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Date of source: Wednesday, September 10, 2014
This interview was requested by Cornelis Hulsman in a personal meeting with H.E. Amr Moussa [‘Amru Mūsā], former Chairman of the 2013 Constituent Assembly, on May 18, as part of our research for our report on the 2014 Constitution. Amr Moussa agreed and the interview was to take place on July 21,...
Date of source: Monday, September 8, 2014
This interview was requested as part of our research for our report on the 2014 Constitution. Researchers Diana Serôdio and Omar Ali prepared and conducted this interview on July 20, 2014, which has been recorded and transcribed for AWR. Gamil Habib [Jamīl Habīb] spoke in Arabic, Omar Ali has...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 3, 2014
The year 2014. A very dark page in the history of the Arab region. ISIS on the rise, more than 2000 people killed in Gaza, the civil war in Syria still ongoing, the stories we hear and the pictures we see can make us doubt whether there is still hope. However, after having spent a week in Dhour...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 3, 2014
From August 17-24 the Forum for Development, Culture and Dialogue (FDCD) organized its 10th annual International Work and Study Camp under the title “Promoting Peace through Inter-religious Dialogue.” Farah de Haan from our Center for Arab-West Understanding participated and wrote about her...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Intern Aidan and Cornelis Hulsman interviewed Dr. Mahmūd ‘Azab (Mahmoud Azzab) on June 19, 2013 about the Bayt Al-‘A’ila (Bayt al-Aila), the Azhar initiated center for Muslim-Christian dialogue. Bayt Al-‘A’ila is Arabic for House of the Family, that is presenting Muslims and Christians in Egypt as...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Dr. Mahmūd ‘Azab was the Advisor of the Azhar’s Grand Imām for Dialogue Affairs and Director of the Azhar’s Center of Dialogue. He passed away on Sunday June 29, 2014, at the age of 59, due to a heart attack. He was a staunch advocate for dialogue and was outspoken about the need to renew the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 28, 2014
The extreme violence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the war between Israel and Gaza has resulted in emotional demonstrations in different countries in the West. Some of these took place in July and August in the Schilderswijk, a densely populated quarter in The Hague, The...
Date of source: Monday, August 19, 2013
A specter is haunting Egypt: the specter of social apartheid. We thought that the revolution had swept away the old barriers between the Egyptian social classes, but my experience in Ezbet Al-Hagana led me to question this assumption.
In order to examine the validity of...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 19, 2014
The Emarat Al-Insan (buildings of people) is a non-governmental Organization (NGO) that was founded in September 2005. The main founders were architect Nagwa Raouf and her daughter Maha, who are deeply motivated to use their skills to help improving the housing of the poor. The Foundation was the...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 19, 2014
The Emarat al-Insan Foundation does an extraordinary amount of good work: it helps to buy land and build homes for poor families as well as running courses at its center. We went to its main building in the Cairene district of ‘Ezbet al-Hagana, via metro, taxi and tok-tok, to eat a delicious iftār...
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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.