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Date of source: Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Amnesty International (AI) has called on both the Egyptian government and political parties in Egypt to put the development of the rights of slum-dwellers - the number of which are estimated at around 12 million people - at the top of its priorities, if it wants to achieve the demands of social...
Date of source: Saturday, June 25, 2011
Last week, an Amsterdam court found Dutch politican Geert Wilders not guilty of inciting hatred against Muslims. AWR Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman argues that Wilders' inflammatory statements about Islam should not be protected by Dutch law.
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Date of source: Monday, March 28, 2011
Flyers that were recently handed out by Salafīs in Cairo described values of democracy as a violation of the law of God and proclaimed that the civil state "equates between citizens in their rights and duties, even if God has created differences in them."
Egypt’s Salafī movement is generally...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Grand Sheikh of the Azhar Ahmad al-Tayīb said no one can impose on Muslims anything that runs counter to their faith, adding the issue of homosexuality should not fall within the concepts of freedom.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The meeting of the Egyptian-European Council was the scene of a heated debate between the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Shūrá Council and the Papal Nuncio in Cairo regarding Pope Benedict's recent statements regarding the protection of Middle Eastern Christians.
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Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 2010
Heated international political controversies and events continue to associate Islam with violence and intolerance.
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 2010
Lam‘ī reports on the western inference in the Middle East region and the role of Arabs in resistance.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 4, 2010
This article describes a recent seminar in the Supreme Council for Culture concerning the impact of the Crusades on the societies of both the East and West.
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 2010
This article deals with the issue of the portrayal of the Prophet in satirical form, and Muslim reactions in the Netherlands.
Date of source: Sunday, March 14, 2010
The American Religious Freedoms Committee does not feel satisfied with the verdict issued acquitting the four Muslims accused of killing a Copt. They described the verdict as a reflection of the absence of justice in dealing with the violent sectarian incidents between Copts and Muslims which,...
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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.