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Date of source: Wednesday, December 15, 2004
In an attempt to correct the image of Islam in the history textbooks
of European schools, the Arab League hosted a conference with the cooperation of International
and European organizations on Muslims’ image in Europe.
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2005
Dr. Shaykh‘Alī Jum‘a, met with the head of the Bundestag Foreign Affaires Committee. He discussed German school textbooks
that affront Islam and engender hatred towards Muslims.
Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2005
Today Turkey is attempting to join the European Union and become the link between the Christian West and the Muslim East, but without wars or armies this time. Will the Europeans give a chance for the two cultures to be joined?
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
Marginalizing religious syllabus
The
Ministry of Education has made art an essential subject in the school syllabi that is calculated in the overall grade, while
the religious education subject is not. When students find out that the religious education subject is not of vital
importance to the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 19, 2005
Azhar education has remained unchanged and undeveloped for a long time in accordance with an axiom that the seventh century in the Arabian Peninsula was the best of times ever. Through the ages, the Azhar has also proved so lenient as to change with the developments.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 23, 2005
The religious discourse needs to be rejuvenated to regain its social and institutional rank and to disprove claims of the West that the prevailing discourse promotes terrorism. The reason that religious discourse is lagging is the lack of Islamic heralds and their concentration on minorities, which...
Date of source: Saturday, February 26, 2005 to Friday, March 4, 2005
The Islamist writer Mr. Fahmī Huwaydī, known as “the enlightened,” is very upset about the Islamic conferences held nowadays, because they are discussing the same points every time regarding Islam’s view of extremism, the truth about the misjudged Jihād, and Islam’s protection of human rights,...
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 2004
Any action from the Egyptian government to spur reform of the Azhar is met with accusations and lawsuits from Azhar scholars, parliament members, and Islamist activists, claiming that these reforms are in response to American pressure. Nevertheless, the debate continues as to whether the Azhar...
Date of source: Sunday, December 30, 2001
The American embassy in one of the Arab countries sent the officials in that Arab country a strange note. The note included many demands concerning the necessity of reconsidering the religious and historical curriculums taught in schools and universities. The article exposes the opinions of some...
Date of source: Saturday, December 29, 2001 to Tuesday, January 1, 2002
The article gives the opinion of Nabil Luka Bebawy concerning the problems facing Copts in Egypt and how to solve them. Bebawy believes that among the problems facing Copts in Egypt are the Hamayouni Law for building churches, the appointment of Copts in senior positions, the fact that the Egyptian...
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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.