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Date of source: Monday, December 16, 2013
On May 16, 2013, Arab-West Report was able to interview a former security advisor for the government in North Sinai, who preferred to stay anonymous. A general in the army, his posting began in 2005 and lasted until November, 2012, when he resigned in disagreement with the Mursī administration for...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 28, 2013
On April 25, 2013, Jihad Watch contributor Raymond Ibrahim (Ibrāhīm) published in Middle East Forum what he titled “Death to Churches Under Islam; A Study of the Coptic Church.”
His text is a collection of frequently returning claims without proper sourcing, falsely pretending statements of some...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
From April 25-28 I traveled with Arab West Report through a few Upper Egyptian Holy Family sites, places Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are recorded to have stayed according to Coptic tradition. This travelogue will share some of the insights and anecdotes learned along the way, by means of pictures taken...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
For the third time hundreds of protesters surrounded and blockaded a church that has been accused of converting, hiding, and smuggling a young Muslim young woman out of the country with a Coptic man. Stones and Molotov cocktails were thrown at the security forces and the church, and the police...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Violent clashes occurred off Virgin Mary Monastery at Jabal al-Tayr in Samallūt Township of al-Minya Governorate, between security forces and Copts from the village. Protesters threw stones at the police while the police responded with tear gas. A number of five people were arrested and two...
Date of source: Sunday, September 16, 2012
Christian denominations warned of the loss of the Egyptian people's right to express their anger towards the "Innocence of Muslims," a film discrediting the Prophet Muhammad, because of the violent acts that erupted around the United States Embassy in Cairo.
Date of source: Thursday, September 13, 2012
The Israeli media outlets broadcasted extensive media coverage of the killing of the United States Ambassador in Libya . Further, it expressed its concern about statements that an Israeli Jew produced the film.
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said that it is a provocative movie that mocked the Prophet...
Date of source: Thursday, June 21, 2012
Who will be Egypt’s next president? Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad Mursī or the representative of the old National Democratic Party, Ahmad Shafiq? Both claim victory. Mursī has claimed victory from the first minute that the polling stations closed on June 17. How he could know this? I don’t...
Date of source: Friday, April 15, 2011
Text presented for the European-Arab Dialogue Conference at Crete, April 14-16, 2011.
In the past 50 years millions of migrants from southern Mediterranean countries have entered Europe. Of course Europe has witnessed migration gulfs earlier but this one was the first with so many people coming...
Date of source: Saturday, December 10, 2011
News is almost never as it appears. On December 1st I went with investigative researcher and former lieutenant with the Egyptian coastal security Intelligence Rā’id al-Sharqāwī to Tahrīr square. The square is currently blocked for traffic by perhaps 2,000 demonstrators asking people wanting to...
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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.