Date of source: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Angry reactions to Pope
Benedict’s remarks on Islam and the Prophet
Muhammad continued for a second week. Some Muslim figures,
including Iranian President Ahmadinejad and
Malaysian Prime Minister ‘Abd Allāh Ahmad
Badawī, have accepted the pope’s regret at the
furious reactions to his remarks...
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2006
The review deals with varied opinions about Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks
considered offensive in Muslim and
Arab countries amidst calls to expel the papal nuncio in Egypt and put the
interfaith dialogue with the
Vatican on the back burner.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 14, 2006
A group of prominent experts from different academic backgrounds and ideological orientations, both Muslim and Christian, discussed whom the Regensburg lecture was really aiming at and how the current crisis could be constructively faced. They called for a reconsideration of the basis on which...
Date of source: Friday, September 29, 2006
The statements of the pope about Islam confirm “many often heard prejudices about Islam” says Prof. Wagīh, who is a member of the Higher Islamic Council of Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, November 2, 2006
This text was the author’s contribution to the round table discussion on the lecture of Pope Benedict XVI, held by the Program for Dialogue of Civilizations (PDC) at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University, November 2, 2006.
Date of source: Sunday, August 6, 2006
The author reflects on the life and experiences of Michael Fitzgerald, the new Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt and the Roman Catholic delegate to the League of Arab States and the significant future contributions he can make to Christian-Muslim dialogue.
Date of source: Saturday, October 7, 2006
Arab-West Report Editor in-Chief, Cornelis Hulsman, asked Archbishop Fitzgerald, the Catholic nuntius in Egypt, about the statements of Pope Benedict on Islām. Archbishop Fitzgerald speaks Arabic, knows the Islamic world well and plays Qur’ān important role in Muslim-Christian dialogue. The...
Date of source: Saturday, September 30, 2006
Drs Hulsman analyses the lecture of Pope Benedict, noting that the text showed that his lecture was unfortunate but the translation made it even worse. The report notes several translation mistakes from the original German text to English. The Arabic texts were then translations of the English....
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Responses on AWR’s special report about Pope Benedict’s lecture.
Recommendation of an interesting article about Islamophobia online.
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2006
The review takes up varied opinion
articles in the Egyptian and Arab press about the statements of Pope Benedict XVI of the Roman Catholic
Church in
which he purportedly attacked Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in a lecture he gave in a German
university.