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Date of source: Thursday, February 6, 2020
Cornelis Hulsman and interns of the Center for Arab-West Understanding have frequently contributed to the Maadi Messenger, a community magazine that is distributed in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt. This is also where the office of Arab-West Report is located.
This time the Maadi Messenger asked Cornelis...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 24, 2020
I - Jordan:
Jordan has a unique experience when it comes to interfaith dialogue. This has to do with history and components of the Jordanian people. Christians in Jordan consider themselves to be Arab Bedouins, descendants of the Ghassanids. They were never considered as foreigners, Crusaders or...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Our students met on-line with Dr. Renee Hattar, since October 2016 the head of International Studies at the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies in Jordan, founded in 1994 by HRH Prince el-Hassan bin-Talal of Jordan. RIIFS describes itself as “a non-profit, non-governmental organization that...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 24, 2020
In evaluating the webinar Dr. Matthew Anderson appreciated the work done but said we should also address secularism. People often question religions for this and that. “Secularism is often given a free pass in these conversations as if there aren’t questions we can ask about secularism, as if there...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 24, 2020
About the demographic structure of Jordan
Date of source: Saturday, November 15, 2025
On October 30, 2025, the American University in Cairo hosted the 2025 Edward Said Memorial Lecture under the title "The Palestinians—from Orientalism to Extermination." The lecture was delivered by John Dugard, professor of international law and former United Nations Special Rapporteur to UNHCR.[1...
Date of source: Sunday, May 4, 2025
The European Alliance in Defense of Palestinian Detainees first invited Cornelis Hulsman as a speaker at their conference in international support of Palestinian prisoners and detainees on September 30 and October 1, 2023. In 2024 no physical annual conference was organized. On May 3-4, 2025, the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 4, 2025
On June 4, Studenten Internationale Betrekkingen (SIB) in Leiden, https://sibleiden.nl/, invited three former members to speak about their careers with references to their time as members of the SIB Leiden student society. One of the speakers became a diplomat, now serving at the Dutch Embassy in...
Date of source: Monday, October 13, 2025
Ramaḍān is the biggest Islamic festival of the year for Muslims all over the world, with fasting (ṣawm) being one of the five pillars of Islam. Taking place in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, Muslims are obligated to observe a period of fasting during daylight hours, in which one must...
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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.