Date of source: Monday, January 12, 2004
The author stresses the importance of dialogue between civilizations and cultures,
believing it is a top priority in today’s world. He argues that no one civilization can have
privilege and the world cannot become a single community in which all civilizations and cultures
melt in the cast of a...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 3, 2004
The article is the second part of an
overview of a study made by two Saudi researchers in order to introduce it in the second National
Dialogue Forum held in Riyadh a couple of weeks ago. According to the study and its authors, the
religious curricula in Saudi Arabia exaggerate in accusing other...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 3, 2004
The article explains that Western Jewish media managed to tarnish the image of Islam
and Muslims. Muslims are presented in Western media as terrorists by nature and creed and Islam
is described Islam as the West’s new enemy. The author raises the question: How can we correct
the image of Islam...
Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2005
In a final statement at the end of the first round of dialogue between the International Islamic Forum for Dialogue
(IIFD), ulamā’, and Middle Eastern priests, they all concurred to having the interfaith and intercultural dialogue a
religious duty incumbent on the followers of both religions.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 8, 2005
The Christian-Muslim Dialogue Group from Austria visited Egypt with the desire to discover a new context for Muslim-Christian relations that might inspire their own practice of Christian-Muslim dialogue in Europe. The group experienced dialogue at very different levels, from religious leaders and...
Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2005
In this interview, the Secretary General of the
Orgnization of the Islamic conference, speaks about his personal life, his position, how he was chosen as secretary general,
and the Islamic role of his institution.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Minister of Endowments: Islam was the first to establish dialogue and to accept “the other”
In his meeting with Gerhard Duncker, the representative of the German Evangelical Church, Dr. Zaqzouq affirmed that today’s world is in dire need of collective efforts to bridge the gap resulting from...
Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2005
The first Muslim-Christian dialogue sponsored by the Azhar and the Coptic Church
On March 15, the Grand Imam of the Azhar, shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī and Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark will commence the first conference on Muslim-Christian dialogue. The...
Date of source: Saturday, February 26, 2005 to Friday, March 4, 2005
The Islamist writer Mr. Fahmī Huwaydī, known as “the enlightened,” is very upset about the Islamic conferences held nowadays, because they are discussing the same points every time regarding Islam’s view of extremism, the truth about the misjudged Jihād, and Islam’s protection of human rights,...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2005
The Watanī Salon has invited a group of intellectuals and public activists to talk about a recent initiative called the Egyptian council for citizenship rights. Yousuf Sīdhum, the Editor-in-Chief of the Watanī newspaper, the mouthpiece of Egypt’s Copts was the first to suggest this idea.