Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
A conference
recently held in Malaysia attended by fifty intellectuals discussed the
knowledge gap between the West and the
Muslim world and recommends thorough modernization.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
Highlights of the meeting held at El-Sawy Culture Wheel on May 7, 2006, to launch the CAWU website, including a welcome address by Mr. Muhammad al-Sāwī, comments from former ministers Dr. Mamdouh al- Biltājī, Mr. Ahmed Māhir, Dr. Ahmad Juwaylī, head of the Protestant Community Council Dr. Safwat al...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
A
review of
Laurance Pintak’s ’Islam, War and Opinions’, published by AUC press.
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2006
Prince Charles will open
a tent in London next week promoting tolerance and understanding
between religions.
Date of source: Sunday, April 16, 2006
Using the example of the differences between Ghana and South Korea, which in the 1960s had similar incomes per head, but which had completely diverged by the 1990s, Amartya Sen argues that one should avoid attributing the difference simply to culture, أ la Huntington. Sen then challenges...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
The EU is getting ready to launch a
dictionary to
accurately define Muslim cultural terminology, such as the words jihād,
"fundamentalist" and
"Islamist" in a bid to assert that there is no religion that compels its followers to
commit crimes in its
name.
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
Analysis of the Denmark cartoons issue by Dr. Hasan Muhammad Wajīh, expert of linguistics of negotiation and cross-cultural communication at the Azhar University and moderator of the April 15, 2006 discussion at El-Sawy Culture Wheel on ‘Freedom of expression and respect for the other. How to...
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
The speech of Drs. Cornelis Hulsman, director of the Center for Arab-West Understanding, on ’ Freedom of expression and respect for the other. How to respond if one is offended.’
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
The speech of Mr. Tjeerd de Zwaan, Dutch ambassador to Egypt, on ’Freedom of expression and respect for the other. How to respond if one is offended.’
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
The speech of Sir Derek Plumbly, British ambassador to Egypt, on ’Freedom of expression and respect for the other. How to respond if one is offended.’