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Date of source: Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Dutch Arabist Eildert Mulder refers to a text in Deuteronomy 22:20-21 in relation to a tragic example of honor killing in the occupied Palestinian area. The text in Deuteronomy is part of the laws on sexual relations. The relevant section reads:
“13 Suppose a man marries a woman, but after going in...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Dr. P.B. Dirksen is very pleased with the translation of Cornelis Hulsman’s 1982 booklet Oz Ve-Shalom, an Orthodox Jewish Peace movement in the 1980's which, he writes, comes at the right time. After forty years the text has lost none of its significance and is completely relevant to the current...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Recommendation letter for the Center for Arab-West Understanding
Between 1963 and 1977 I was teaching Old Testament at the Coptic Evangelical seminary in Abbasiyya, Cairo, during which period I lived with my family in Heliopolis. This period has left me ever since with a deep sense of involvement...
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.