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Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2023
Sheikh Muḥammad Abū al-Qatʿa, who appeared in a video playing football inside the mosque, revealed that the boys who appeared with him had been training outside whilst it was raining, and that what he did was not a violation of Sharīʿa.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Leaders from the Catholic Church and Christian aid organizations discuss the church’s important role in providing aid and support to all who are in need of help, particularly refugees from Syria, considering the region’s suffering from armed conflicts, violent extremism, massive human displacement...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 26, 2022
According to Sonia Rizq writing in al-Diyyār, the fears and concerns of the Maronite Patriarch, H.G. Cardinal Mar Bishāra al-Rāʿī are manifested in his Sunday sermons and in all his positions, due to his fear for the fate of Lebanon in general, and for Christians in particular, who tend to emigrate...
Date of source: Monday, September 6, 2021
Maria Kicha is a Russian writer, a PhD in Law, a historian, and traveler. Apart from teaching at Russian State University of Justice, research of the Middle East is her key occupation. Even though she does not usually refer to herself as an Oriental Studies specialist, Maria is the author of three...
Date of source: Sunday, January 24, 2021
1. Anton Wessels, The Grand Finale. The Apocalypse in the Tanakh, the Gospel, and the Qur’an, Translated by Henry Jansen and Lucy Hofland, Wipf & Stock, Eugene, Oregon, 2020, 321 pp. Paperback $ 35 E-book $ 9.99 This English version is dedicated to Professor Saeid Edalatnejad of the...
Date of source: Friday, April 3, 2020
The voice of Lebanese singer Fayrūz [Fairouz] has borne the capacity to respond to people’s pain in their wars and suffering. However, in a video clip she posted to her YouTube channel on Friday, she chose to raise her voice in prayer by reading out loud from the Bible.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 5, 2020
On Wednesday Shaykh of al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib dispatched an urgent medical and relief convoy from al-Azhar to Lebanon to stand in solidarity with the Lebanese, and mitigate the repercussions of the Beirut explosion that shook the Lebanese capital and the hearts of millions of people around...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Father George Shīḥān, Archbishop of Cairo Maronite Church and head of the Maronite institutions in Egypt, offered his condolences to the victims of the explosion that took place yesterday in Beirut’s port. The Lebanese-Maronite Information and Cultural Center in Cairo issued a statement in which...
Date of source: Thursday, August 6, 2020
Dr. Yāsir ʿIlwī, the Egyptian Ambassador to Lebanon, has said that Egypt will launch an air bridge to aid Lebanon; the aid extends over four phases. The first phase will be focused on medical aid, with nine tons of aid supplies. While the second batch will deliver medical and food supplies,...
Date of source: Monday, July 29, 2019
A new study reveals a decrease in the Christian population by a third, yet the Ṭāʾif Agreement imposes parity.
Only a few buildings are still inhabited by Christians west of the old Ṣaydā road in al- Ḥadath area in the suburb of Southern Beirut, after the departure of hundreds of people, and the...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
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.