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Date of source: Tuesday, December 23, 2003
The article is in response to Dr. Muhammed Selim al-‘Awa´s article in al-Usbua on Islamic religious education, AWR, 2003, week 50, art. 24. Dr. Reiss gives an overview of Muslim religious education at Egyptian primary schools and disagrees with some of the conclusions of Dr. Muhammad Selim el...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 23, 2003
The article is an interview with Nabil Abdel Fattah, assistant manager of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, on the issue of renewing the religious discourse. He comments on the attempts of some intellectuals to associate the concept of renewing the religious discourse with the...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 16, 2003
The article tries to answer the question whether the U.S. will really succeed in Americanizing Islamic culture. It examines the attitude of the U.S. toward the Arab and Islamic world after the September 11 attacks. A few months following September 11, the American Administration flagrantly demanded...
Date of source: Saturday, December 13, 2003
The author criticizes the recent decision taken by foreign outside ??/ authorities to abolish cancel places of worship in schools , religious buildings such as, mosques and places for prayers in schools He wonders why a school, as a place for education and naturally a place for music, art, and...
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: Monday, December 1, 2003
The author complains that during the month of Ramadan a couple of issues were met with complete silence from Egyptian media. Some of these issues that he comments on in his article are: the decision of the American Congress to allocate $2 million cut from American aid to Egypt to the Ibn Khaldoun...
Date of source: Sunday, November 23, 2003
The author comments on the issue of the American intervention in changing the educational curricula, especially religious, in Arab countries. The US claims that such curricula is responsible for the hatred Muslims have for the US and that is why it is planning to change it. The plan is now...
Date of source: Saturday, November 8, 2003
In comparing the conditions of Arab and Islamic societies today to their conditions centuries ago, it will be clear that the predominance of the “violent mind” has mounted. To be precise, however, it is the “culture of the violent mind” and not the “violent mind” itself that spread among large...
Date of source: Friday, November 7, 2003
The author discusses many forms of religious discourse, stressing that its renewal is a must. He comments on the intervention of the US in this issue, saying that its proposals in that respect always suit its interests.
Date of source: Sunday, November 2, 2003
The US Administration accused religious schools in many Arab and Islamic countries of promoting terrorist ideas and graduating generations of terrorists. Acquainted sources in Washington said that the Secretary of Defense and his deputy have lately raised a very sensitive issue, which is whether...
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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.