Date of source: Saturday, September 26, 2020
About 1,574,000 Muslims (3% of the Italian population) are living in Italy, the majority of which of foreign origin. They constitute 29,2% of the migrant community and only 30% are European Muslims (from Albania, Moldavia, Kosovo), whereas 52,7% are from Africa (37,8% from North Africa).[1] The...
Date of source: Monday, June 22, 2020
Dutch journalist and Arabist Eildert Mulder is deeply impressed by the book Ihya ‘Ulum al-Din’ [Iḥyā’ ‘Ulūm al-Dīn] by the medieval Islamic scholar Abu Hamid al-Ghazali [Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī] (c. 1058 – 19 December 1111), parts of which have great value for those who wish to understand human...
Date of source: Monday, June 22, 2020
Dina Bouchkouch, a Muslim Moroccan- French student, interned twice at the Center for Arab-West Understanding, once in 2017 and again in 2019. In 2017 Dina came to know Egyptian Christianity. She wrote about Saint Simon the Tanner’s Monastery and went with Chinese intern Shangyun Shen to Maghagha,...
Date of source: Monday, June 22, 2020
Former French-Moroccan CAWU intern Dina Bouchkouch spoke with students at the webinar of June 22-24, 2020, about her personal experiences with interfaith/intercultural dialogue and why CAWU has been so important to her own personal development. This text was recorded and edited by the different...
Date of source: Monday, July 8, 2019
An interview/lecture from Richard Gauvain regarding the impact of Salafism in Egypt.
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The paper aims at presenting the religious education at the German School in Cairo (DEO) as one of the very few examples of schools offering interreligious education in Egypt. In order to give the cooperative religious education at DEO a fair examination,
Date of source: Monday, October 7, 2024
On the first anniversary of October 7, 2023, the day when the “fuse of hatred was lit” that would begin the war in Gaza, Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church sent a letter addressing all Catholic Christians in the Middle East.
Date of source: Sunday, October 6, 2024
On Sunday, October 6, the eve of the first anniversary of the October 7, 2023 incidents, Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church reiterated his calls for an “immediate ceasefire” in the region of the Middle East, as well as the urgency for the release of the hostages detained in Gaza.
Date of source: Monday, October 14, 2024
Farewell speech for Professor Wolfram Reiss (University of Vienna)
I was born and raised in a conservative Christian Reformed family with beliefs such as the current state of Israel is the promised land for the Jews, negative perspectives on Islam, reading the Qur’an was wrong, the Catholic church...
Date of source: Monday, October 14, 2024
Muslim books on Christian mission for the Mikado library
Christianity In Africa: Missionaries and Change (African Society of Social Sciences: Tripoli, Libya, 1986).
Christian Missionarism and the Alienation of the African Mind (African Society of Social Sciences: Tripoli, Libya, 1986).
I bought...