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Date of source: 10 Apr 2015
I first visited Sarakna in 1995, a primarily Christian village close to the Monastery of Muharraq, 330 km south of Cairo. The characteristic structure, with a circular road through the village, is still there but most mud brick houses of the early 1990s have been replaced by larger modern stone...
Date of source: 21 Jul 2016
TEL AVIV - Israeli militants are raising funds to rebuild a Jewish temple on a site now occupied by Al Aqsa Mosque in east Jerusalem, the Haaretz newspaper reported on Tuesday. The Jewish radicals held a secret fund-raising meeting in a Jerusalem hotel several weeks ago and plan to hold further...
Date of source: 28 Jun 2016
Bradley is also critical of the dullness of the Egyptian cultural scene after the 1952 revolution. Since the nineteenth century up until the 1950s, Cairo had “an architectural flowering that was unparalleled, with a variety of styles existing side by side: baroque, neo-classical, art nouveau, art...
Date of source: 28 Jun 2012
Date of source: 28 Jun 2016
Cairo, May 25: “We have to think: This is four years. People will learn a lot in the next four years!” This, paired with the fact that many Egyptians have never voted before—even less have ever experienced a free presidential election, as the one the entire world witnessed take place in Egypt last...
Date of source: 28 Jun 2016
The Egyptian Minister of Tourism Mounir Fakhry Abd El Nour expressed his confidence and comfort in the wake of the recent achieved numbers, declaring that an increase of 29.1% has been achieved starting from January till May 2012, compared to the same period last year. Mr. Abd El Nour added that,...
Date of source: 12 Jun 2016
Date of source: 21 Apr 2016
Traditions vary, but one popular narrative depicts Mary, Joseph, and Jesus as refugees from King Herod’s wrath for a period of three-and-a-half years. They first traversed the northern Sinai before circling through spots in the Delta, Wadi Natrun, and what would become the Greater Cairo area.
In...
Date of source: 1 Mar 2007
ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Masīrī (*1938)
Roles and Functions
Dr. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Masīrī is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at ʿAin Shams University, Egypt and an author of numerous books and studies about theoretical, political, literary and cultural issues. Since January 2007,...
Date of source: 1 Jan 2006
Roles and Functions
Former vice Head of the Permanent Committee of the Azhar for the Dialogue with the Monotheistic Religions (since 2002).
Advisor to the Grand Imām of the Azhar for Inter-Faith Dialogue until 2003.
President of the Paris-based International Union for Jewish-Muslim-Christian...
Date of source: 1 Jun 2006
ʿAmrū Khālid (*1967)
Role and Function
ʿAmrū Khālid who has become a trendsetting Egyptian Islamic TV-preacher introduced an unique way of preachings that attract thousands of Muslims all over the world.
Education, Career and Personal Background
ʿAmrū Khālid was born in a well-off family in 1967...
Date of source: 1 Jun 2007
ʿIṣām al-ʿIrīyān (*1954)
Role and Function
ʿIṣām al-ʿIrīyān is the Head of the political office of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Assistant Secretary-General of the Egyptian Doctors’ Syndicate. He has played a major role in turning the Muslim Brotherhood into a political organization with a...
Date of source: 1 Mar 2007
Roles and Functions
Spiritual leader and muftī of Jamāʿah al-Islāmīyah al-Misrīyah
Currently serving a life sentence for terrorist activities in U.S.
Education, Career and Personal Background
ʿUmar ʿAbd al-Raḥman was born in 1938 in the village of al-Jamālīyah on the Nile Delta. He lost his...
Date of source: 1 Aug 2007
Role and Function
Founder of Hizb al-Wasat (the Center Party)
Education, Career and Personal Background
ʾAbū al-ʿAlā Māḍī was born in 1958 into a religious, Muslim family in Minia, Egypt. He claims to have started to memorize the Qur’ān when he was three years old.1 He received his primary and...
Date of source: 1 Nov 2006
Roles and Functions
Bishop of the Episcopal (Anglican) Church of Egypt, North Africa and the Horn of Africa (since 2000)
Member of The Joint Dialogue Committee of the Anglican Communion and al-Azhar al-Sharīf (since 2002)
Education, Career and Personal Background
Munīr Ḥannā Anīs was born in...
Date of source: 1 May 2007
Roles and Functions
Psychiatrist
Novelist
Feminist Activist
Education, Career and Personal Background
Nawāl al-Saʿdāwī was born in Kafr Tahlah in Egypt's Delta, in 1931. Her father was a civil servant at the Ministry of Education. Her parents who had 8 other kids sent al-Saʿdāwī along with...
Date of source: 1 Oct 2006
Roles and Functions
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, The American University in Cairo, Egypt (since 2004)
Doctor of Arts, Political Science (since 2002)
Education, Career and Personal Background
Ralph Donald Berenger was born in 1945 in North...
Date of source: 1 May 2007
Roles and Functions
Head of the left-wing opposition Party The Tajammuʿ National Progressive Unionist Party, (Hizb Al-Tajammuʿ Al-Watanī Al-Taqaddumī Al-Wahdawī) known as al-Tajammuʿ Party , since 2003.
Chairman of the Board of the Al-Ahali newspaper (the mouthpiece of al-Tajammuʿ Party newspaper...
Date of source: 1 Oct 2006
Roles and Functions
American professor of political science (since 1950)
International Relations theorist
Author of 'The Clash of Civilizations and Remaking of World Order' (1993)
Education, Career and Personal Background
Samuel Phillips Huntington was born in 1927, in New York, USA. He...
Date of source: 1 Jan 2007
Roles and Functions
Founder of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation (founded in 2005)
Co-founder of Arab-West Report, previously called Religious News Service from the Arab World (founded in 1997)
Co-founder of the NGO to become the Center for Arab-West Understanding
Education,...
Date of source: 1 Apr 2007
Roles and Functions
Egyptian Human Rights and democratization activist.
Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo
Founder and chairman of the Cairo-based Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies
Education, Career and Personal Background
Saʿd al-Dīn Ibrāhīm has been a...
Date of source: 1 Oct 2006
Roles and Functions
Director of The Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute, Cairo, Egypt (since 2004)
Associate professor of Islamic Studies (since 1996)
Education, Career and Personal Background
Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen was born in Denmark in 1963. He is director of The Danish-Egyptian Dialogue...
Date of source: 1 Jun 2010
Roles and Functions
Outstanding Egyptian Islamic thinker who specialized in the minority affairs;
Historian and philosopher;
Activist in the field of the Christian-Muslim dialogue;
Valued theories in the field of Islamic legislation;
Egyptian legal specialist;
The first deputy of the chairman of...
Date of source: 1 Feb 2007
Roles and Functions
Swiss-Egyptian professor of Islamic Studies
Trend setting and controversial proponent of a “European Islam”
Education, Career and Personal Background
Ṭāriq Saʿīd Ramaḍān was born in 1962 in Geneva, Switzerland. He is the grandson of Ḥasan al-Bannā, the founder of the...
Date of source: 1 Jan 2007
Roles and Functions
Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of al-Qūsīyah and Mīr in Assīūṭ, Egypt (since 1988).
He established the Christian retreat center Anafūrah.
Education, Career and Personal Background
Bishop Thomas is the Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of al-Qūsīyah and Mīr in ...
Date of source: 1 Nov 2006
Roles and Functions
Cairo correspondent, Der Spiegel (German weekly magazine) (since 1973)
Chairman of Cairo Foreign Press Association (since 1994)
Education, Career and Personal Background
Volkhard Windfuhr was born in 1937 in Essen, Germany. His father passed away while he was still young,...
Date of source: 1 Jan 2005
Roles and Functions
Egyptian professor of Usūl al-Dīn at the Azhar University in Cairo, since 1972.
Board member of the Egyptian Philosophical Association, since 1987.
Member of the Islamic Research Academy, since 2000.
Member of the board of advisors of Arab-West Report (AWR), since 1998. ...
Date of source: 1 Jul 2006
Roles and Functions
The 106th Bishop of Rochester, England (since 1994).
Secretary General of Church Mission Society (C.M.S.), (1989-1994).
Member of the British House of Lords (1999 - today).
Bishop of Raiwind, Pakistan, (1984-1986).
Education, Career and Personal Background
Bishop Michael...
Date of source: 1 Jan 2006
Roles and Functions
Coptic activist
Co-founder of the left-wing opposition party al-Tajammuʿ National Progressive Unionist Party (Hizb Al-Tajammuʿ Al-Watanī Al-Taqaddumī Al-Wahdawī), known in short as al-Tajammuʿ Party
Professor of Construction in the Faculty of Engineering, ʿAin Shams University...
Date of source: 1 Jul 2007
Roles and Functions
First Deputy for the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
Professor of Geology, Assiūt University, Egypt
Education, Career and Personal Background
Muḥammad Ḥabīb was born in Dumiāt (Damietta) in the Nile-delta in 1943. He studied geology at Assiūt University...
Date of source: 1 May 2007
Roles and Functions
Elected Deputy of the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 2003
In later years, al-Shāṭir has attained a number of additional degrees and diplomas in various fields:
Islamic Studies diploma, Islamic Studies Institute, Cairo, 1999.
Diploma in Business...
Date of source: 1 Dec 2006
Roles and Functions
Supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood (since 2004)
Education, Career and Personal Background
Muḥammad Mahdī ʿĀkif was born in Daqahlīyah province, Egypt, in 1928. In 1950 he graduated from the Higher Institute of Physical Education and afterwards worked as a teacher at a...
Date of source: 1 Nov 2006
Roles and Functions
Shah (King) of Iran (1941-1979)
Titles: Shāhanshāh (King of Kings); Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans)
Education, Career and Personal Background
Muḥammad Reżā Pahlavi was born on October 26, 1919 in Tehran to Shah [King] Reżā Pahlavi and al-Mulūk1. His father sent him to the...
Date of source: 1 Feb 2007
Roles and Functions
Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee at the Egyptian People's Assembly (since 2001).
Al-Fiqī started his diplomatic career in 1966 as an attaché in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He occupied different positions in this field2:
Deputy Consulate in the Egyptian...
Date of source: 1 Nov 2006
Roles and Functions
Bishop of the Episcopal (Anglican) Church of Egypt, North Africa and the Horn of Africa (since 2000)
Member of The Joint Dialogue Committee of the Anglican Communion and al-Azhar al-Sharīf (since 2002)
Education, Career and Personal Background
Munīr Hannā Anīs was born in...
Date of source: 1 Mar 2007
Roles and Functions
Leading figure of the 'religious right' political movement in USA
American Baptist pastor 1956-2007
Famous TV preacher 1956-2007
Education, Career and Personal Background
Reverend Jerry Lamon Falwell was born on August 11, 1933 in Lynchburg, Virginia and he died there in...
Date of source: 1 Nov 2006
Roles and Functions
Anglican priest (since 1967)
Ph.D. in theology (since 1977)
Member of the Board of Advisors for Arab-West Report (since 1999)
Education, Career and Personal Background
John Harold Watson was born in England on May 14, 1938. For most of the Second World War he lived in...
Date of source: 1 Feb 2007
Bishop Marqus (*1944)
Roles and Functions
Bishop Marqus is Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Shubrā al-Khaymah, Cairo since 1978.
Bishop Marqus is known to be a loyal supporter of Pope Shenouda III.
Occasionaly he has functioned as spokesman of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Since 2005, he is...
Date of source: 1 Oct 2006
Roles and Functions
Professor of English and Comparative Literature (since 1973)
Member of the editorial board of Arab-West Report (AWR) (since 2004)
Education, Career and Personal Background
Mary May Farīd Masʿūd was born in Cairo, Egypt. She obtained her BA Honors Degree in English from Cairo...
Date of source: 1 Mar 2007
Roles and Functions
Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk (1919-2006)
Orthodox theologian and reformer
Author of spiritual and theological books
Education, Career and Personal Background
Father Mattah al-Māskīn, before his consecration he was called Yūsuf Iskandar, was born on September 20, 1919,1...
Date of source: 1 Oct 2006
Roles and Functions
Egyptian-American Coptic activist
Founder and chairman of the US Copts Association since 1996
Education, Career and Personal Background
Michael Munīr was born in 1968 in Egypt in Abu Qurqas near Minia to a Coptic Catholic family even though he today considers himself...
Date of source: 1 Oct 2006
Roles and Functions
Bishop Buṭrus is General bishop of Coptic Orthodox Church since 1985. In 2002 he became a member of the board of adivsors of the Religious News Service from the Arab World. The bishop is known for for the controversy over the Charity Isle of Patmos. Bishop Buṭrus was born in...
Date of source: 1 Nov 2006
Roles and Functions
PhD in Islamic thought (1987)
Jesuit priest (since 1955)
Became a member of the Jesuit order in 1955. Since April 12, 1969, he has been a priest.
Education, Career and Personal Background
Christiaan van Nispen tot Sevenaer was born in The Netherlands in 1938. In 1962 he...
Date of source: 1 Jan 2007
Roles and Functions
Director of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation since 2005
Co-founder and editor-in-chief of Arab-West Report, previously called Religious News Service from the Arab World (founded in 1997)
Co-founder of the NGO to become the Center for Arab-West Understanding...
Date of source: 1 Oct 2006
Roles and Functions
Acting director for the Center for Middle East Christianity, Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (since 2004)
Professor in Comparative Religions and Middle East Christianity
Education, Career and Personal Background
David D. Grafton was born in Dearborn, Michigan, U.S...
Date of source: 1 Feb 2007
Roles and Functions
Culture editor of the Danish Newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands Posten since 2004.
Responsible for the publishing of 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muḥammad, 2005.
Education, Career and Personal Background
Flemming Rose was born in Denmark in 1958. At the University of...
Date of source: 1 May 2007
Roles and Functions
Hāla Muṣṭafā is an Egyptian political scientist and analyst who is the Editor-in-chief of the quarterly political journal Dīmuqrātīyah [Democracy Review] and Member of the National Democratic party.
Education, Career and Personal Background
Hāla Muṣṭafā was born in Egypt...
Date of source: 1 Oct 2006
Roles and Functions
Ḥasan Ḥanafī is a Muslim liberal leftist thinker who has been and still is a professor in philosophy at Cairo University since 1988. Ḥanafī defends the political legitimacy of the Muslim Brotherhood and he is worried that the continuous marginalization and criminalization of the...
Date of source: 1 Nov 2006
Roles and Functions
Dutch emeritus professor of Science of Religions at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
An expert in Islamic studies and the study of religion.
Education, Career and Personal Background
Professor Dr. Jacques Waardenburg is a Dutch emeritus professor of Science of...
Date of source: 11 Apr 2016
Roles and Functions
- Egyptian thinker. - Brother of Hasan al-Bannā, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Islamic writer Jamal al-Banna raises interesting observations and states that it has been quite common for Christians and Jews to convert to Islam to avoid persecution and then leave it once...
Date of source: 1 Oct 2006
Roles and Functions
Egyptian thinker.
Brother of Ḥasan al-Bannā, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Islamic writer Jamāl al-Bannā raises interesting observations and states that it has been quite common for Christians and Jews to convert to Islam to avoid persecution and then leave it once...
Date of source: 18 May 2015
Date of source: 1 Jul 2007
Roles and Functions
President of the Azhar University since 2003
Grand Muftī of the Republic of Egypt, March 2002 - September 2003
Professor of Philosophy and Theology, al-Azhar University, since 1988
Education, Career and Personal Background
Dr. Āḥmad Muhammad al-Ṭayyib was born on January...
Date of source: 18 May 2015
Date of source: 18 May 2015
Date of source: 18 May 2015
Date of source: 1 Jan 2008
Education, Career and Personal Background
Āmīnah Wadūd is an African-American woman who is known for her strong engagement in Islamic Feminism. However, she was raised as a Christian by her father, a Methodist minister, and converted to Islam in 1972.(1) Amīnah Wadūd studied Islamic Studies and...
Date of source: 1 Mar 2007
Roles and Functions
General Secretary of the Arab League
Former Egyptian minister of foreign affairs
Education, Career and Personal Background
ʿAmrū Mūsā was born in Egypt in 1936. He graduated from the Department of Law at Cairo University in 1957 and functioned as a lawyer for one year...
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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.