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Date of source: Sunday, June 14, 2009
Egypt’s State film censors ban a film dealing with the niqāb because it ’defames Islam and state policy’.
Date of source: Monday, May 11, 2009
Egypt welcomed news of President Obama’s expected visit to Egypt in June. The Azhar and the muftī of Egypt hailed Obama’s choice of Egypt and welcomed the visit and the expected discourse as a promising sign of improving relations between the U.S administration and Muslim countries.
Date of source: Thursday, April 23, 2009
The Administrative Court approved the Azhar decision not to enroll Christian students at the Azhar University.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The following lines present Muslim scholars and lecturers at the Azhar University’s opinions about the recent crisis between the Vatican and Israel on the background of the reinstallation of a Catholic bishop who doubted the number of people killed in the Holocaust. The Vatican pope seems to be...
Date of source: Sunday, January 11, 2009
The author believes that Christian students should be allowed to enroll in the non-theological schools of the Azhar University but does not support the idea of a Coptic university.
Date of source: Sunday, January 4, 2009
"The Azhar and the West; dialogue and communication," this was the title of the conference that was held on January 3, 2009. The following lines present extracts from the words of Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, president of the Azhar University, Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, grand imām of the Azhar and Dr. Mahmūd...
Date of source: Friday, January 2, 2009
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, president of the Azhar University called for finding a vent out of the crisis of Arab-West dialogue to present the correct image of Islam.
Date of source: Thursday, June 26, 2008
The author discusses the importance of language, particularly as it relates to the mis-communication that can often happen when languages are being translated due to cultural differences that may not necessarily hold true across cultures and languages.
Date of source: Thursday, December 18, 2008
A number of interesting reports and papers written by Arab West Report interns are featured in this week’s edition. These reports cover issues such as church building, disputes over church property and a report on a recent international congress about Ibn ‘Arabi that was held in Cairo.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 16, 2008
An important international congress on the 13th century Andalusian sūfī philosopher Ibn ‘Arabi has just finished in the Egyptian capital. The author also brings the reader’s attention to two articles about the role of the Muslim Brotherhood and an interesting article about freedom of expression in...
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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.