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Date of source: Monday, December 29, 2003
The author tries to reinterpret the September 11 attacks in the light of a play by Edward Albee entitled “The Zoo Story.” The play tackles the theme of lack of communication. The two main characters in the play came together through a knife. The crash of the suicide planes into the twin towers of...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 2, 2003
In a sarcastic tone, the author claims that he reads many articles in the Arabic press that make pretty and heavy reading but are in effect taken from the foreign press. These articles are assembled and their authors give them Islamized introductions and nationalistic conclusions. He calls this “...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 3, 2003
The Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood denied that there have been contacts between leaders of the Brotherhood and American officials. The denial came in a response to the article by Ma´moun Fandy published in Asharq Al-Awsat about the “dialogue between the Brotherhood and Americans in...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 25, 2003
The article reports on the annual meeting of the Brotherhood International Organization, held in Qatar. Such meeting put forth questions on the role of Qatar, the new trends within the Brotherhood organization, and the American-Brotherhood dialogue. There was a European-Brotherhood dialogue in...
Date of source: Sunday, October 12, 2003
Ahmed Hashim gives an overview of an article published in Newsweek about the Muslim Brotherhood under the title “The Longest Hand of Jihad.” The article accuses the Muslim Brotherhood of being a radical terrorist group that supports the Qa´ida network. Newsweek approached Egyptian writer Ma...
Date of source: Thursday, October 2, 2003
The article gives an analytic American view of the Muslim Brotherhood based on a report published in Newsweek magazine, September 30, 2003.
Date of source: Monday, August 11, 2003
The author compares between the Arab and Western media in an extended image in which he likens the media to a three-ring circus. He believes that Arab media perform in the outer rings of the circus, away from the middle ring where the greatest show takes place. However, the middle ring is occupied...
Date of source: Monday, June 23, 2003
The author explains that there is a difference between true Islam and violent Islam adopted by members of the Qa´ida and other Islamic groups. He writes that Muslims should stand against this violent Islam.
Date of source: Monday, May 12, 2003
The author discusses the relations between the Muslim Brotherhood and the US throughout its history. He points out a recent study conducted by the political section of the group on the necessity of building bridges of communication between the group and the US. He comments on the meeting held...
Date of source: Monday, August 15, 2005
The author states that the democracy of the West, which is based on intellectual affiliation between people, does not match the Arab world, since it has not yet been modernized. He claims that the best version of democracy in the Arab world is that which depends on a "change" of power between...
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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.