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Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2005
Western hostility against Islam, as Andrea Louege explains, is an outcome of deficiencies in European curricula because they lack information about the Middle East and its historical relations with the West.
Date of source: Friday, May 20, 2005
In spite of its universal call for coexistence and tolerance, the West is still incapable of fathoming the essence of Islam. Some Western mass media represent Islam with repulsion. This tarnishes the image of Islam and Muslims. Therefore, it is time to develop modern strategies that eliminate this...
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2005
The Ministry of Social Affairs is considering accepting the first Arab organization to defend Islam and attempt to understand and communicate with the other. It is called “The Center for Arab West Understanding.” It is established by a wide array of Muslim and Coptic thinkers and some Western...
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2005
Bernard Lewis delivered a speech at Georgetown University that was published later in ‘Foreign Affairs.’ Lewis spoke about Islamic political thought and presented a background about the conceptualization of freedom and justice in the Islamic jurisprudence. He cites the roots of tyranny in the...
Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2002
Egyptian Cultural TV broadcasted on October 27 a live discussion with Patrick Haenni, social researcher at the CEDEJ in Cairo and Cornelis Hulsman on inter-religious dialogue in a program of Heba Fahmy, “We and the Other.” Much of Egyptian and Western news reporting about the Arab World is not...
Date of source: Saturday, October 5, 2002
The author believes that the recommendation of the Creed and Philosophy Committee in the Islamic Research Institute that the apostate is to be given a lifetime chance to renounce his apostate ideas is not a renewal in the Islamic fiqh. The recommendation has been made only because of the...
Date of source: Monday, September 9, 2002
The Mufti of Egypt is an example of open-mindedness, good morals and adherence to Islamic principles. He understands well the fact that opinion in Islam is based on variety. The article gives some of his statements that reflect all these attributes.
Date of source: Sunday, August 4, 2002
Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid speaks about the problem of linking Islam with terrorism and presents two approaches to deal with the problem. The first is to show Qur’anic texts that call for peace and tolerance and to interpret the texts calling for violence within the framework of their historical...
Date of source: Sunday, July 14, 2002
Dr. Sufi Abu Taleb, the former president of the People’s Assembly, clarifies the realities and advantages of Islam. He said that Islam has nothing to do with religious dogmatism and discrimination because it recognizes the other religions as valid. He added that it is unfair for Western researchers...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 12, 2002
The article discusses three points: the biases and assumptions of the Western media and its thinking about the Arab world, the limits on political and press freedom in Egypt and the style of journalism this produces in Egypt and what the press can do to improve the image of Egypt.
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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.