Israeli children´s books describe Arabs as rebellious murderers, predatory animals, worthless and despicable and describe Jews as courageous, strong and superior. They concentrate on the inevitability of war to secure the Israeli existence.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Members of the People’s Assembly have warned that the government is turning a blind eye to the conspiracy being plotted by the American administration to abolish religious education.
Date of source: Sunday, July 3, 2005
President Ahmet Necdet Sezer of Turkey has vetoed an amendment to the country’s new penal code that would reduce penalties for teaching unauthorized courses on the Koran.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Algeria insisted to abandon the teaching of religion in secondary schools as a conclusive solution to religious extremism and terrorism. Although neighboring Tunisia is a model of how to modernize religious education to serve the contemporary needs without having to abandon it, Algeria did not...
Date of source: Monday, December 23, 2002
The author comments on the main points which the US study “The Psychological Aspects of Islamic Terrorism” concludes should be changed in the Egyptian curricula. He refutes the claims of the study concerning education in Egypt promoting terrorism. He thinks that the study is very biased and...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 30, 2002
It is true that there is a general attitude of respect to the Christian faith, but this respect refers only to the Islamic perception of how Christianity should be, not the way it is. The fact that a new chapter about the Coptic era has recently been introduced in the Social Studies and History...
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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.