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Date of source: Friday, December 17, 2010
In a clear divergence from official pronouncements that ban the activity, some 200 Shī‘ah men, women, and children in white robes shut themselves into the Al-Husayn Mosque and performed their rights for more than an hour on Wednesday.
They were not prevented by security nor by the mosque...
Date of source: Friday, December 17, 2010
This column consists of a vitriolic attack on the treatment of women in Muslim countries, with special emphasis on the recent flogging of a woman in Sudan.
"If you wish to determine the reasons for the Muslim nation's economic and social backwardness, then observe the behavior of Muslims," the...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
The author says that Egyptian ruler Muhammad ‘Alī Pasha was truly the paragon of modern secularism in the East.
"There was creative interaction between his policies and the ideas of Rafā‘ah al-Tahtāwī, the bringer of the modern Arab renaissance," Shūbāshī writes
What then happened to have...
Date of source: Monday, December 6, 2010
CIDT Intern Jacquelaine Wong compares the character of Fahri in the 2008 Indonesian film entitled Ayat Ayat Cinta (the Verse of Love) to the lives of Indonesian students who come to study at Cairo's Azhar University...
Date of source: Friday, November 5, 2010
In the light of the recent “Sayyidat al-Najāh” church massacre by al-Qā‘idah in Iraq and threats made against the Egyptian church, member of the Shurá Council affiliated to al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmiyyah, Dr. Nājih Ibrāhīm, is interviewed by al-Dustūr. He said that, according to Islamic Sharī’ah, Muslims...
Date of source: Thursday, November 4, 2010
CIDT Intern Vanessa Panaligan analyzes the role and effectiveness of a new breed of religious authority--the Islamic telepreacher....
Date of source: Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Nasr Hāmid Abū Zayd, a leading Egyptian Qur'anic thinker, passed away in July at the age of 66. He had become a good friend of the Arab West Report over the years. In the first of a series of articles commemorating the life and work of Nasr Abū Zayd, Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman looks back on...
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 2010
The Azhar Scholars Front said they were happy with Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib’s decision to cancel his meeting with the Iranian Vice President, Hamid Baghai. Head of the Scholars Front, Dr. Muhammad Al-Barrī, requested there be no official meetings between the Azhar and Iran unless the ‘Umar Ibn al-...
Date of source: Thursday, October 7, 2010
Head of "The Committee of Embracing Islam," Amīn ‘Aāmer, revealed the ease of legally converting to Islam. The whole process is walked through by The Azhar (including issuing new commercial registers to avoid tithing) and takes only half an hour. ‘Aāmer claims to have converted many priests, nuns,...
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Dr. Ibraheem Nigm explains how Islamophobes are playing on people's emotions regarding 9/11 to promote hate against American-Muslims. Most Muslim-Americans believe that the current prejudice against them is just a phase that almost every ethnic group in America has experienced, and that it will...
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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.