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Mūnīr Fakhrī ʿAbd al-Nūr was the Secretary-General of Ḥizb al-Wafd (al-Wafd party) and ran for elections in 1995 and again in 2000. Ḥizb al-Wafd is a national liberal political party in Egypt that tries to place itself at the ideological centre, in between the traditional ideologies of...
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Open Doors is a non-denominational mission supporting persecuted Christians in over 60 countries where Christianity is socially or legally oppressed. They are also engaged in the distribution of Bibles and literature. Open Doors aims to raise awareness of religious persecution against...
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ʿIsām al-ʿIrīyān has been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood for many years and served on its Guidance Bureau. He is now the Vice Chairman of Ḥizb al-Ḥurriya w-al-ʿAdāla (Freedom and Justice Party) founded by the Muslim Brotherhood in 2011. Al-ʿIrīyān has been arrested several times;...
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Fārūq Ḥusnī was Minister of Culture in Egypt from 1987 to 2011. During his tenure, he expanded state-run exhibition spaces and initiated a number of cultural programmes such as the Gezira Arts Centre, Alexandria Centre of Arts, the Cairo History Rehabilitation Project (which included a...
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Emanuel Marx was an Israeli professor at Haifa University in Israel and director of the Israeli Academic Centre in Cairo during the 1990s. After the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty was signed on 26 March 1979, the two countries agreed on establishing this center in Cairo as to foster better...
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The recording is of a radio broadcast for Dutch radio regarding Secretary-General Dr. Buṭrus Buṭrus Ghālī who speaks at the European Parliament about wanting to see more European countries getting politically involved in the United Nations. A fragment of the interview between Cornelis...
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Dayr al-Sulṭān is a monastery located on top of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, which the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox community claims to be their heritage.
The rest of the tape consists of several interviews with employees of Dutch port business, Slavenburg & Huyser B.V...
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This interview concerns the court case of four members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) who had been arrested right before the upcoming parliamentary elections in November 1995. Aḥmad al-Khawāja, Head of the Lawyer’s Syndicate, not an Islamist himself but the lawyer representing the MB...
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Liza van de Linde, a Dutch employee at a Christian owned day-care centre for disabled children in Maʿādī, discusses the living conditions of disabled children in Egypt. Van de Linde reports that there are around 2 million disabled people in Egypt, which includes the physically and...
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Maḥjūb al-Tijānī is the president of the Sudan Human Rights Organisation in the branch of Cairo and Ḥamūd Fātḥā al-Raḥman, the secretary general of the same organization, discuss the atrocities of the al-Turābī/al-Bashīr regime, and the means by which the Sudanese people are dealing...
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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.