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Date of source: 21 Nov 2018
Admins of these sites said that the initiator behind this kind gesture is a young Muslim veiled engineer and her friends who wanted to manifest the solidarity between Muslims and Christians in a town that had been facing in recent years a number of sectarian attacks. [Islām Jamāl, al-Yawm al-Sābiʿ...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 22 Nov 2018
The statement further confirms her right of ownership of the monastery which is part of the Coptic Orthodox patriarchate in Jerusalem. The heart of the monastery is the church of Saint Anthony, named after the Egypt-born saint, and it houses the abode of the Coptic archbishop. The Coptic patriarch’...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 21 Nov 2018
Founder of the Quranic Intellectual Trend, Dr. Aḥmad Ṣubḥī Manṣūr (also Ahmad Subhy Mansour and Ahmad Subhi Mansur) believes that al-Sīsī’s call on renewing the religious discourse will never take place as long as the reason that hinders such a renewal still exists, accusing the al-Azhar...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 7 Jul 2018
In my point of view the broad title and goal for intercultural dialogue is to understand. People will never see or know the similarities or differences between cultures without understanding each other, and by doing that they will know the needs of each other and WILL RESPECT the differences.
I do...
Date of source: 27 Jun 2018
In Egypt, it is so familiar to categorize people according to many things like: social class, financial situation, type of school you go to, or the car you drive and, of course, religion. Here is the question: why can’t I love both? Believe in both? How about living in a society where the majority...
Date of source: 27 Jul 2018
At first, I hesitated; I was confused, living in huge mess... Well, everything around me was organized, except, ME! My mind was so messy, I was lost, still suffering from the remnants of depression... but finally thanks to Drs. Cornelis Hulsman's encouragement and help, I applied for joining and...
Date of source: 29 Aug 2018
Egypt's Foreign Minister stressed, during the call, that the freedom of speech should not be mixed with the hate and incitement speech. Many Arab and Islamic countries have protested against the intention of the Dutch Parliament to organize a cartoon contest that offends Islam.
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 21 Nov 2018
Leslie Maras’s family is a working class Belgian family, and they have been able to come visit their son occasionally. However, as his parents are old and weary from travelling, and due to the restrictions living in another country puts on them, looking into transfer to Belgium for Leslie Maras...
Date of source: 21 Nov 2018
More than twenty students arrived from countries as diverse as Egypt, Tunisia, Brazil, India, Austria, and the Netherlands. They participated in a program which combined constructive dialogue, academic instruction, team-building exercises, as well as music and the arts. They explored important...
Date of source: 29 Jul 2018
The last two months have undeniably been one of the most memorable time for me. I must tell that your generosity and kindness are beyond words, hence any attempt for me to express my gratitude through this letter would only go in vain. So, my intention while penning this letter is not to express...
Date of source: 2 Jul 2018
Growing up I even struggled to grasp how those who live in the 21st century can hold such conviction in their faith. I didn’t understand how such educated and modern citizens could have such confidence in such abstract stories. I failed to see how people can believe in a god, who in my mind was so...
Date of source: 26 Jun 2018
Selections from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Genesis 1:1-5, 26 – The Creation
1:1-5: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let...
Date of source: 18 Aug 2018
2. In your view, what is the goal of intercultural dialogue?
Broadening our perspective on the world and helping one another see what the other sees, understanding how differences and variations are an essential part of human culture that will always survive fascist attempts to make every voice...
Date of source: 4 Jul 2018
2. How can you use what you learned in the workshop in your everyday life?
I always try to view ideas from different perspectives, and this was most important for me in forming my views on religion and philosophy. In the workshop I saw an embodiment of how stereotypes work, and how narratives...
Date of source: 9 Nov 2018
The Dāʿish thought, including other terror organizations, emerged as a result of hate speech and hatred. Hammered into the heads in dubious Quranic schools and sermons preached in small mosques or zawyiah, against Copts over decades, encouraging to humiliate them, and treating them as infidels who...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 8 Jul 2018
According to the statement, Dr. al-Ṭayyib revealed that Lord Carey initiated the dialogue between the Anglican Episcopal Church and al-Azhar and praised the importance of this dialogue, and the rapprochement it created.
On his part, Lord Carey emphasized that the awaited visit of the Grand Imam of...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 15 Sep 2018
The Pope also stated that some service projects are being implemented and efforts are underway to improve the road network, indicating that President al-Sīsī is making great efforts towards development and national unity.
His Holiness Pope Tawāḍrūs II is currently on a pastoral journey to a number...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 19 Nov 2018
The two sites visited were:
1st building: The first building visited was the home for homeless girls, next to the brick factory. This was a World Servants project in the years 2008 and 2009. In total there were three World Servants’ groups that worked on this project. The first floor of the...
Date of source: 15 Nov 2018
Church of St. Kārās, New Beni Suef (photo: Cornelis Hulsman)
Yet, the position of the priest is not easy. He is the only priest in his church, while in other churches there are often more priests to serve a congregations of comparable size. It is also not easy because the members of his church...
Date of source: 12 Nov 2018
This is not to deny that incidents such as the recent tragic terrorism attack on Christian pilgrims to the Monastery of St. Samuel but the overall direction in the country is one towards mutual understanding and unity. President al-Sisi [al-Sīsī] called this an attack on Egyptians, refusing to...
Date of source: 4 Oct 2018
During this period of tension, there were two prominent currents in the church. One was led by the late Pope Shinūda III, and the other by Father Mattā al-Miskīn. Both of them had diverging opinions regarding the politicization of the church that started during Pope Shinūda’s era, and recently...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 8 Oct 2018
The Follow-up Committee, headed by Shaykh Muṣṭafā Ḥamīd ʿAbd al-Maqṣūd and Shaykh Muntaṣir Naṣr ʿAzab, found five unlicensed donation boxes, which is a violation of the instructions of the Ministry of Endowments.
According to Ayman Mahrān, head of public relations and media, the boxes were...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 7 Oct 2018
Sanāʾ al-Maṣrī, was a leftist female activist, died at a young age when she was at the peak of her success. She was born in 1958 and died in 2000 following an acute bout of pneumonia, she was 42 years old.
Al-Maṣrī wrote several controversial books characterized by harshness and ruthlessness , such...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 7 Oct 2018
The Pope met with the priests of Washington and a group of the youth who participated in the World Youth Forum that was held in Egypt at the end of last August.
Pope Tawāḍrūs stated that he's pleased for his participation in the diaspora conference and he was keen to meet the older people in (East...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 7 Oct 2018
Anna was a policy advisor at the Swedish Parliament with the Socialist Feminist movement, and is the Secretary-General of the Olof Palme International Center which is named after the late Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
Anna was raised to fight injustice and strive to achieve freedom and...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 6 Oct 2018
In his lecture, Dr. Rihān explained that the Mount Sinai Monastery was established by Emperor Justinian in the 6th century and later its name was changed to St. Catherine Monastery in the 9th century, after finding the ashes of saint Catherine on the Mount Sinai.
Dr. Rihān also indicated that St....
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 8 Oct 2018
The report stated the anger of the residents as the mosque had been expanded a few years ago under General al-Qaṣāṣ, former Governor of Ismailia, and does not need further expansions, especially that the garden serves the entire area which is vital and largely visited by the residents.
The...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 6 Oct 2018
The UNHRC is an inter-governmental body, within the United Nations system, whose mission to promote and defend human rights. The council made up of 47 members elected by the UN General Assembly.
On the 12th of September, The EOHR held a seminar on the "enforced disappearance phenomena in Egypt...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 7 Oct 2018
Tuzer, who comes from the southern province of Antalya, has participated with two friends in founding the “FiRock” rock band.
FiRock performed its first concert in 2013, and launched its first album that combined between Rock music and Sufi music.
The 47-year-old Imām was investigated by...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 8 Oct 2018
Fikrī pointed out that the opinion of al-Azhar with respect to the draft Personal Status Law is non-binding and debatable, especially in terms of the matters which are expressly established and indicative, and so the Parliament should choose the text that fits the current status.
Dr. Fātḥī...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 8 Oct 2018
In the following lines some of the major crimes committed by ʿAshmāwī throughout his journey with the terrorist groups.
Attempted Assassination of the Former Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim by a Car Bombing In September 2013, ʿAshmāwī was charged with attempting to assassinate the Former...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 4 Oct 2018
The Delegation was keen to meet Dr. ʿAnānī during their presence in Egypt, to visit the archaeological and historical sites, in cooperation between Egypt's Peace Lovers Association and the Catholic Church, in order to promote tourism in Egypt.
Aḥmad ʿUbayd, General Supervisor at the Minister of...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 6 Oct 2018
The Governor welcomed the delegation and invited them to visit all the archaeological and tourist attractions in Luxor.
Bishop ʿAmānūʾīl ʿAyyād pointed out that they expressed their admiration for the warm welcome received by the Egyptians. He also indicated that they have met the ministers of...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 6 Oct 2018
The residents of this village have made an unprecedented achievement in fighting poverty and unemployment. They focused on the industry and have established over 35 factories. Thus, they managed to improve their economic status. Starting by bringing sewing machines in installments and worked hard...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 5 Nov 2018
They leave America by the hundreds, Europe by the thousands, and the Arab countries by the tens of thousands. It is one, great, widespread movement going in the direction of Islamic State. That’s where it is happening; that’s where Muslims are supposed to be able to surrender completely and...
Reviewed by Maya Williamson
Translator Maya Williamson
Date of source: 7 Oct 2015 to 5 Nov 2018
Senior editor and Arabist, Eildert Mulder noted that in particular reporting is often particularly poor where it comes to countries and cultures that are different from the audience that is receiving the information. Western journalists, he stated at a forum of the Center for Arab-West...
Date of source: 5 Oct 2018
He believes that the inauguration of the International Academy for Dialogue, which is a cooperation between Al-Azhar and the Evangelical Church, will help to build a culture of dialogue in Egypt and its people despite of their different religious beliefs.
ShaykhʿAfīfī also stressed the role of Al-...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 4 Nov 2018
Date of source: 4 Nov 2018
Rekaya al-Hafi has through her experiences in life searched for God. She has left the Islam as her parents have taught her this. God’s love for humanity is her central theme. As a consequence she rejects all forms of suppression. Her own past plays a major role in this. She had a very authoritarian...
Date of source: 8 Oct 2018 to 1 Nov 2018
There is not much difference between the al-Nahda Movement in Tunisia and the MB Group in Egypt. When al-Banna established the Special Organization in the 1930s, the same was done by Rashid al-Ghannoushy, leader of the MB-affiliated Renaissance Party in Tunisia.
The Special Organization was...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 4 Oct 2018
The writer and thinker Kamal Zakher mourned the death of His Eminence BIshop Bishoy, Metropolitan of Damietta, Kafr al-Sheikh, Belkas, al-Brari and the Monastery of Saint Demiana, offering his condolences to Pope Tawadros II and the Holy Synod.
Zakher stated that Bishop Bishoy was the right hand...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 7 Oct 2018
Recently, there has been a significant increase in false teachings within the Coptic Orthodox Church. As a result, the Church was divided into two groups, namely the reformists and the traditionalists. Both groups exchanged statements and press releases, each defending its viewpoint with texts from...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 7 Oct 2018
In statements to el-Fagr, a Church source revealed that Pope Tawadros II has passed a decision appointing Bishop Paula, Bishop of Tanta, in place of the late Bishop Bishoy.
Last Tuesday, the Coptic Orthodox Church announced the death of Bishop Bishoy, Metropolitan of Dumyat, Kafr al-Sheikh and...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 5 Oct 2018
The conference witnessed 500 tourists from 30 countries, including the United States, France, Canada, Great Britain, China, South Korea and India, in addition to myriads of Egyptians. According to journalist Armāniyyūs al-Minyāwī, media advisor of the Apostolic Community, this event comes as part...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 4 Oct 2018
“This is the anniversary of the victory achieved by our valiant army and our great Egyptian people that restored the land of Sinai in a heroic and epic war, which is regarded as a golden moment for Egypt history. It is a memory that has been and continues to be a strong proof for the victory of...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 8 Oct 2018 to 31 Oct 2018
“Wisdom is a girl with a house standing on seven columns”, a saying that you read as you browse through Dr. Milad Hanna’s Book “The Seven Pillars of the Egyptian Identity” which inspires the visions of the coming World Youth Forum to be launched on 9 September 2018 in Sharm el-Sheikh.
The book...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 8 Oct 2018 to 31 Oct 2018
Former MB leader Ibrahim Rabee described the fugitive Egyptian terrorist Hisham Ashmawi, al-Qaeda Leader in Derna, who was captured by the Libyan army as the black box of the Muslim Brotherhood and the other extremist organizations in Libya.
In his statements to the Youm7 newspaper, Rabee said...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 31 Oct 2018
Last January, I started working as a database editor for CIDT. I was a little anxious because this was my very first job, but thankfully I got on-the-job training by Salma Khamis, the database editor who preceded me, her instructions helped me a lot in getting ahead with the job. I am also...
Date of source: 30 Oct 2018
شريط تسجيل رقم ا:-
لقاء صحفي مع القمص هاتور عبد الله، راعي كنيسة السيدة العذراء بقرية كفر درويش، مركز الفشن بمحافظة بني سويف. اجرى الحوار الدكتور كورنيلس هولسمان رئيس تحرير تقرير العرب و الغرب بمصر، و الباحث الأمريكي ماثيو أندرسون من جامعة جورج تاون بالولايات المتحدة، و السيد خالد حسن من مركز...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 29 Oct 2018
Dr. Janneke Stegeman is in many ways exceptional. Many Christians accept talks about ecumenism with Jews since Christians and Jews share the same books of what Christians call the Old Testament, Jews the Tenach and scholars the Hebrew Bible. Most Christians, however, do not see a similar...
Date of source: 30 Oct 2018
Mrs Stegeman claims that ecumenism as the common goal to create a livable world fits within Islam, and that an ecumenical relation between Christianity and Islam is possible and desirable.
It is a fact that Islam is very diverse and it is evident that not everything that goes wrong in the Islamic...
Date of source: 29 Oct 2018
Without a shred of doubt Janneke Stegeman is a good person, or else she would not be working at the Amsterdam debating centre ‘The New Love’ (in Dutch ‘De Nieuwe Liefde’). The New Love People are absolutely okay, the centre does a great job in promoting dialogue. But even great people can sometimes...
Date of source: 30 Oct 2018
Of course, Muslims and Christians should cooperate for a better world. Dr. Janneke Stegeman writes “Ecumenism is the common goal to create a livable world which fits within the Islam. One could speak about ‘ummah’.”
Janneke Stegeman addresses Christian readers with a Muslim term. Muslims, however,...
Date of source: 24 Oct 2018
Father Hatūr tape recording 1:
Interview with Father Hātūr ʿAbdullāh, pastor of the Church of The Holy Virgin in Kafr Darwīsh, district of Al-Fashn, Beni Suef governorate. The interview was conducted by Drs. Cornelis Hulsman (editor-in-chief of AWR, Egypt), researcher Matthew Anderson (Us,...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 21 Oct 2018
Reading John 6:35-51
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of all hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer.
Let me begin by saying thank you to Richard for inviting me to preach this morning. It has been a joy to get to know some of you over these past few weeks...
Date of source: 17 Oct 2018
EMRA has Christian and Muslim members, and is concerned with reinforcing the national fabric in Egypt based on common shared human and moral values.
The EMRA called for two meetings to discuss the matter, dig deep and investigate the truth about that incident. We invited Drs. Cornelis Hulsman,...
Date of source: 9 Oct 2018
Sufism is a mystic and esoteric branch of Islam. It appeared in the early age of Islam but organized itself in several distinct fraternities, the tariīqa (road), and propagated in Africa until Senegal and India. Sufism is based on the idea that all realities, including the Holy Qurʾān, have two...
Date of source: 1 Jun 2014 to 9 Oct 2018
Arab-West Report, October 8, 2018
Title: Anafora: Oasis and Retreat in the Desert
Author: Ibrahim Morgan
Editor AWR: this article was first placed in the Maadi Messenger in June 2014 when I was the editor of the Maadi Messenger in Cairo, Egypt. We are receiving questions about Anafora, the...
Reviewed by Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Translator Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Date of source: 4 Oct 2018
This brief response goes under the following title:
“The Current and Future Challenge of Setting up an Effective Communication Maxims in Interfaith /Intercultural Encounters to Face the Roots of Terrorism”
This response has two parts: The first part is intended to highlight and refer to the...
Date of source: 27 Sep 2018
This is to testify that we, the undersigned lived, together with our children, in Sīwah Oasis, Egypt, since they were born until 2014. Our children, Mario and Lucien, are now 18 and 15 years old.
We left Sīwah in 2014 because my wife, Susanne Walter, could not home school the kids anymore, since...
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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.