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Date of source: Tuesday, March 4, 2003
The ongoing polarization between the Western and Arab worlds is quickly spiraling down to a confrontation which will cause great damage to both the Western and Arab worlds. That polarization can still be avoided but only if people are willing to understand the causes of this polarization and are...
Date of source: Sunday, March 14, 2004
We repeat everyday that Islam does not believe in the idea of dispute or clash with whoever differs in faith, thought or principles. But we are saying this inside the borders of the world and in the Arabic language, so the West does not hear us. It’s the time for the intellectuals and thinkers of...
Date of source: Friday, March 19, 2004
In an interview with his Eminence Dr. Muhammad Al-Mokhtar Muhammad Al-Mahdy, Director General of Shariya [Shari’a-based] NGOs, and professor in Al-Azhar University, talked about many issues of concern to Muslims. Among these issue are the crisis of the Islamic world, the concept of jihad , the...
Date of source: Sunday, April 4, 2004
The American administration attributes terrorism to culture and faith—especially Islamic faith. The lack of terrorist events during a long period of time in the Islamic culture’s history is evidence that the Islamic culture is not a reason for the terrorism that is currently taking place. So if...
Date of source: Saturday, April 10, 2004
Arab and foreign commentators these days have been concerned with a lecture given by Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. In his lecture, Carey discussed what he considered to be internal problems of Islam. The new atmosphere in the United States and Europe against Islam and Muslims [and...
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
The Egyptian Higher Institute for Culture sponsored the Conference on Translating and Connecting Cultures, aiming to connect civilizations and eliminate misunderstandings between different cultures. As a result of the political conditions surrounding the Arab region, participants spent the four...
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
Many Muslim thinkers and scholars have occupied themselves with the issue of democracy in Western civilization and its comparison with the Islamic system of shura [consultation], especially after the proposed U.S. reform project known as the Greater Middle East was introduced. This study examines...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Novelist Hassan Dawoud, whose novels have been translated thus far into four languages, said that Western publishing houses search for their interests and profits first. Translating from Arabic is very expensive because experts in the language are rare, causing publishing houses to be very careful...
Date of source: Friday, June 25, 2004
The Tunisian writer Al-Taher Labib is the manager of the Arab Institution for Translation that has been working actively in Beirut since three years. “It is not an exaggeration if I said that only ten percent of the books translated from Arabic can be accredited. Most of the translations cannot be...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
Asharq Al-Awsat met with a group of Western Arabists on the sidelines of the Translation Conference held lately at the Supreme Council of Culture in Egypt. They spoke about their experiences in translating literal works from Arabic into European languages and the reasons that let them choose...
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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.