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Date of source: Thursday, September 27, 2018
Editor Arab-West Report: German nationals Maher Wilson and Susanne Walter have lived between 1995 and 2014 in Sīwah. Their son Mario was born here in 2000, and Lucien was born here in 2003. This was the ideal place for Maher to work on larger translation projects. Susanne was in these years fully...
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Maria van der Hoeven is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party. She served as Minister of Economic Affairs from 2007-2011.
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The Dutch Minister Maria van der Hoeven is in Cairo on a visit the Dutch-Flemish institute. The first topic discussed was...
Date of source: Sunday, April 29, 2012
On the other hand, the Dutch diplomacy and clerics in the Netherlands embarked on activities to disown a new anti-Islam book by ultra-rightist politician Geert Wilders, expected to be published soon in New York.
Wilders, the Dutch lawmaker who devoted his life to “stopping the Islamization of...
Date of source: Monday, March 19, 2012
U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama expressed sadness over the death of Pope Shenouda and described him as a prominent advocate of religious tolerance and dialogue.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also offered condolences to Egyptians over the demise of the pope,...
Date of source: Monday, September 3, 2018
Dr Yusrī Hāshim, President of University of Heliopolis, spoke of the summer school for interfaith and intercultural dialogue, organised in cooperation with the Centre for Arab-West Understanding, and sponsored by the Dutch Reform Party.
Date of source: Thursday, July 25, 2013
Dr. Andrea Zakī, deputy head of the Coptic Evangelical Church, stated that the Army needs the people’s support in these critical times, stressing that the Evangelical Church supports peaceful protests.
For his part, Bishop Yuhannā Qultah, deputy patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church, praised...
Date of source: Saturday, June 8, 2013
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) demanded that the French government not to deport an Egyptian Christian because he fled to France to escape alleged repression. European judges in Strasbourg on Thursday (June 6) considered that his expulsion is a violation of Article III of the European...
Date of source: Saturday, May 11, 2013
In an attempt to bring the historically divided Coptic Orthodox and Catholic churches together, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II met with the Vatican Pope Francis I in the Vatican City. Pope Tawadros’ secretary Angelious Ishāq said the aim of the meeting was to congratulate Pope Francis on his...
Date of source: Monday, April 22, 2013
Former member of the Dutch right-wing Freedom Party and contributor in producing an anti-Islam film Arnaud Fandor embraces Islam. Fandor, who belonged to one of the most "extreme" and "hostile" parties to Islam, said that after watching the reactions against the film, he began to search for the...
Date of source: Monday, February 25, 2013
The Azhar objected to Iran’s release of a film portraying the Prophet Muhammad, stressing that portraying Allah’s Prophets is unlawful. Shaykh ‘Alī ‘Abd al-Bāqī, Secretary-General of the Islamic Research Academy, said that religious scholars in Iran need to strictly cease the release of this film...
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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.