Date of source: Monday, March 20, 2006
At the inauguration ceremony of the launch of the new al-Malāk Mīkhā’īl [Archangel Michael] Cathedral, Pope Sheouda III declared that he will accompany Dr. Sayyid Tantāwī, the grand imām of the Azhar to participate in inter-religious dialogue in Moscow this July.
Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2006
Although many in the East and West have called for dialogue between civilizations and religions, there are still those, such as the Salafis and those who subscribe to the idea of a clash of civilizations, who reject ‘the other’.
Date of source: Saturday, March 18, 2006
Both the grand imām of the Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī and the Coptic Orthodox patriarch, Pope Shenouda III, will hold a second meeting on Islamic-Christian dialogue in which the cartoon crisis will be discussed.
Date of source: Saturday, March 18, 2006
The news carries statements by the imām of the Azhar in which he criticized a newly-proposed bill on personal status matters.
Date of source: Thursday, March 16, 2006
This press review tackles the issue of the crisis of the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by Jyllands-Posten and the support by a Jewish organization in the United States for the campaign to denounce the publication of the cartoons.
Date of source: Friday, December 30, 2005
The grand imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, has recently met with a delegation of U.S. Copts in an attempt to promote constructive Muslim-Christian dialogue.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2005
In an interview with al-Ahālī, Egyptian intellectual Dr. Nasr Hāmid Abu Zayd, who left Egypt after Islamists filed a lawsuit against him accusing him of apostasy and forcibly divorcing him form his wife, speaks out on the current stagnant situation of Egyptian society.
Date of source: Thursday, March 9, 2006
The Dutch Ministry of Education and Culture has announced the launch of a new project to allow Muslim imāms and preachers to graduate from the University of Leiden with governmental finance.
Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2006
The author writes on the bloody conflict in Iraq between Sunnis and Shi’ites and shows the attempts of Islamic religious leaders to build communication between followers of different Islamic madhahib.
Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2006 to Friday, March 17, 2006
The conference held in Denmark over the offensive Danish cartoons called for by the young controversial dā‘iya cAmr Khālid has created different reactions in the West and the Islamic world.