Date of source: Tuesday, May 16, 2006
AWR asked our former intern Maria Roeder, a student of media science at the University of Jena in Germany, to summarize a study commissioned by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Interior about Austrian media reporting on Muslims and about media from countries with Muslim majorities reporting about...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Articles following the visit of Prof. van Agt.
Media being selective in reporting issues.
Current media reporting does not enhance integration of Muslims within European societies.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Articles following the visit of Prof. Andreas van Agt.
Year report 2005 reports about progress and constraint.
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
Analysis of the Denmark cartoons issue by Dr. Hasan Muhammad Wajīh, expert of linguistics of negotiation and cross-cultural communication at the Azhar University and moderator of the April 15, 2006 discussion at El-Sawy Culture Wheel on ‘Freedom of expression and respect for the other. How to...
Date of source: Thursday, October 18, 2001
Dr. Nasr Abu Zayd is upset about the media debate on Islam in the West. Abu Zayd rejects the view that Islam should be held responsible for extremist attacks. The political discourse as reflected in Western media did not mind its language. The media debate on Islam is getting more entrapped in the...
Date of source: Saturday, October 6, 2001 to Friday, October 12, 2001
The attacks of September 11 brought forth feelings of rage against everything that has to do with Islam. Wearing a veil is considered to be an explicit sign of Islam and its political attitude. The West has attacked the veil considering it a sign of Islam and its attitudes. The West’s attack on the...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 26, 2001
The author stressed that individual or mass suicide is not a recent Arabic-Islamic invention and that those who carried out the attacks in America were not necessarily Arabs or Muslims because American agents are only outnumbered by those who hate America’s arrogance.
Date of source: Friday, September 21, 2001
The article gives excerpts of the address President George W. Bush gave after the attacks in America. Bush thanked the world for its outpouring of support. He pointed out that all the evidence they gathered pointed to Al-Qaida group led by Usama Bin Laden. He stressed that America’s enemy is not...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Ihāb ‘Abd al-Hamīd examines the origins of the word Holocaust and discusses one source of Nazi ideology.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Ihāb ‘Abd al-Hamīd argues that although the victims of the Holocaust were primarily Jews, others groups regarded as undesirable were also murdered and persecuted, including gay men, Soviet prisoners of war, gypsies and disabled people.