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Date of source: Sunday, August 3, 2014
Many authors in Egyptian media are discussing how the iron fist security policies of the government, without holding a dialogue among political groups, have assisted in the radicalization of some insurgent groups in Sinai towards terrorism. The continuation of these iron fist polices, without...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Egyptians have been celebrating the outcome of the presidential elections after preliminary results favored al- Sīsī with over 93% of the vote. Indeed, al- Sīsī is viewed by many groups as a savior who has rescued Egypt from the drones of backward and extremist Islamists. However, little has been...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Cairo, Egypt: On April 18 and 19, a two-day training session was conducted for the project: A project with and about women in Egypt, post 25 January Revolution[1]. The training took place in the office of Center for Arab-West Understanding, located in Maadi, and the aim was to develop the skills...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 15, 2014
When interviewing the most crucial thing is to have a well-prepared interview guide that allows the interviewer to control and direct the interview in the most beneficial way possible for the research as a whole. Our focus will be on interview guides used for semi-structured interviews.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Open Space Technology was developed by Harrison Owen and is a simple way to facilitate meetings, conferences, workshops and other organizational gatherings. It is engaging yourself in discussions that you like and find fruitful, centred on topics you find crucial, to which you believe to have...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Editor: Christine Guirguis (21) is currently working as an assistant on a project with and about women in Egypt, post 25 January revolution, which is led by Peter Hervik, a Danish Professor at Aalborg University (AAU) in Denmark. Accompanied by Mette Toft Nielsen, the daily project coordinator of...
Date of source: Thursday, July 10, 2014
President Muhammad Mursi was removed on July 3, 2013. His supported promised large-scale demonstrations in protest of this removal one year later. There have been demonstrations but they were far from large-scale.
Egypt has received very negative Western press since Mursi’s removal for human rights...
Date of source: Thursday, July 10, 2014
Egypt is a deeply polarized society and we, both the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation, and the Center for Arab-West Understanding, do not in any way want to defend one particular partisan cause. Our purpose is to create an understanding of the developments taking place in Egypt, to...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 9, 2014
On June the 26th of 2014, The Center for Arab West Understanding organized a forum meeting titled: Egypt’s constitution 2012-2014. The forum was attended by our staff, interns, friends, and supporters. The speaker for this meeting was Diana Serôdio. Diana has a degree in Political Science and...
Date of source: Sunday, June 29, 2014
The relationship between expatriates living in Egypt and Ramadan can be a love-hate relationship. Some might argue that Ramadan is the ‘most unproductive month of the year’. People work less hours and businesses can get a bit slow. On the other hand, however, very few can deny the level of...
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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.