Date of source: Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Discussion on “Freedom of expression and respect for ‘the other’ How to respond if one is offended?” organized by CIDT and Al-Sawy Cultural Wheel.
Request for NGO Status, decision again postponed.
Dr. Maurice Assad, former assistant secretary-general of the MECC and friend of AWR, passed away....
Date of source: Thursday, April 6, 2006
Incidents around the Coptic Orthodox Church of al-Udaysāt.
Preparations for the visit of former Dutch Prime Minister van Agt to AWR in May.
Date of source: Thursday, March 23, 2006
Articles showing examples of the ongoing polarization between Israel and the Arab world.
Consequences of the Alexandria church’s play which sparked sectarian riots in 2005.
Date of source: Sunday, January 8, 2006
A critique of the Egyptian government’s handling of the Sudanese refugees protesting in Cairo.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Memories of Dr. Otto Meinardus, and the position he took between two cultures, particularly in relation to his stance on Coptic Orthodox traditions.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper.
Ayad Mossad, chairman Stichting Arab-West Understanding, visited AWR to help and discuss the request for NGO status.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Efforts to obtain NGO status.
Media attention for AWR work.
Israeli organizations publishing about radical Arab and Islamic websites.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2006
AWR is still dealing with the ongoing postponement of obtaining an NGO status.
Recommendation of a comment showing that much of Muslim-Christian tensions are under the surface.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 25, 2005
A discussion of the issue of freedom of expression, and media responsibility, following the publication, in a Danish newspaper, of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, perceived by Muslims as anti-Islamic.
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
The assassination of Theo van Gogh resulted in a debate in Dutch media about the limits of the freedom of expression. Van Gogh himself specialized in offensive language against religion; his words were deliberately calculated to hurt people. Others, found van Gogh had gone too far, misused the...