Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Many alternatives were suggested to uproot terrorism. Some of these alternatives were shocking and full of insanity. Alternative 1: suggests that the most advantageous way to overcome terrorism is atheism. Alternative 2: To methodically help immorality prevail in order to distract the youth from...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Ragab Al-Bana writes
about an article published in the International Herald Tribune by Uri Avnery, who is the head of
the Israeli peace movement Gush Shalom and a former member of the Knesset. The article reflects
the opinion of a Jew, an Israeli, and a prominent political and intellectual...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Are all those who criticize Israel anti-Semitic?
Could someone be anti-Zionist without being anti-Semitic? Is Europe once more anti-Semitic? What
about anti-Semitism in the Arab world? All these questions were posed and discussed by eminent
Israeli writer and thinker Uri Avneri.
Is Europe anti-...
Date of source: Friday, July 21, 2000
Rodinson’s book is a project for the joint understanding of Arab academics concerning building a scientific program for Islamic studies. He begins his study by asking many questions, some of which are ’How can we plan for the future of studies of dialogue concerning the Islamic world? What...
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
’Putting Islam to Work’ joins a growing corpus of scholarly works on social change in Egypt and the Middle East which shun those modernization paradigms which inaccurately polarize Muslim societies and their educational institutions into false dichotomies of modern versus traditional, secular...
Date of source: Monday, March 16, 1998
An interview with a controversial writer who questions traditional interpretations of the Qur’an. Al-Qimni and the author who is a religious person apparently clashed over thoughts, resulting in an article that could result in problems for al-Qimni with Islamist radicals.