Date of source: Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Cornelis Hulsman, founding editor of Arab-West Report, and Gurjinder Khambay, second-year student in International Studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands, specializing in the Middle East, interviewed Dr. Jan Slomp, a major leader in Christian-Muslim dialogue at all levels, through Webex, on...
Date of source: Thursday, August 25, 2022
Mr. Bas Belder was between 1999 and 2019 one of the very few members in the European Parliament showing an active interest in the position of Christians in the Middle East. He is to be complimented for his genuine interest in Christians in the Middle East but the sources he used in his paper for...
Date of source: Thursday, November 16, 2023
Veteran journalist and media personality, Ibrāhīm ʿĪsā, continued to criticize Ḥamās for the justifications of its crimes when the Islamist movement killed civilians, including children, women, and elderly people. This was precedent to the deaths of numerous innocent Palestinian civilians during...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Veteran media personality, Ibrāhīm ʿĪsā, said that mainstream political Islam ideology revolves around the concepts of jihād (holy war) and martyrdom (shahāda). He highlighted that any sermon by a Salafist references historical Muslim conquerors, such as ʿUqba Ibn Nāfiʿ and Khālid Ibn al-Walīd.
Date of source: Thursday, June 8, 2023
Faraj Fūda was a renowned thinker whose books sparked large-scale controversy in the circles of intellectuals, clerics, and politicians, as well as the members of the al-Jamāʿa al-Islāmīya (The Islamic Group.)
Date of source: Thursday, June 8, 2023
Today marks a pivotal incident that occurred during the early 1990s: the assassination of writer Faraj Fūda by extremists in Cairo. The first episode of the sad tale begins with Fūda attending a debate of the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) on January 7, 1992 under the title ‘Egypt: Between a...
Date of source: Thursday, October 13, 2022
In their third collaboration, L’Harmattan will publish a new book on the Muslim Brotherhood by Egyptian author ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ʿAlī in 2023.
Date of source: Sunday, September 11, 2022
Prof. Dr. Hassan Wagieh [Ḥassan Wajīh] is a Professor Emeritus, Linguistics Department, Faculty of Languages, at the prestigious Azhar University in Egypt. Prof. Wajīh is a long-time friend of Cornelis Hulsman, editor-in-chief of Arab-West Report/Dialogue Across Borders. In April 2022 Hulsman...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Between June 6 and 13 a group of students of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at Aachen University, Germany, visited Egypt, obtaining support from the Centre for Arab-West Understanding in organizing their program in Egypt that was entirely focused on the role of religion in Egyptian society,...
Date of source: Thursday, August 18, 2022
Dr. Muḥammad Mukhtār Jumʿa, Minister of Awqāf, congratulated Shaykh Jābir Ṭāyiʿ Yūsif Sulṭān, former head of the religious sector at the Ministry of Awqāf, on obtaining a PhD from the Faculty of Arts, Minūfiya University, for a thesis entitled, “Egypt’s Ministry of Awqāf Efforts in spreading...