Date of source: Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Notes on the occasion of Prof. Mike Reimer's 60th birthday, assistant professor of history at the American University in Cairo. Muslim-Christian relations are so much more complex as media tend to report.
Date of source: Thursday, May 25, 2006
Comment on Dan Brown’s misleading ‘The Da Vinci Code’, widely seen as an attack on Christian faith.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 1, 2004
This report presents the interviews with nineteen people, 18 Egyptians and one American researcher about the importance of the work of Arab-West Report, people of different backgrounds, Muslims and Christians, clergy and non-clergy, including scholars and human rights lawyers. Christian...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 9, 2003
AWR shows the wide variety in sentiments in the Arab media that reflects general sentiments in society. Western students and writers should not only be aware of those sentiments when writing about any issue related to Arab-West relations but also make an effort to understand them. AWR helps readers...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Comment on Egyptian/Arab media that continues focusing on the religious dimension of the war in Iraq
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2003
Many non-historians tend to extrapolate backwards when thinking about history. The great Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun wrote it is dangerous to judge the past by the present. We are now living through a period in which there are some who wish to pit religion against religion and allege that co-...
Date of source: Saturday, March 8, 2003
Differences in reporting about the Palestinian conflict.
Remark on one of the many books that reinforces prejudices against Islam or the West.
Comment on Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi’s statement that Muslims should not change Islam for the sake of the West.