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Date of source: 15 Jan 2004
This issue goes out on January 15 while it concerns the week of December 16-23. There are several good reasons for this. AWR is still understaffed and is trying to find a qualified fourth translator in the office as well as a full-time editor. Our first concern is with quality. Much effort goes...
Date of source: 16 Dec 2003
[Editor: It is fine the author wants to defend Islamic principles and opposes an Americanization of his culture but he should have refrained from making references to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a early 20th century forgery that has been used a lot in anti-Semitic propaganda. See the...
Date of source: 21 Dec 2003
When some congressmen demanded that $1 million of American aid be allocated to the Ibn Khaldoun Center, they were either aiming at sowing discord between this center and people who deal with it or they wanted to prove that the center functions under their protection and thus deserves their support...
Date of source: 22 Dec 2003
Counselor Hisham Al-Darendaly, chief prosecutor at the Cairo Court of Appeals, today begins hearing the testimony of Mustafa Bakry in the complaint he has filed against Saad Eddin Ibrahim.
Bakry filed a complaint to the General Prosecutor Counselor Maher Abdel Wahid in which he accused Saad Eddin...
Date of source: 16 Dec 2003
The Islamic nation has never suffered from a catastrophe more serious than [the catastrophe of] the game of fatwas. These fatwas on the one hand permit killing and destruction and then they turn to the opposite [direction] to advocate tolerance and moderation, after an interval of making apologies...
Date of source: 17 Dec 2003
We continue our reading in the book of "Al-Ekhwan Al-Muslimun…Ahdath Sanaat
Tarikh" [The Muslim Brotherhood… Events that Made History] by Mahmoud Abdel Haleem, the accredited historian of the Muslim Brotherhood group.
Abdel Haleem devoted the third volume of his book to settle accounts with the...
Date of source: 23 Dec 2003
Subtitles:
* The renewal of religious discourse is a natural development of the ijtihad of Azharite scholars in the nineteenth century.
* The statements of Hassan Al-Banna on the relationship between religion and the state are not new but their aim was to stand up to attempts at Westernization...
Date of source: 16 Dec 2003
Religious programs got out of a bottleneck [programs of state-owned channels have been putting restrains on religious material that had been presented to them] when satellite TV channels appeared on the scene. These satellite channels freed broadcasters of religious programs from the unfair...
Date of source: 11 Dec 2003
A good dialogue within the society should be a productive one, meaning that it should not be an ideological debate in which each party seeks to defend his point of view correctly or incorrectly. This dialogue should also not separate parties involved from each other but it should involve attempts...
Date of source: 23 Dec 2003
Al-Wafd made this interview with the Grand Mufti Dr. Ali Goma’a covering many subjects such as the concept of legitimate war in Islam, martyrdom operations, the Iraqi Ruling Council, the Iraqi resistance [against American occupation], emergency laws and the relationship between religion and...
Date of source: 22 Dec 2003
The article reports about a seminar, one of whose speakers was Dr. Nasr Abu Zeid. The seminar was held as part of the activities of the Philosophical Association’ conference, entitled "Criticism in Philosophy and Social Ideology." Philosophy professors at universities of Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria,...
Date of source: 23 Dec 2003
Youssef Al-Sharouni was happy when he discovered that the British researcher Kit Victoria McDonald Daniels [the name is a transliteration from the Arabic, could not be found on the internet] had chosen his stories to be the subject of her PhD thesis for the University of London. Yet Al-Sharouni...
Date of source: 23 Dec 2003
The article is a letter sent to Al-Akhbar by Dr. Sherif Dous [a Copt]. Dous speaks about the strong relationship between Copts and Muslims in Egypt. He says that in spite of this strong relationship some periods of Egypt history witnessed frictions or even conflicts between Muslims and Copts but...
Date of source: 23 Dec 2003
[Dr. Wolfram Reiss is a member of the Research Project on Textbooks of the Middle East (Egypt-Palestine-Turkey-Iran). His article is in response to Dr. Muhammed Selim al-‘Awa’s article in al-Usbua on Islamic religious education, AWR, 2003, week 50, art. 24]
Dr. Muhammad Selim el-’Awa probably...
Date of source: 21 Dec 2003
Last Monday, the activities of the conference "Islam and the West in a Changing World" were concluded in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. The conference aimed at presenting an Islamic view of the relationship with the West under the slogan "Interaction without melting and distinction without...
Date of source: 17 Dec 2003
Out of the six billion who make up the population of the whole world, one and a half billion are Muslim. This means that Muslims form one fourth of the world population. The highest rates of proliferation and percentage of fertility are found among Muslims, which cause their number to increase....
Date of source: 23 Dec 2003
Would the French thinker Voltaire have agreed with the cover chosen by the French publishing house Freire Geist for his unknown play entitled "Fanaticism...Some people call it Muhammad," which he wrote in 1741? In this play, Voltaire went the distance in tarnishing the image of Islam. The...
Date of source: 20 Dec 2003 to 26 Dec 2003
Swiss authorities did not take any actions against terrorist organization in Switzerland except after it lost two Swiss citizens in the events of September 11.
The extensive investigations, which started directly after September 11 and was completed some days ago, unexpectedly revealed that the...
Date of source: 23 Dec 2003
The Church is witnessing some secret moves to pass a new regulation for papal elections. Informed sources close to the Church say that the modifications in the new regulation will tighten the grip of certain people [over the church] and will bring one of them to the papacy. The most important of...
Date of source: 23 Dec 2003
Qena Criminal Court is hearing the case of an archeological dispute between the Supreme Council of Antiquities and Father Sarabamoun, the abbot of Al-Fakhouri Monastery and the secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Metropolitan of Esna. Father Sarabamoun is accused of damaging the archeological features...
Date of source: 18 Dec 2003
The eighth general assembly of the Middle East Council of Churches represents the beginning of a new stage in the history of the council which comprises the churches of Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Greece, Jordan, Palestine, the Arab Gulf and north Africa.
All members of the general...
Date of source: 22 Dec 2003
The Coptic Church is fasting nowadays--the fasting of the nativity, which precedes [Coptic] Christmas and lasts for forty-three days.
Archpriest Marcos Aziz Khalil argues that the kind of fasting the Coptic Church observes, which involves abstention from food and drink for a certain period of the...
Date of source: 19 Dec 2003
The author discusses the relation between life and religion. He argues that a religion’s potentially for survival throughout time lies in its ability to deal with life, "which is one of the characteristic of international religions such as Islam."
The need of religions to renew themselves is a...
Date of source: 12 Dec 2003
There is a majority of Muslims in the Arab world, besides which there are other religious groups, the most important of which is the Christian group. The number of non-Muslims in the Arab world is approximately 17.7 millions (not including Israelis), i.e. 8% of the population of the Arab world....
Date of source: 18 Dec 2003
5-The Presbyterian Church
The creation of the Presbyterian Church in the United Church took place in 1706 as a result of the emigration of Dutch Presbyterians to America. The Presbyterian church follows the teachings of the Swiss reformist John Calvin who rejected priesthood, believing it to be a...
Date of source: 23 Jan 2003
AWR is much delayed. Our dedicated translator Nirmeen Fawzy, who has served AWR/ RNSAW, for almost four years, has left our office. That is certainly a big blow for AWR. Nirmeen ran the office alone for almost three years, supported by a team of free-lance translators around her. The year 2003...
Date of source: 25 Dec 2003 to 31 Dec 2003
In 2000, Egypt launched a major tourist initiative to remind people throughout the world of one of the major events of biblical history: the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt. The program encourages travelers to retrace the steps of Jesus Christ with his mother, the Virgin Mary, and Joseph into...
Date of source: 31 Dec 2003
[We are closing the year 2003 with the text of this lecture. We have added references to earlier publications in RNSAW/AWR. This text could not be presented earlier because AWR is seriously understaffed. The lecture on October 20 at the College of Languages and Translation of the Azhar University...
Date of source: 31 Dec 2003
Mr. Hulsman’s presentation about Arab-West Report was followed by a recorded discussion with university staff and students.
Dr. Rasha Desouqi, lecturer English literature:
Thank you Mr. Hulsman very much.
I am sure that every one here is sympathetic with what has been said. Thank you for wishing...
Date of source: 30 Dec 2003
The author starts his article by speaking about the growing importance of civil society in Egypt, especially at a time in which the world is moving towards a new international system. Kofi Anan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, defines globalization as "the rapprochement, continuity and...
Date of source: 27 Dec 2003
The number of Westerners who joined Islam increased over the last two months in spite of campaigns launched against Muslims following September 11 and the war on Iraq.
According to the statistics of the Azhar, the number of Westerners who embraced Islam during the last year is 84 persons, 14 of...
Date of source: 25 Dec 2003
The writer reports that Sheikh Saber Ahmad Ta’lab general director of committees at the Islamic Research Institute declared that the Institute issued a fatwa concerning the Baha’is [http://www.bahai.org/] and Babis [The Babi movement established in 1844 in Persia by Siyyid Ali Muhammad known as the...
Date of source: 25 Dec 2003
Editor: this article seems to be written with the intention to create fear for the U.S. and U.S. protection of the Copts]
The U.S. influence has increased and spread in the world through the establishment of military bases in almost all countries. In Egypt, American influence works through...
Date of source: 29 Dec 2003
There was a confrontation between Mustafa Bakri and Sa’ad Eddin Ibrahim on Orbit Channel. Ibrahim said he called for democracy, but he was attacked because the Arab regimes did not want it. Being asked if Ibn Khaldoun Centre received two million dollars from the U.S., he said that this was not true...
Date of source: 31 Dec 2003
A great discussion is being held in the U.S. about the Arab world and democracy. There are some Arab people whose objective is to achieve and enjoy democracy in order to develop.
The discussion was between two important political intellectuals who belong to the Republican Party. The first one is...
Date of source: 28 Dec 2003
The British paper Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that American missionary groups are working secretly to save Iraqis by converting them to Christianity before the American occupation of Iraq ends officially in June 2004. The paper added that groups belonging to the fundamentalist Christian...
Date of source: 27 Dec 2003
[Al-Ahrar almost certainly took the news from Islam Online. See http://islam-online.net/English/News/2003-12/27/article03.shtml. See this site also for links on this subject]
Shrouded in secrecy and under the guise of humanitarian aid, American missionaries, mainly evangelicals, are pouring into...
Date of source: 30 Dec 2003
Sheikh A’id Al-Qurani, who conducted the three TV interviews with three of the sheikhs of takfir and provocation, called for an end to individual fatwas in order to confront the threat of calls to takfir.
In an interview with Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Sheikh Qurani said that the three sheikhs renounced...
Date of source: 30 Dec 2003
It has been an exceptional year for Saudi Arabia, almost as if a number of years had been concentrated into one. The heralds of change and the signs of transformations emerged in the skylines that darkened with the dust of the towers of Manhattan, knocked down by Al-Qa’eda’s attacks. It was later...
Date of source: 24 Dec 2003
Hassan Al-Banna passed away after he tried to toy with everyone but in fact everyone toyed with him. Since democracy was, and still is, missing in the Brotherhood, men of the second line of the Brotherhood hierarchy fought over the position of supreme guide, who holds all powers.
Brotherhood...
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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.