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Date of source: Saturday, September 26, 2020
Anglican Archbishop Mouneer proposed the title Comparing inclusive Citizenship in Egypt with Europe. The comparison with Europe was important to the Archbishop since it is not all rosy in Europe, yet Mr.Belder chose to focus on Egypt alone.
Mr.Bas Belder is a former journalist for the...
Date of source: Friday, July 27, 2018
My name is Eya Bouchech [Āya Būshish], I am a 20 years old and I am Tunisian. At this moment, I am having a mind full of thoughts, tears on my cheeks and a smile. I was praying asking God to show me the right way, and thanking Him for everything, for His plans, all the love He gave to all of us,...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Nour Saad is Egyptian, a former student at the DEO, studies political science and sociology in Germany, and interned between March 1 and April 2, 2020, with the Center for Arab-West Understanding where she wrote a report about the cooperative religious education at the German Evangelical...
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: Monday, March 20, 2023
The matter of changing the religion of a child has been brought to the forefront of public discourse in Egypt, following the conversion of a child’s religion from Christian to Muslim. The boy was raised by Coptic parents after having been found outside a church in Cairo, however was later taken...
Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2023
The Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, welcomed a delegation of French intellectuals and journalists to discuss the issue of extremism. Dr. al-Ṭayyīb confirmed that al-Azhar aimed to spread the values of fraternity, co-existence and solidarity, and that Islam had nothing to do with the...
Date of source: Thursday, March 2, 2023
Following six years of work, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has launched the “Map of Religious Freedoms” that will serve as a reference for all matters relating to freedom of religion and belief, and violations of this right. The information from the interactive map covers the time...
Date of source: Sunday, February 12, 2023
Sinai University has summoned Maī ʿAbdullah, a dentistry student in the first grade, to be investigaed on charges of contempt of religion, after she has been accused of insulting the prophet Muḥammad, and mocking the ḥijāb and heaven, as well as adherents of Islam. The dean of the faculty of...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Sūlāf Darwīsh, the Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives’ Manpower Committee, has praised comments made by the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, about the misuse of the term ‘freedoms’ by the West. Dr. al-Ṭayyīb had stated that the world was in need of religion to help solve...
Date of source: Friday, June 12, 2015
In Morocco, Islam is the state religion, however the Moroccan constitution provides for freedom of belief and religious practice. Despite the long-standing spirit of co-existence present between the adherents of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, Moroccan authorities from time to time prevent...
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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.