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Egyptian ʿAyn Shams University Professor Rashād al-Shāmī and fellow colleague al-Baḥrawy discuss the Western belief of anti-Semitism being more prominent in the Arab World than anywhere else. Al-Shāmī mentions the popular Egyptian writer ʾIḥsān ʿAbd al-Quddūs and criticises his work as...
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Fahd al-Fānik is a well-known Jordanian economist and financial consultant. He discusses the issue of the Jordanian economy, the situation of the poor and suggests a number of ways of tackling these issues.
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The Jordanian budget used to depend on foreign aid, dating to when the...
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Aḥmad ʿAṣmat ʿAbd al-Majīd (1.3.1924 – 21.12.2013) was at the time of the interview an Egyptian diplomat and the secretary-general of the Arab League, which consists of 22 members. The Arab League was established in 1945, with the aim of unifying the Arab World and considering the...
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Opposition leader Mahmūd Jibrīl al-Warfalī discusses his viewpoints on the Libyan regime under Muʿammar al-Qadhāfī. The Lockerbie bombing in 1988 is brought up for discussion. Just days before the sabotage of the aircraft, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) had warned...
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2014
Maariv newspaper has reported on a Jewish girl that converted to Islam within the Green Line (Haytham Sulimān, al-Wafd, Jan. 12, p. 16).
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2007
Dr. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Masīrī was born in 1938 in Damanhūr governorate, Egypt. In 1975 he took up a position as Advisor of Cultural Affairs to the Permanent Delegation of the Arab League to the United Nations in New York, which he held until 1979. However, he was not able to resume his earlier...
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2007
Reverend Jerry Lamon Falwell was born on August 11, 1933 in Lynchburg, Virginia and deceased in May 2007. In 1967, Falwell created an evangelical educational institution called the Lynchburg Christian Academy. The most echoing case of insult caused by Falwell was September 2002, when he gave an...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a conference in Jerusalem that “anti-Semitism is being spread anew in the world today, especially in the Middle East and the West.” He added, “anti-Semitism is spreading in the most fanatical regions of the Middle East, saying that it prevails in...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 13, 2015
A group of 64 French intellectuals demanded that there be a distinction made between anti-Semitism and general political criticism. In an open letter signed by the group in a French newspaper, the group claimed that it is the right of the Palestinians to have a state and to be able to achieve their...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 12, 2015
At a party commemorating 50 years of diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel, German President Joachim Gauck expressed his concern over the increasing amount of violence against Jews in Europe. He also urged Germans to confront and fight anti-Semitism in a strong way.
(12 May, 2015, DW, No...
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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.