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Many Arab authors and thinkers highlighted the necessity of using the Arab participation at the Frankfurt Book Fair as ''guest of honor'' to mirror a positive image of Arabs and Muslims to the West. The fair administration dedicated about 1260 m2 for the Arab publishing houses, the biggest space...
Date of source: Sunday, February 23, 2003
The article sheds light on 34 characteristics of Annemarie Schimmel as an orientalist. The author believes that she was an envoy to revive Muslims in an age of deterioration.
Date of source: Sunday, February 16, 2003
An overview of some of President Mubarak´s speeches on terrorism that he directed to the West. The author believes that such speeches are very important at this specific time, as they represent the sound of moderate Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, December 8, 2002
Attacks upon Islam in the Western media is taken as a sign of Western democracy and freedom of expression. The matter has reached a point where the West is distorting the Qur´an through translation. Translations by German Orientalists are partial and not complete. Even some Orientalists who do...
Date of source: Sunday, November 10, 2002
The article gives an overview of two Swiss books on Islam, "Islam in Switzerland” and "The Arab World in the Eyes of the Swiss: The Middle East, The Core of Conflict." The two books show how Swiss think about Islam and how Muslims live in Switzerland.
Date of source: Sunday, November 3, 2002
German orientalist Gernot Rotter published a study titled “Islam, the New Illusionary Enemy of the West.” The study states that the imagined mutual hostilities between Islam and the West is not based on disagreement in faith. The fact that Islam is defined on religious bases and the West is defined...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
This year, Arabs and Muslims have a very good opportunity at the Frankfurt International Book Fair. Thousands of European thinkers, scholars, and intellectuals will gather in this fair. The main theme of the book fair is Arab civilization, Arab and Islamic issues and the contributions of Arabs and...
Date of source: Sunday, April 15, 2001
The author asks how Muslims can face the Orientalists whose goal is to defame Islam in Western minds, and falsify history, showing Islam in the worst image possible. The answer involves the entity and religion of the Muslim nation, as well as its culture and civilization, past, and future. Some...
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.