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Date of source: Saturday, December 1, 2007
Majdī Khalīl launched his new Middle East Freedoms Forum. The author discusses the opening conference without hiding her criticism and discontentment.
Date of source: Sunday, December 2, 2007
The author quotes a statement of a human rights group, in which it defends the Coptic businessman Najīb Sawirus’s right to express his opinion. A few weeks ago, Sawirus was reported as attacking the Ḥijāb along with other features of religious extremism.
Date of source: Sunday, December 2, 2007
The author reports on news about the arrest of a radical group, which police says it linked al-Qā‘idah combining a ‘sleeping cell’ in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 4, 2007
The article is based on an interview with the Islamic preacher Dr. Ṣafwat Ḥijāzī on the role played by religious TV satellite channels on spreading a so-called status of fatwá chaos.
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2007
The author believes that the Muftī of state, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah, has been leading a surge of renewal of the Islamic religious discourse on the basis of contemporary intellectual and jurisprudential needs, unlike other Islamic clerics who show more concern with trivial issues rather than the bigger...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 21, 2007
The following text presents a number of the most popular Islamic Dā‘iyahs in the modern time.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 7, 2007
King ‘Abd Allāh of Saudi Arabia has met Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican the first audience by the head of the Roman Catholic Church with a Saudi monarch. Despite widespread support for the king’s initiative, hard-liners considered it treason to Islam, and an attempt to normalize relations with the...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 7, 2007
al-Bannā criticizes Retrospectivism
and Salafism as flaws in the Islamic Da‘wá that hinder the progress of Muslims and
Islam. He also doubts the reliability of many of the Ḥadīths.
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2007
The author narrates a background history to the deteriorating situation of Christians in the East. He identifies the reasons behind this deterioration and discusses the origins of religious fundamentalism and the autocratic regimes in the Arab world.
Date of source: Sunday, October 21, 2007
The article discusses a letter sent by over 130 Muslim scholars to Christian leaders around the world, stressing the need for global peace.
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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.