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Date of source: Sunday, May 25, 2014
No one in the streets of Egypt has any doubts that former field marshal Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi will come out victorious from the May 26-27 presidential elections. The question, however, is what percentage of the electorate will go to the polls and by what margin will al-Sisi secure his victory and...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Visitors to the Monastery of St. Dimyana for the festival of St. Dimyana receive a first-hand look into the dynamics of a popular religious celebration and the lives of the nuns of the monastery.
Date of source: Sunday, May 25, 2014
No one in the streets of Egypt has any doubt about former Field Marshall Abdelfattah al-Sisi to win the presidential elections on May 26 and 27. The question, however, is what percentage of the electorate will go to the polls. The total number of votes al-Sisi will be able to obtain is also of...
Date of source: Thursday, May 22, 2014
[First published on May 17, 2014 on the website of the Institute of Middle East Studies (IMES) in Lebanon. Republished with the permission of the author and IMES in Arab-West Report]
Date of source: Thursday, May 22, 2014
Arab-West Report has had infrequent contact throughout the years with scholars of the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary (ABTS) in Beirut, who founded the Institute of Middle East Studies. Arab-West Report obtained permission to republish Arthur Brown’s “Speaking Out: Muslim Leaders Respond to the...
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Statistics about Christians in Egypt has been a problematic topic for many years.
Date of source: Thursday, May 1, 2014
On Monday April 28th, the Minya Criminal Court sentenced 683 people to death in a controversial ruling, , including Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Muhammad Badī’, and former speaker of the Peoples Assembly, Saad al-Katātnī, for charges including inciting violence, murdering a police officer, and...
Date of source: Thursday, May 1, 2014
Recently, a 35-page essay was published on Facebook by the so-called “Groups Protecting the Peaceful Egyptian Revolution.” The document, however, is not so peaceful and calls for armed resistance against the Egyptian interim-government that came to power after the deposal of former President...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Mother Theoliptie is a Chinese-Canadian Coptic Orthodox nun who has resided at St. Demiana’s Monastery for about 16 years. Her story is one of remarkable change from Buddhism to Coptic Orthodoxy. She quit her job as a pharmacist in Toronto and entered the monastery at age 27. I have met with...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Dr. Enan Galaly, having the Knight of Dannebrog title bestowed by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Ambassador of Historical Relations between Denmark and the Middle East and chairman of the Advisory Council for the International Association of University Presidents worldwide, and...
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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.