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Date of source: Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Russian intern Yana Kabirova interned with the Center for Arab-West Understanding between December 10 and December 31, 2018. Her chief interest was in extremism in the Muslim world and thus we introduced her to Professor Abdallah Schleifer, a prominent Middle East expert, chief editor of The Muslim...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Prof. Emeritus Abdallah Schleifer (84) and Prof. Emeritus Shems Friedlander (79) both served in the Department of Mass Communication at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and obtained the title 'professor,' not because of their academic work (they had none) but because both were acclaimed...
Date of source: Thursday, November 7, 2019
President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī attended a celebration marking al-mawlid al-Nabawī, the anniversary of Prophet Muḥammad’s birth, organized by the Ministry of Awqāf.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 29, 2019
“The crescent moon with the cross”: this is the motto of Father Bandalīmūn Bushrā, a Roman Orthodox priest in Dumyāṭ. Father Bandalīmūn, in the spirit of interfaith engagement, bought 50 boxes of sweets, commemorating the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad [al-Mawlid al-Nabawīy], to distribute to...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 7, 2019
In the wake of increased incidents related to Islamophobia, the current British government, under the control of the conservative party, is trying to figure out a way to define Islamophobia, after rejecting the APPG's proposed definition, in order to meet the practical and legal challenges facing...
Date of source: Thursday, April 11, 2019
The Islamophobia Monitoring Observatory at Egypt's Dār al-Iftāʾ praised the British government's rejection of all anti-Islam manifestations, after dismissing the Advisor of the Ministry of Housing when he made statements expressing hostility and hatred towards Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 7, 2019
The Muslim community in Germany called on the government on Wednesday to appoint an official commissioner to tackle the growing phenomenon of Islamophobia in the country amid increased threats to bomb mosques in a wave of hostility against Muslims there.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 3, 2019
For the first time in history, a British government minister has performed prayer in al-Aqṣā Mosque on the Temple Mount, Jerusalem.
During a visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, the British Home Secretary Sajid Javid stressed the evident necessity of political progress to establish a...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Not surprisingly, the White House is considering to label the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and it may be followed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other organizations. However, the practical mechanism for this turned out to be more difficult than the...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2019
The group had asked for the meeting with Dr. Mahmoud Khayyal since he is a former professor at the Islamic Azhar University but had left the university as a secularist. The group wanted to understand the factors that had played a role in changing his beliefs. The discussion started with everybody...
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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.