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Throughout his life, AWR friend Henk Glimmerveen (1923-2020) showed that engaged citizens can make a difference.
Date of source: Friday, December 16, 2011
One must be cautious when writing about religious leaders, as they have mastered the art of speaking to an audience. Humans have a penchant for self-deception and self-justification; when mixed with religious language manipulation is easily manufactured, even if unintentionally advanced. People who...
Date of source: Sunday, May 16, 2010
With the tensions that have escalated between the West and the Islamic world since the September 11th attacks, foreign governments have advocated for a reform of religious education in Muslim-majority countries.
Date of source: Sunday, July 1, 2007
The author discusses the knighthood being awarded to Salman Rushdie, author of “The Satanic Verses.” This action has again fuelled tensions between the Arab world and the West. The author comments on the situation, and questions where this animosity really originates.
Date of source: Thursday, March 8, 2007
Usāmah Haykal reports on the phenomenon of Islamophobia and the image of Islām in the West.
Date of source: Monday, July 28, 1997
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Demonstration in front of the Egyptian consulate in New York; 16 Copts murdered per minute C.N.N.-TV; Egypt is a place of persecution. See how they treat monkeys and bears in the zoo. Mahmoud Wahba: Jews are using Copts to cover a disaster among them.
Rose al- Yūsuf, July 28, is also...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 22, 1997
Dr. Milad Hanna, one of Egypt’s most prominent Christians, author of many books on Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt and columnist in Al-Ahram, is very dismayed about the proposed American religious freedom law. In an article in Al-Ahram of July 22 he writes that there are sectarian clashes which...
Date of source: Monday, June 12, 2006
An interview with Mustafa al- Zayyāt, member of al-Jam‘āt al- Islāmīya and the main attorney defending those accused of Islamic fundamentalism, concerning Ayman al-Zawāhirī whom he knew very well from the days they spent together in al-Qal‘a Prison.
Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2003
The Minister of Interior says that the Brotherhood wants to have a political role in spite of everybody’s well-being and that the Al-Qai’da Network announced it has plans for specific goals. He adds that the police thwarted a plan of the Jihad group and the court ruling on this case will be made...
Date of source: Friday, June 24, 2005
The new thing about al-Qā‘ida’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawāhirī tape aired by the Doha-based Aljazeera news channel on June 17, 2005 was that it focused on his concept of “reform,” “freedom” and “political participation.”