Date of source: Thursday, June 19, 2008
A number of articles in this issue discuss the increase in Christian emigration rom the Arab world. Further articles discuss the contentious issue of the hijāb and niqāb in the schools and workplace.
Date of source: Saturday, June 7, 2008
The recent increase in religious satellite channels in the Middle East has led some critics to suggest that they have strayed from their original purpose of educating people about religion and become money-spinning centers for fundamentalist thought.
Date of source: Sunday, June 15, 2008
This issue covers a number of topics dealing again with the freedom of expression. Pope Shenouda discusses the need for Arab unity to address the tensions in the Middle East, and Max Michel publishes a book critiquing the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Increasing political participation of religious groups is a subject being raised more frequently. This issue presents a number of articles that address this topic, and comment on the role of these groups play in politics, namely how their religious influences shape and mold their political...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 3, 2008
The importance of translation and its impact on expanding knowledge and building inter-cultural bridges is focused on, as well as the upcoming launch of the Electronic Network for Arab West Understanding.
Date of source: Thursday, May 29, 2008
Debates surface following the publication of a document regarding the freedom of expression in the Arab world by the Arab League. This issue also focuses on the future of political life in Egypt, and the difficulties that may arise.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Drs. Hulsman discusses a number of articles that deal with a recent European Parliamentary resolution, highlighting the condition of human rights in Egypt, and the subsequent media uproar that followed in the Egyptian press. He further points to a number of articles that refer to the condition of...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Drs. Hulsman points to the issues of conversion, and the negative sentiments that are stirred when these sensitive issues are discussed publicly and by means of the media.
Date of source: Monday, March 17, 2008
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman comments on three interesting articles in this edition of AWR by Hānī Labīb about Muslim-Christian relations and points to two interviews with Pope Shenouda in this issue that again raise the question of who will succeed the current patriarch.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Kees Hulsman prepared a paper on the need for self-criticism of Christians in dealing with Muslim-Christian relations.
Comments on the mentality in Egyptian society resulting in a lack of trust.
Nabīl ‘Abd al-FattāḤ writes that since the early 1970s, scarcely a year passes without sectarian...