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Date of source: Friday, July 15, 2011
The Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court ruled on July 3 that Christians who had converted to Islam but now wish to return to Christianity can be identified again as Christians on their national identification cards. AWR Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman says that the decision is an important step...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Fully deserving of his many titles, the glorious scholar and professor, Dr. Ahmad ‘Abd al-Rahīm al-Sāyih passed away on July 7, 2011, fully engaged in life at the age of 74. Dr. al-Sāyih died while filming an interview for the revolutionary-born al-Tahrir Television channel, speaking about his...
Date of source: Thursday, June 30, 2011
Earlier this month, AWR hosted a peace-building workshop that aimed to lessen tensions between Egypt's Christian and Muslim communities. AWR's Jayson Casper attended the conference and has this report....
Date of source: Thursday, June 30, 2011
Former enemies in a bitter sectarian conflict, Imam Muhammad Ashafa and Pastor James Wuye now work together for peace between their respective Muslim and Christian communities in Nigeria. They recently held a pair of peacebuilding workshops in Cairo hosted by CAWU....
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Date of source: Thursday, June 30, 2011
The article is not meant to give a direct answer to the headline question. Rather, it seeks to clarify all meanings related to fanaticism, hard-line orientations and extremism, which all stand at loggerheads with the concept of tolerance.
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Date of source: Saturday, June 25, 2011
Last week, an Amsterdam court found Dutch politican Geert Wilders not guilty of inciting hatred against Muslims. AWR Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman argues that Wilders' inflammatory statements about Islam should not be protected by Dutch law.
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Date of source: Thursday, June 23, 2011
While Egypt is currently soul searching about its coming political identity, with Islamist governance among the many possible democratic choices, it is good to remember the suffering endured by these groups over the past several decades.
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Date of source: Sunday, June 19, 2011
The Center for Arab-West Understanding hosted a workshop featuring Imām Muhammad Ashafa and Pastor James Wuye in Alexandria, June 13-14, 2011, and in Cairo June 15-16, 2011.
The workshop was about peace-building and preventing future sectarian troubles between Muslims and Christians in Egypt.
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Date of source: Saturday, June 11, 2011
What are the aims of the Muslim Brotherhood's newly founded political party? And what will be the relationship between the FJP and its founding group? AWR's Jayson Casper attended the FJP's first public conference at a meeting earlier this month in Cairo and has this report...
Date of source: Saturday, June 11, 2011
Many Egyptian religious leaders are reluctant to endorse a draft law that would unify the building code for the nation's churches, mosques, and other places of worship, according to various reports in Egyptian newspapers.
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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.