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The Grand Imām of al-Azhar congratulates Muslims over ʿAīd al-Aḍḥa, urges an "immediate" end to the aggression on Gaza
Date of source: 4 Jun 2025
By No Author Mentioned
The Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, congratulated President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī, as well as kings, presidents, princes, and peoples of the Arab and Muslim nations, on ʿAīd al-Aḍḥa. He prays to the Lord Almighty to bring this occasion to the Islamic nation and all of humanity with...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Challenges to the legitimacy of fatwas posed by artificial intelligence and contemporary technologies
Date of source: 10 Jun 2025
By Lū’aī ʿAlī
Dr. Ibrāhīm Nijm, the head of the General Secretariat for Fatwa Authorities Worldwide, stressed that producing rational muftīs is not a luxury, but an existential necessity in the age of artificial intelligence. "We are facing unprecedented transformations that threaten the legitimacy of fatwas if...
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Is Religion the Only Source of Morality?
Date of source: 4 Jun 2025
By Khālid Muntaṣir
Is religion or the power of reason the only source of ethics? In just one decisive word, the Grand Imām of al-Azhar settles in favor of religion, stating that the power of the mind is a source of ethics on the grounds that the latter is changing and human. With all due respect for His Eminence the...
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Dr. Mostafa El-Feki about St. Catherine Monastery crisis: The presence of a foreign colony in the Sinai pleases nobody
Date of source: 6 May 2014
By Dr. Mustafá al-Fiqī
In a meeting at the well-known Downtown Café Riche, hosted by our friend Magdī ʿAbd al-Malāk, the café’s owner and a former military pilot, Major General Aḥmad Rajā’ī ʿAṭīya, an October War hero and education expert, spoke to us about expansions made by the Greek community in Egypt, which has...
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Pope Tawāḍrūs discusses St. Catherine Monastery crisis with Catholic Pope Leo XIV
Date of source: 8 Jun 2025
By Wā’il ʿAlī
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church called Pope Leo XIV, Pope of the Vatican, to congratulate him on his election to lead the Roman Catholic Church. The call, which took place the night before last, emphasized the continuation of amicable relations between the two churches and the...
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Major General ʿAṭīya: St. Catherine’s Monastery gains $500m annually at the expense of the state’s authority
Date of source: 27 Apr 2014
By Māysa Nūḥ
[DAB editorial note: This article from over a decade ago was translated in order to provide background on the ongoing crisis related to the Saint Catherine monastery. Dialogue Across Borders does not take any positions on the matter.] The case of Saint Catherine’s Monastery encroachments on the...
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Sufism, Islamic Feminism, and Comparative Literature at Cairo University (An Interview with Professor Omaima Abu Bakr)
Date of source: 22 Jun 2025
By Dr. Omaima Abou Bakr (Professor at Cairo University)
The First Month of Pope Leo XIV’s Pontificate
Date of source: 8 Jun 2025
By Ashraf Nājiḥ Ibrāhīm ʿAbd al-Malāk
On May 8, 2025, Father Robert Francis Prevost, formerly Bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago and Cardinal of the Catholic Church since 2023, was elected Pope Leo XIV, the 267th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the first Pope from North America and the second in succession from the American...
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Karin Anderson Trip Report
Date of source: 11 Jun 2025
By Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Karin Anderson’s views and those of Christian Zionism in general align with Orthodox Jewish nationalism that sees contemporary Israel as the successor state to ancient Israel and that sees the current states and peoples surrounding Israel as successors to the ancient nations surrounding Israel. On...
Interview with Karin Anderson conducted by Rev. Dr. Matthew Anderson
Date of source: 11 Jun 2025
By Matthew Anderson

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From Living in a Religious Bubble to Interreligious Dialogue
Date of Publication: Sunday, December 31, 2023
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Intercultural and interreligious dialogue brought Cornelis Hulsman from a conservative Christian Reformed bubble in the Netherlands to a deeply ecumenical attitude, refraining from absolutist statements about faith since any religion is the outcome of a human search for meaning in life. Hulsman was asked to reflect on his personal development by
Christian Statistics in Egypt: A Look at the 1986 CAPMAS Census
Date of Publication: Saturday, December 30, 2023
By: Mariam Aly Ibrahim
 The purpose of this study is to present the most accurate data on the statistics of Christians in Egypt. The data were collected by the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) 1986 census, the last year that the CAPMAS included the number of Christians for the smallest administrative units and computed these in
A Difficult Dialogue with Dutch Arabist Dr. Hans Jansen Who Lost Faith in Dialogue with Muslims
Date of Publication: Friday, December 30, 2022
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
This text about Dutch Arabist and scholar of Islam Prof. Dr. Johannes (Hans) G. Jansen (1942-2015) is based on Cornelis Hulsman’s personal experiences with Prof. Jansen as a student at Leiden University, the Netherlands, but even more on the email exchanges with Hans Jansen in 2008 and between August 1, 2011, and April 5, 2014. Jansen developed a
The Tribunal of Love: The Four Stages of Love in Ibn al-Fāriḍ’s Poetry
Date of Publication: Monday, October 10, 2022
By: Lara Gibson
Lara Gibson participated in the CAWU-Heliopolis University summer school between June 27 and July 6, 2018, and interned with our center between July 8 and October 4, 2018. Lara studied Arabic language and culture at Durham University, UK. In her letter of motivation, she wrote “your programme appeals to me primarily because of the hands-on and
Bubastis, Capital of Egypt and Ezekiel, The Prophet in Exile
Date of Publication: Wednesday, December 22, 2021
By: Konrad Knolle
After the publication of Be Thou There; the Holy Family’s Journey in Egypt (AUC Press, 2001), Cornelis Hulsman organized a number of ‘pilgrimages’ to locations of the Holy Family in Egypt. One of these was with the German Evangelical Church in Boulaq, Cairo, to Tal Basṭa, Bubastis in the prophecy of Ezekiel. Bubastis had been the capital of Egypt
Israeli Apartheid? A Critical Analysis of a Contentious Debate
Date of Publication: Tuesday, November 30, 2021
By: Britt van Rossum
Over the last few decades, comparisons have continuously been drawn between Israel and its policies and the system of South African apartheid. Certain events in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have given impulses to the use of this analogy, such as the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory after the Six-Day war in 1967, the
Political violence, activism and conflict
Date of Publication: Thursday, November 18, 2021
By: Janneke Wijman
This research explores the question as to how Wasatia as an Islamist movement seeks to represent the Palestinian moderate voice in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is examined through an in-depth interview with the founder of the movement, content analysis, and the use of a theoretical framework that combines nonviolence, social movement
Copts during the first century of Islam and that history’s relevance today
Date of Publication: Sunday, November 14, 2021
By: Harald Suermann (Prof.) (Dr.)
The Arabic or Islamic conquest of Egypt in 639-642 CE had far-reaching consequences. Discussions of this historical event play a major role in modern Muslim-Christian discussions. Christians speak of a conquest whereas Muslims tend to speak of the opening of Egypt or liberation of Egypt from its Roman/Byzantine occupiers. The shifting views of
Efforts of foreign governments trying to influence politics in Egypt; An Egyptian Ambassador’s views on Dutch-Egyptian relations after President Mursī had been removed from power in 2013
Date of Publication: Sunday, December 27, 2020
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
The following text contains sensitive information and highlights various concerns from an Egyptian ambassador regarding foreign influence on political and environmental decisions and movements in Egypt. A lot of the content regards European countries, a focus on questionable Dutch decisions in the period the Muslim Brotherhood tried to come to
Between science, belief and wishful thinking: Reviewing Dr. Maḥmūd ʿUmar’s “The Well of the Holy Family in Tal Basṭa.”
Date of Publication: Wednesday, December 23, 2020
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Having a PhD degree is not a guarantee for good academic work. Dr. Mahmoud Omar [Maḥmūd ʿUmar] may have been a good archeologist, but he ruined his own academic reputation by interpreting medieval traditions as historical facts, as descriptions that have actually happened. “What we today understand as ‘facts’ did not exist centuries ago,”

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Egypt's Draft Constitution Rewards the Military and Judiciary'
Date of source: Sunday, December 1, 2013
By: LinkedIn
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EGYPT,BACK TO MILITARY RULE: ''Egypt's Draft Constitution Rewards the Military and J
Egyptian Christians fear chaos after wedding bloodshed
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2013
By: Reuters
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By: Yasmine Saleh
Egypt's Coptic community in fear following attack outside church
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2013
By: Radio Vatican
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(Vatican Radio) Egypt’s government and religious leaders have condemned an attack outside a Coptic church in Cairo on Sunday that killed four people including an 8 year old girl.
Egyptian Muslims, Copts clash in Minya
Date of source: Friday, November 29, 2013
By: World Bulletin
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Egyptian Muslims, Copts clash in Minya The violence erupted in Al-Badrman village over an alleged love affair between a Coptic man and a Muslim woman, the source said. World Bulletin / News Desk
“Another night on Earth” - Egypt through taxi conversations -
Date of source: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
By: Your Middle East
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Does the back seat of a taxi sound like a boring set for a documentary? If so, think again. Director David Muñoz shows how the chaotic traffic scene in Cairo is full of interesting conversations.
Sisi’s Egypt
Date of source: Friday, November 8, 2013
By: openDemocracy
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A look inside the life of a Christian Copt
Date of source: Sunday, November 24, 2013
By: The Daily Campus
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After Retaking of Delga, Christians Terrorized in Other Towns in Egypt
Date of source: Monday, November 25, 2013
By: Assist News Service
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By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries
Muslim Brotherhood Practices Politics Through 'Terrorist' Ideology
Date of source: Friday, October 18, 2013
By: AINA (Assyrian Intl. News Ag.)
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The Muslim Brotherhood is practicing politics through a terrorist ideology, claims Nabil Metry, a member of the Executive Office of the Regional Association of Non-Governmental Organizations.
Egypt’s new protest law provokes demonstrations, backlash
Date of source: Tuesday, November 26, 2013
By: Al Monitor
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CAIRO — It took only minutes for activists to witness Egypt’s controversial new protest law in action on Nov. 26.

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The One-Year Anniversary of the Two Saints' Church Bombing
Newsletter Number: 25
Year: 2011
Merry Christmas From Arab West Report!
Newsletter Number: 24
Year: 2011
Dutch Broadcaster Wrong to Report that Coptic Christians Burned Their Own Church
Newsletter Number: 23
Year: 2011
AWR Revisits Violent Events Leading up to Egypt's Parliamentary Elections
Newsletter Number: 21
Year: 2011
Egyptian Election Procedures May Represent Improvement over Past for Copts.
Newsletter Number: 20
Year: 2011
Does Shari'a Really Prohibit Building Churches?
Newsletter Number: 19
Year: 2011
Analyzing Video Evidence from Maspero: Bloody Confrontations following the Coptic Protest of October 9, 2011
Newsletter Number: 18
Year: 2011
Clashes, Deaths at Coptic Protest in Cairo
Newsletter Number: 17
Year: 2011
Burning the Dome: AWR Investigates Sectarian Violence in Upper Egyptian City of Edfu
Newsletter Number: 16
Year: 2011
Storming the Israeli Embassy: The Greater Context
Newsletter Number: 15
Year: 2011

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