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Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
A conference
recently held in Malaysia attended by fifty intellectuals discussed the
knowledge gap between the West and the
Muslim world and recommends thorough modernization.
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2006 to Friday, April 28, 2006
Dr. ‘Imād Siyām argues that the educational institution is responsible for forming the mind and conscience of the umma (nation). He further establishes that political Islamists have successfully infiltrated the Egyptian educational system, propagating Salafī ideas among young Egyptians.
Date of source: Monday, March 13, 2006
Father Youhannā Nasīf from Alexandria tackles the expansion of the number of Coptic schools in Egypt. He suggests building new Coptic schools to eliminate fanatical ideologies and to increase acceptance of ‘the other’.
Date of source: Saturday, December 31, 2005
Dr. Wolfram Reiss discusses the obstacles and opportunities identified by a German project and accompanying international dialogue on the revision of school textbooks in the Middle East, in terms of their treatment of Christianity.
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2006
An article about the Muslim Brotherhood’s intent to establish a state that has a religious, and not civil nature, and the attitude of the Muslim Brotherhood towards the Copts.
Date of source: Monday, March 6, 2006
Dr. Muhammad Sa‘d Ibrāhīm responds to an article published in al-Fajr by Dr. Sa‘īd Sallām, head of the Pediatrics Department at the Faculty of Medicine, al-Minyā University about the alleged persecution of a Coptic researcher in the faculty.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
The sessions of the Saudi conference “Extremism and moderation," organized by the King Abdel Aziz Center for National Dialogue, witnessed heated discussions that reflected the completely different views of the participants especially on the issue of the Saudi educational curricula. The research...
Date of source: Saturday, December 27, 2003
Arguing that music contravenes Islam, a Kuwaiti Islamist MP demanded that music education be banned in all public schools. The Kuwaiti MP proposed substituting Islamic education for music lessons.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
The Kuwaiti National Assembly witnessed a very heated debate over educational strategy and reform of school curricula. The 14-member Islamic parliamentary bloc stressed that it will use its constitutional tools against the Minister of Education in case he was influenced by claims that the current...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Members of the Kuwaiti National Council warned the Minister of Education Rashid Al-Hamad against making any change in the curricula of Islamic education. They demanded that curricula upgrades be limited to scientific subjects in order to cope with the developments of the age and the requirements of...
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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.