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Date of source: Thursday, March 2, 2006
Amid growing anger in the Muslim world over the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, views have differed on whether it is the right time for Muslims to enter into dialogue with Denmark on freedom of expression and respect for religions. This press review highlights the opinions of two...
Date of source: Saturday, March 4, 2006
The author writes on the punishment received by the British historian David Irving and London Mayor Ken Livingstone for offending Jews, saying that this proves that freedom of expression in Europe is not as absolute as one might imagine.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
The Egyptian cultural scene during 2003 was more like a farce. Dozens of conferences on art, cinema, drama, and music were held. But all of them were useless, for they did not discuss the real issues. Many creative intellectuals attacked and criticized these conferences, even before they were held...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
The International Zionist Agency warns the Jews in the world in general, and the Jews in Europe in particular, against having relations with Muslims, even if those Muslims are moderate. The Agency thinks that there is an unbridgeable ideological gap between Jews and Muslims, and that Muslims who...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
The author comments on the speech given by a retired Israeli Mossad officer called Avi Lipkin, who gave many lectures in Switzerland and many other European countries under the auspices of a suspicious Christian organization called "The Friends of Israel." Lipkin started his latest lecture in Bern...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Al-Muhajeroun [the immigrants], the most important Fundamentalist movement in Britain, will hold a number of Islamic conferences in the beginning of the year 2004. The leader of the movement, Omar Bakri, stated that the new conference entitled "In Confrontation with Former Fundamentalist Thought,"...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Some economists have discussed the influence of religion on economics. They say that the weak economy of the Muslim countries is due to their religion. But the economist Marcos Noland of the International Institution for Economics in Washington says that Islam encourages development. Many people...
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 30, 2003
The Kuwaiti National Assembly witnessed a very heated debate over educational strategy and reform of school curricula. The 14-member Islamic parliamentary bloc stressed that it will use its constitutional tools against the Minister of Education in case he was influenced by claims that the current...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Members of the Kuwaiti National Council warned the Minister of Education Rashid Al-Hamad against making any change in the curricula of Islamic education. They demanded that curricula upgrades be limited to scientific subjects in order to cope with the developments of the age and the requirements of...
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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.