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Date of source: 31 Dec 2003
What does the West want from Islam and Muslims? America and its allies are fabricating false accusations against Muslims and attributing all kind of defects to them untruthfully. What is the explanation for this fierce attack America launches against Arabs and Muslims?
Is it because America fears...
Date of source: 31 Dec 2003
Since the beginning of the 18th century, the West has reacted to the Arab World through the concept of Orientalism. This concept divides the world into two unequal parts: the East, made up of the Arab countries, and the West, made up of Europe and the U.S. The West always thinks that the East has...
Date of source: 30 Dec 2003
Some economists have discussed the influence of religion on economics. They say that the weak economy of the Muslim [countries] is due to their religion.
But the economist Marcos Noland of the International Institution for Economics in Washington says that Islam encourages development. Many people...
Date of source: 31 Dec 2003
Al-Muhajeroun [the immigrants], the most important Fundamentalist movement in Britain, will hold a number of Islamic conferences in the beginning of the year 2004.
The leader of the movement, Omar Bakri, stated to Asharq Al-Awast that the new conference entitled "In Confrontation with Former...
Date of source: 30 Dec 2003
The author comments on the speech given by a retired Israeli Mossad officer called Avi Lipkin, who gave many lectures in Switzerland and many other European countries under the auspices of a suspicious Christian organization called "The Friends of Israel." He started his latest lecture, which he...
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Date of source: 30 Dec 2003
The International Zionist Agency [I did not find an organization with this name on the internet. See: http://www.bermangroup.com/diaspora/intlorg.htm] warns the Jews in the world in general, and the Jews in Europe in particular, against having relations with Muslims, even if those Muslims are...
Date of source: 30 Dec 2003
"New Israel," this is the slogan Jews raise today, not only outside Israel but inside it as well. Avraham Burg, former speaker of the Israeli Knesset and one of the most well-known leaders of the Israeli leftist [Labor] party, surprised everyone with his anti-Israel statements.
Burg accused Israel...
Date of source: 25 Dec 2003
It seems that the Minister of Culture, Farouq Hosni, is not content with the many mulids (celebrations of the birth of holy men) and historical tombs in Egypt he already has, so once again he has asked that the tomb of the Jewish Rabbi Yaqoub Abu Hasera be considered a historical monument.
If the...
Date of source: 29 Dec 2003
Yesterday the Jewish community stopped the inspectors of the Authority of Antiquities from going into the Synagogue of Prophet Daniel [in Alexandria]. For the first time since the synagogue was categorized as a historical building the inspectors who wanted to carry out the periodic inspection of...
Date of source: 31 Dec 2003
The Egyptian Minister of Culture decided that Egypt will contribute a huge stone of Assuan granite to the monument for the Unknown Child in The Netherlands. His decision was followed by the visit of Mirjam and Sil van Oort, two representatives of the Rose Foundation, between December 7 and 17 2003...
Reviewed by Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Translator Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Date of source: 31 Dec 2003
In 2003 three books have appeared we would like to draw your attention to.
1) "Upper Egypt, Life along the Nile," Moesgard Museum, Denmark, 173 pp with photos, ISBN 87-87334-52-6. Edited by Dr. Nicolas Hopkins, professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Hopkins asked...
Reviewed by Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Translator Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Date of source: 25 Dec 2003
In the second article about fasting, Father Marcos stresses the importance of abstaining from pronouncing bad words during fasting: "Do not say that you are fasting truly while your tongue is not fasting [abstaining from pronouncing bad words]". Citing many verses from the Holy Bible and sayings of...
Date of source: 30 Dec 2003
In the occasion of the Egyptian churches’ celebrations of the new year Christian leaderships [in Egypt] expressed its good wishes for the Egyptian people and the Arab world hoping that peace and prosperity would prevail in the new year.
Date of source: 25 Dec 2003
Muslims started to arrive in the United States in the late 1800s when young people, most of whom were from the Middle East, emigrated to US with the aim of making money.
Muslim emigrants started to group in order to maintain their identity. Each group of Muslim emigrants established a mosque in the...
Date of source: 30 Dec 2003
The Egyptian cultural scene during 2003 was more like a farce. Dozens of conferences on art, cinema, drama, and music were held. But all of them were useless, for they did not discuss the real issues. Many creative intellectuals attacked and criticized these conferences, even before they were held...
Date of source: 3 May 2006
Arab-West Report is pleased to have a letter of recommendation from Mr. Herman van Veen, Dutch musician and entertainer. AWR also contains discussions about the spread of rumors, particularly after a rumor about the Nile being contaminated by the H5N1 bird flu virus led to panic buying of bottled...
Date of source: 7 Mar 2006
Dear Mr. Hulsman,I greatly appreciate the tremendous amount of work that your center has done to coordinate the effort to obtain an Egyptian stone for the Monument for the Tomb of the Unknown Child. You have helped so much in making the necessary links to the Dutch Embassy in Cairo, the Egyptian...
Date of source: 1 Mar 2006
Māhir Jābir states that every time there is a problem or disaster, young people are always blamed, and accused of being so negative. But he says that Egyptians witnessed something different when they hosted the African nation’s cup and when Danish papers published cartoons insulting the Prophet...
Date of source: 3 Mar 2006
The author reports that North Cairo Civil Court of First Instance overturned a complaint filed by six lawyers against the prime minister, Dr. Ahmad Nazīf, and the grand imām of the Azhar, demanding their intervention to stop websites of religious extremism and establishing centers to monitor them....
Date of source: 3 Mar 2006
In an interview with al-Wafd, Austrian Margarete Mackrete [Review: Name not verified] expresses her great happiness and satisfaction with her conversion to Islam.Asked about her story, Margarete says that she got married to an Egyptian Muslim, Sharīf [Reviewer: No date mentioned], and she bore him...
Date of source: 3 Mar 2006
The Arab Medical Syndicate hosted a debate about reaching an agreement to protect religions. Ahmad Imbābī states that a lot of disagreements took place among the gathering and as a result, they failed to agree on specific items and terminology for the covenant, including what is meant by the...
Date of source: 3 Mar 2006
Protests have spread across the Arab and Muslim worlds over the publication in Europe of 12 controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, considered by Muslims to be offensive to Islam.Egyptian Muslim scholars, led by the grand imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, have called on the...
Date of source: 3 Mar 2006
The article reports on a modern Islamic study that demands prosecuting and punishing the caricaturists who offend the Prophet Muhammad, because it is an intentional action. Judge Hussnī Mansour, deputy head of the Court of Cassation and an Islamic writer, prepared this study under the title “To...
Date of source: 4 Mar 2006
Zayn al-‘Abidīn al-Rikābī says that once the issue of the sacredness of freedom came to the surface in Europe, a number of incidents took place to prove that the freedom of expression in Europe is not as absolute as it is claimed.The first incident is the sentencing of British historian David...
Date of source: 2 Mar 2006
The article reports on a meeting hosted by Qatar and headed by Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general. In this meeting, Annan called upon the whole world to respect other cultures and religions in order to contain the crisis of the offensive caricatures portraying the Prophet Muhammad. At the end of...
Date of source: 4 Mar 2006
Under a headline reading, “The thin line between press freedom and society’s rights” in al-Ahrām of March 4, 2006, Ahmad Farghalī writes that the Egyptian draft law canceling the imprisonment sentence for journalists in publishing related cases should be carefully considered, to achieve a good...
Date of source: 5 Mar 2006
William al-Mīrrī states that journalists face a lot of dangers nowadays in the world. In Iraq, terrorists kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll and injured some other journalistsIn Egypt journalist Ridā Hilāl of al-Ahrām disappeared in mysterious circumstances.Lebanese journalists Samīr...
Date of source: 5 Mar 2006
Tāriq Ramadān states that when talking about the Danish cartoons that have been published in some European papers, three things must be taken into consideration.First, insulting any prophet, not just Muhammad, is in violation with Islamic principals. Secondly, the Islamic world is not familiar with...
Date of source: 5 Mar 2006
According to Dr. Jābir Nassār, a professor at Cairo University, issuing a decree preventing the detention of journalists is a necessity for the whole of society. He also calls for a really effective judiciary and a journalistic code of ethics, which would guide journalists in their workFreedom of...
Date of source: 6 Mar 2006
According to ‘Ulā ‘Ādil, Egyptians are suffering from the lack of all aspects of freedom. Cases of the Islamization of a number of Coptic girls is a clear example of that.Muhammad Sa‘d al-Dīn is considered to be one of those lawyers who have helped many Coptic girls to convert to Islam. He said...
Date of source: 6 Mar 2006
The author speaks about what he calls a scandal in Cairo University. The victim of this scandal is ‘Alī Mabrouk, an instructor at the faculty of arts of Cairo University. He graduated in 1980 from the Faculty of Arts, philosophy department. He obtained his master’s degree in a thesis on “Prophecy...
Date of source: 5 Mar 2006
The source of international crises has always been highly diverse and often ridiculous: the abduction of a woman, a snub, a slap with a fan, a telegram have been enough, in the past, to light the powder. Our age, which quite wrongly believed it had seen the triumph of reason, is amazed to see...
Date of source: 5 Mar 2006
Respect is not a right. Almost anything one can think of these days is, supposedly, a right, and judging from the angry demands on all sides for respect, one might easily be bamboozled into thinking respect is somehow a right as well. Not so, rightly not.Yet all the terrifying Muslim uprisings...
Date of source: 5 Mar 2006
[Editor: The author makes some bleak and unsupported claims about aspects of non-Western societies, particularly with Muslim references. No doubt excesses exist, but it is definitely wrong to charactarize entire societies with these sweeping generalizations. Ibn Warraq left Islam and advocates...
Date of source: 2 Mar 2006
Two Egyptian Muslim religious figures, ‘Amr Khālid and Shaykh Dr. Yousuf al-Qaradāwī, have differed on whether it is the right time to embark upon dialogue with Denmark over the "offensive" cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.Shaykh al-Qaradāwī directs the Research Center of Sunna and Biography of the...
Date of source: 3 Mar 2006
Researcher Sayyid Ibrāhīm Sayyid got his master’s degree from the Faculty of Arabic Language, at the Azhar University [http://www.alazhar.org/]. His master’s thesis, “The Literary Stamp of al-Qaradāwī’s Discourse,” focuses on the role of discourse in reaching the target audience and influencing...
Date of source: 3 Mar 2006
A German court has convicted a businessman [Reviewer: No name given] for insulting Islam by writing the word “Qur’ān” on toilet paper and sending it to mosques and Islamic institutions. The man has received a suspended jail sentence of one year from the German criminal court. The court has issued...
Date of source: 3 Mar 2006
The author says that Muhammad Ahmad Muhammad Ibrahīm Shihāta, a researcher in the faculty of Languages and Translation at the Azhar University, has obtained his master’s degree in a research on the image of Islam in [Christian] missionary literature from 1850 to 1950. The first chapter of the...
Date of source: 1 Mar 2006
Muhammad Salmāwī says that the Islamic world should think about what remains from the caricatures’ crisis, and ponders whether it was merely an emotional outburst that leaves behind nothing. He explains that Muslim masses are capable of nothing except expressing their feelings, while governments...
Date of source: 5 Mar 2006
[Editor: The last paragraph approves “protest and rages by all possible means.” This is an indirect praise for the burning of embassies and the killing of those whose views are different from one’s own.]The author starts his article addressing the Prophet Muhammad, asking him not to grieve over the...
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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.