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Date of source: Sunday, November 26, 2006
October presents the opinion of Uri Avnery, an Israeli author, writing
about the “conflict of civilizations.” October writes that Avnery has shown support to the Prophet of Islām
and
Muslims against false accusations and mistrust promoted by the head of the Catholic Church.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2006
The article reports on public opinion and official stand points on the European constitution and
Turkey’s membership in the EU
Date of source: Thursday, October 26, 2006
Explaining the broad meaning of the concept of jihād in Islām, Muslim thinker Rajab al-Bannā quoted famous British writer Karen Armstrong’s definition of it as "struggle and effort, not a synonym for holy war as Westerners define it." Ahmad ‘Izz al-Dīn al-‘Arab wrote in a short article in al-Wafd...
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Daniel Henninger argues that given the popularity of ‘The Da Vinci Code’, conspiracy theories clearly have no limits.
Date of source: Friday, May 19, 2006
The author thinks
that Dā‘iya ‘Amr
Khālid has managed to attract the West’s attention,
while the Egyptian government, the opposition
parties and other political currents are engaged in a useless
row. She sheds light on a recent New York
Times’ report on the dā‘iya entitled,
"Offer a helping...
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2006
Jeff Jacoby argues that though his grandparents, aunts and uncles died at Auschwitz, Austria is committing a grave error by imprisoning David Irving for Holocaust denial, since freedom for the thought we hate, is the true test of freedom of thought.
Date of source: Monday, December 15, 2003
The article gives an overview of TV series Al-Shatat [Diaspora], aired by Al-Manaar TV channel of Hizbullah during the latest Ramadan, and was highly criticized by Washington on the pretext that it is anti-Semitic. The author praised Al-Manaar for not paying attention to the American criticism,...
Date of source: Monday, September 8, 2003
The article comments on the relation between Ma´amoun Al-Hodeibi, the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the group to show that he does not deserve his position.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
Khalid Dowran is a Muslim Arab living in America. He wrote a book titled “The Seed of Abraham…Towards an Understanding of Islam.” The book caused a wide controversy to the extent that the leader of one of the Islamic groups in Jordan issued a fatwa that charges Dowran of kufr [unbelief]. In the...
Date of source: Saturday, April 2, 2005
There is a wide-ranged white slavery [sex traffic] affair that afflicts countries like Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Romania, on different levels. Dr. Sema Erder, a Turkish researcher in the social sciences, commented saying that the targeted women in sex slavery are young...
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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.