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Date of source: Saturday, May 21, 2005
Karen Armstrong, a British female writer, was one of the rare Western writers who did justice to Islam. She was a nun, but later on, she found that monastic life did not suit her. She focused on historical and religious studies and concluded that the three divine religions share the same essential...
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2005
Bernard Lewis delivered a speech at Georgetown University that was published later in ‘Foreign Affairs.’ Lewis spoke about Islamic political thought and presented a background about the conceptualization of freedom and justice in the Islamic jurisprudence. He cites the roots of tyranny in the...
Date of source: Sunday, May 22, 2005
The UN Committee Against Torture attacked Sweden to hand over terrorists to Egypt in December 2001. It was claimed that terrorist Ahmad Husayn cUjayza had been tortured after he returned to Egypt. The Committee mentioned that Swedish authorities should have known that Egypt continuously resorts to...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 24, 2005
The “Save Egypt Front”[Jabhat Inqādh Misr] conducted its first press conference in London. Kamāl al-Hilbāwī, the consultant of the Front said that it is not a political party or movement like the Muslim Brotherhood. But he asserted that the movement has the capacity to mobilize thousands of people...
Date of source: Saturday, September 21, 2002
[The article of Muhammad Shebl in October, September 15, resulted in an article in the Dutch Daily Trouw] While Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Dutch political scientist of Somali origin, received death threats because of her untraditional convictions about Islam, Egyptians discuss freedom of religion. This is...
Date of source: Saturday, November 16, 2002
A Muslim woman living in America said that she lived hard times in Ramadan this year. Her mother’s name will go to the Department of Justice because she donates food to a family in Bosnia. She cannot attend any mosque meetings fearing that her car’s license plate number might be recorded in the...
Date of source: Saturday, April 20, 2002
The Dutch Intelligence Service warned the Dutch government for the terrorist activities of some Islamic institutions, recommended to stop financing them and to place them under surveillance. One of the institutions mentioned in the report was the Islamic Endowments Institution. They said that their...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2002
The Turkish government declared the banning of veiled women from entering a university or driving cars. This declaration provoked the feelings of many Muslims especially since many of them believe that Islam is the hijab and niqab. The author does not agree that Islam is simply a hijab and niqap....
Date of source: Monday, September 29, 2003
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, head of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, denied what was reported about him asking the US administration to pressure the Egyptian government to enforce democracy. "I did not ask anyone to do this. I am the one who pressures and asks for applying democracy because...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim said that the war on Iraq has been a warning sign for undemocratic regimes in the world and that it may encourage political reform in the Middle East region.
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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.