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Date of source: Wednesday, November 11, 2020
It was a ten-day walk from the village of Erra in Eritrea to Sudan. Aman and Meron, are two students at the CAWU Learning center in Cairo. They left their family behind at age 14 and 17. Annually tens of thousands of Eritreans leave the country to escape the harsh compulsory military service. Just...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Mr. Nabil Youssef [Nabīl Yūsuf], office director of the Cairo Foreign Press Association, asked Cornelis Hulsman to announce the death of FPA chairman Volkhard Windfuhr to the FPA members. Hulsman has been an FPA board member between 1995 and 2009 and served as its general secretary between 2003 and...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2018
German organization Misereor decided not to continue support for the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation (CIDT) after 1 July 2019 for reasons of policy change. CIDT has been supporting the Center for Arab-West Understanding in turn.
Misereor has been good for around 35% of their...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 19, 2016
We discovered some nasty exchanges on Facebook between Ra’ed el-Sharqawi and others who wrongly believe Ra’ed el-Sharqawi is representing the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation (CIDT) and the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU).The boards of both organizations felt the need...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 8, 2016
On February 11, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) board of directors issued a warning not to travel to Egypt for study and/or research. Our Center for Arab-West Understanding disagrees. The brutal murder of Italian PhD student Giulio Regeni is a great tragedy, first of all for his family,...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Notes on the occasion of Prof. Mike Reimer's 60th birthday, assistant professor of history at the American University in Cairo. Muslim-Christian relations are so much more complex as media tend to report.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 1, 2014
AWR: On June 29, our friend Dr. Mahmūd ‘Azab (Mahmoud Azzab) suddenly passed away. He meant a lot to Arab-West Report. Intern Alastair White translated this article about him.
Date of source: Monday, June 30, 2014
Arab-West Report, of course, wants to be quoted. German researcher Matthias Gillé has indeed done so, and has made extensively use of AWR sources for his 202-page thesis titled, “Der koptische Papst Shenouda III. Beobachtungen zu Theologie und Biografie.” He referred nine times to Hulsman in the...
Date of source: Saturday, July 19, 2014
We are grateful for the blog space Egypt Today is providing Arab-West Report, an electronic magazine and database founded in 1997 to foster understanding between people of different cultures and convictions. We believe in pluralism, which means that we have to accept that people, both individuals...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 15, 2014
When interviewing the most crucial thing is to have a well-prepared interview guide that allows the interviewer to control and direct the interview in the most beneficial way possible for the research as a whole. Our focus will be on interview guides used for semi-structured interviews.
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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.