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Date of source: Friday, November 17, 2006
Transcript of a speech presented by William Dalrymple at the American University in Cairo, highlighting his experiences traveling to Christian Holy sites throughout the Middle East, as well as his personal interpretation of political Islām. He includes references to both historical and present day...
Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2006
Views of Muslim scholars differ over whether to accept the so-called "apology" of Pope Benedict for the remarks he made about Islam a few weeks ago. Nearly 38 Muslim scholars and leaders sent a letter to the pope to indicate their appreciation of the pope’s expression of regret and his affirmation...
Date of source: Sunday, September 24, 2006
The author discusses internal conflict within institutional churches.
Date of source: Saturday, August 12, 2006 to Friday, August 18, 2006
The article discusses the belief rampant in extremist circles in the US and
Europe about the end-of-the-world battle of Armageddon. Many voices consider the Israeli war in southern
Lebanon to
be the final confrontation between the forces of good and evil.
Date of source: Sunday, July 9, 2006
The author reviews a book by Islamic thinker Muhammad
Salīm al-‘Awwā about
relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in an Islamic state and
casts doubts about the alleged moderate approach
of al-‘Awwā.
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2001 to Friday, October 26, 2001
In this article Bishop Yohanna Qulta gives an overview of the history of the Crusader wars. He expressed the opinion that in order to study the history of the Crusades, we have to remove Islam and Christianity as motives for them because, they were not directed at Islam although they were fought...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 3, 2006
In the month of January, Egyptian Christians celebrate Eastern Christmas, and Muslims celebrate the festival of ‘Īd al-Adha.
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
In a muffled battle, some books with various names are introduced as new gospels. Other books are released soon after to refute the authenticity of these gospels. The latest of these books carries the name “The Didache Gospel." The author of the book about this gospel, Dr. Ahmed Hegazi Al-Saqa,...
Date of source: Thursday, January 8, 2004
Arab-West Report presented the draft text of the findings of its staff to Compass Direct. Compass Direct responded on November 21 with “We consider your condemnation as both unwarranted and unjustified. We stand by the story.” Compass Direct refused to provide further explanations. This made the...
Date of source: Friday, April 1, 2005
The chapters of
insulting Muslim sanctities by Western colonialists are still going on as during the barbaric American attack on the tiny
Iraqi city of Falluja in October and November 2004, the soldiers destroyed most of the city’s mosques and perpetrated crimes
of war and crimes against...
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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.