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Date of source: Sunday, September 25, 2005
Personal recollections of Otto Meinardus.
Date of source: Thursday, November 11, 2004 to Sunday, November 14, 2004
How does one write a polemic that’s non-polemical, a manifesto that’s not manifestly so? With Christians Observed, the Revd. Dr John Watson, a priest in the Church of England and frequent contributor to Watani, has managed to answer the question.
Date of source: Thursday, November 11, 2004 to Sunday, November 14, 2004
When news of the first Coptic Symposium which convened in Zurich last September first came out, those who organised it and those who planned to take part in it all became targets of a fierce denunciation and condemnation campaign in the Egyptian media. My only comment then was that, once the...
Date of source: Monday, November 1, 2004
In 1977, Manqateen’s Coptic residents applied to the authorities concerned for a permit to build a church in the name of Anba Antonious. To date, no approval has been issued. It is outrageous that the political, local or security authorities should persist in stalling a legitimate demand—one...
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 2004
Ramadan—the holy Muslim month of fasting—is back. Unfailingly, every Ramadan for the past few years my phone has rung to carry the protest of some Copt against one or other of these dramas, which he or she maintains makes an overt or covert insult directed at Copts, Christians, or Christianity.
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 2004
Sadly one has to admit that the most prevailing phenomenon in the Arab world today is the adoption of violence and hatred as a common culture. Unlike in the 1940s and the following three decades, where Arab societies were more attracted to such values as peace, tolerance, and innovation and more...
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 2004
By listening to Muhammad Mehdi Akef, the seventh guide of the Islamist organization founded in 1928 by Hassan Al-Banna, one has a feeling of dealing with a personality that is regarded as the "pope" of Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, October 24, 2004
With its wealth of churches, the site known as Misr al-Qadima or Old Cairo is one of the richest regions in Cairo with Coptic monuments. The Coptic Heritage Lovers Society (CHLS) earlier this month held a three-day conference at the Mar Mina Church in Fomm al-Khaleeg, Old Cairo, the second such...
Date of source: Sunday, October 24, 2004
Muslims must reach out and connect with other Britons as equal citizens, and resist the impulse to withdraw into isolated communities, one of the foremost thinkers on Islam in Europe will tell his audience this evening at the European Social Forum in London.
Date of source: Sunday, October 24, 2004
Ramadan is again upon us: The Islamic holy month of fasting begins on Friday, October 15. We should all hope that U.S. forces in Iraq don’t make the same mistake with regard to it this year that they did last.
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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.