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Date of source: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
On October 11, 2009 Her Excellency Dr. Mrs. Jihān al-Sādāt presented a lecture to the Women’s Association of Cairo at the Oriental Hall of the American University of Cairo. During the lecture she highlighted the role of women’s rights and education as well as looking at her husband’s policies and...
Date of source: Friday, November 7, 2008
The renowned scholar John Esposito has published his views on the effect that the election of President Obama will have on U.S relations with the Middle East. He comments that in the Muslim world, as in Europe and much of the world, Obama is welcomed as an internationalist president.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The Egyptian press has referred to Muhammad Sven Kalisch’s text about the Prophet Muhammad as an offence against Islam. However if the type of analytical approach he uses can be applied by Muslims toward the Bible then Muslims must accept it when others do the same about Islam. The effects of the U...
Date of source: Friday, April 18, 2008
Labīb Halīm Labīb presents the views of American writer John Esposito on thoughts of the Islamic movements in Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, March 14, 2008
The assertion of political freedom and the electoral and democratic transformation in the Muslim world does not mean the blind acceptance of Western forms of democracy. Islamic democracy is bound to and directed by Sharī‘ah.
Date of source: Sunday, February 10, 2008
Nabīl ‘Abd al-FattāḤ wrote an excellent article on some biased Western authors.
Sāmih Fawzī believed that the mental image of the West in Arab minds is one of the main obstacles to successful dialogue between the West and Arab nations.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 16, 2007
This is an article about American thinker John Esposito, who aims to reach the truth behind Islām and the motives of the Islamic resurgence movements. He established the Center of Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, Washington.
Date of source: Saturday, October 14, 2006
The
author of the article presents a few excerpts of the works of some academics on
new Zionism in Islam and
Christianity and comments on some of them.
Date of source: Monday, July 21, 1997
Subtitle:In the 1970s Muslims used machine guns. Now extremists use courts and cases.Algeria cancelled the 1992 elections, which the Muslims dominated, yet it suffered more by cancelling them.The problem in Turkey is the extremism of the secularists.Kamal Attaturk banned Turks from travelling to...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 10, 2001
In his book "The Islamic threat, myth...or reality?" John Esposito answers the question of whether Islam, after the fall of Communism as a universal power, has become the greatest threat for the West. He represents a methodical prognosis of the political positions in the most important nations...
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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.