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ʿAbd al-Raʾūf al-Rawābdah (born 1939) is a Jordanian politician and became prime minister of Jordan in 1999. In the 1967 Six-Day War (otherwise known as the Arab-Israeli War), Israel overpowered Egypt, Jordan and Syria. It then occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem,...
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Fahd al-Fānik is a well-known Jordanian economist and financial consultant. He discusses the issue of the Jordanian economy, the situation of the poor and suggests a number of ways of tackling these issues.
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The Jordanian budget used to depend on foreign aid, dating to when the...
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Aḥmad ʿAṣmat ʿAbd al-Majīd (1.3.1924 – 21.12.2013) was at the time of the interview an Egyptian diplomat and the secretary-general of the Arab League, which consists of 22 members. The Arab League was established in 1945, with the aim of unifying the Arab World and considering the...
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Opposition leader Mahmūd Jibrīl al-Warfalī discusses his viewpoints on the Libyan regime under Muʿammar al-Qadhāfī. The Lockerbie bombing in 1988 is brought up for discussion. Just days before the sabotage of the aircraft, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) had warned...
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2014
Maariv newspaper has reported on a Jewish girl that converted to Islam within the Green Line (Haytham Sulimān, al-Wafd, Jan. 12, p. 16).
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2007
Dr. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Masīrī was born in 1938 in Damanhūr governorate, Egypt. In 1975 he took up a position as Advisor of Cultural Affairs to the Permanent Delegation of the Arab League to the United Nations in New York, which he held until 1979. However, he was not able to resume his earlier...
Date of source: Friday, January 3, 2014
This article reflects on a hatred Israeli compaign against the Egyptians triggered by a Jewish Rabbi.
Date of source: Monday, August 26, 2013
AWR interns, Ahmed Deiab and Daniela De Maria, sat with film director, Amir Ramses, at his home in Dokki on August 14 to discuss his documentary film, "Jews of Egypt". Deiab and De Maria noted that he was very kind and welcoming despite having a flight to France the following morning. Ramses...
Date of source: Monday, October 10, 2011
Muftī of the Republic A’lī Jum’ah condemned attacking Islamic and Christian tombs in the city of Yāfā in Palestine by extremist Jews and writing provocative racial expressions on them.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Dr. Mahmūd 'Azab, adviser to the Azhar's Grand Shaykh, said that the Azhar can have dialogue with Jews except those who are living with Israel. He added that it is a red line that no one can cross. The Azhar as an institution will never accept having dialogue or communicating with any human being...
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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.