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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...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
This paper examines the impact of various civil society organizations in Egypt on intercommunal and interreligious relations in the country. The analysis builds upon a brief overview of the status and role of civil society in Egypt, which considers the complex historical legacy of intercommunal and...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 7, 2025
In June 2025, I was able to gain valuable insight into the current situation in Syria after the fall of the Assad government by spending almost two weeks travelling and doing field research in the cities of Damascus, Maʿlūlā, Ṣaydnāyā, Aleppo, al-Raqqa, al-Qāmishlī, and al-Ḥasakah. With its rich...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
From May 21 to 25, Cornelis Hulsman, initiator and founder of the Center for Arab-West Understanding; Luka Renić, DAB editor and CAWU internship coordinator; and CAWU interns Jacob Snow and Ruben van der Vlag conducted a field trip to the Sūhāg Governorate of Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
An important part of data collection for Arab-West Report/Dialogue Across Borders was through regular visits Cornelis Hulsman, founding director of CIDT (2005-2022), organized to different parts of Egypt, mostly with student interns he supervised. Through this method, education and database...
Date of source: Thursday, July 3, 2025
With Freedom of Expression and Opinion we cannot avoid the spread of harmful misinformation and disinformation. We believe that the method of the Dialogue Across Borders database can form the basis to address misinformation and disinformation systematically. The side session in which I presented by...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Last week, our interns came together for a field trip around Old Cairo, led by Luka Renić, our internship coordinator. To set us up for a long, hot day of walking, we began by fueling ourselves with a traditional (baladi) street breakfast in the ʿĀbdīn neighborhood of Downtown Cairo. Eating fūl (...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 2, 2025
On Wednesday, Archbishop Dr. Sāmī Fawzī, Archbishop of the Province of Alexandria of the Anglican Episcopal Church, paid a fraternal visit to His Grace Bishop Makāriyūs, Bishop of Minya for the Coptic Orthodox Church. The visit reflected a spirit of love, cooperation, and mutual respect between the...
Date of source: Thursday, May 8, 2025
A dialogue can be and should be in the first place a source of pleasure. If conducted in a pleasant atmosphere it can be very useful and lead to surprising results.
The Anna Lindh Foundation’s objective to stimulate dialogue between people from the MENA area and Europe is both excellent and much...
Date of source: Friday, April 25, 2025
(The full text is presented here for the friends and family of Professor Abdallah Schleifer and our readers.)
On March 27th, our longtime friend and passionate supporter of intercultural and interreligious dialogue, Abdallah Schleifer, Senior Fellow at the Arab-West Foundation, passed away in...
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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.