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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...
Date of source: 27 Sep 2018
In preparing the latest edition of the Lonely Planet Egypt guide, published in July 2017, I was asked to assess the situation for foreign visitors to Sīwah. "At the time of writing the situation of travelling to the oases was fairly confused, not least in the variety of travel advisories from...
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Date of source: 20 Sep 2018
When the Arab Spring came to Egypt, we happened to be in Sīwah Oasis.Since we lived outside of town, without electricity or internet, it took several days before we realized what was actually happening in Cairo following the January 25 Revolution in 2011.As we observed nothing in Sīwah indicating...
Date of source: 12 Sep 2018
Several domestic and regional media outlets have published articles discussing the merits of the ground-breaking summer school. These include al-Yāwm al-Sābi', al-Mūjaz, al-Zaman, Ḥadramawt Net, Gulf 365, al-Yawm al-Jadīd and al-Balad News. The articles cited comments from the President of...
Date of source: 3 Sep 2018
The president added that the summer school included 25 participants from 11 countries, who took part in workshops and lectures which included rich discussions among the participants, who exchanged views and opinions in a mutually respectful and culturally sensitive way.
Dr Hāshim further...
Reviewed by Lara Gibson
Translator Lara Gibson
Date of source: 3 Sep 2018
The president added that the summer school included 25 participants from 11 countries, who took part in workshops and lectures which included rich discussions among the participants, who exchanged views and opinions in a mutually respectful and culturally sensitive way.
Dr Hāshim further...
Reviewed by Lara Gibson
Translator Lara Gibson
Date of source: 3 Sep 2018
The president added that the summer school included 25 participants from 11 countries, who took part in workshops and lectures which included rich discussions among the participants, who exchanged views and opinions in a mutually respectful and culturally sensitive way.
Dr Hāshim further...
Date of source: 3 Sep 2018
The president added that the summer school included 25 participants from 11 countries, who took part in workshops and lectures which included rich discussions among the participants, who exchanged views and opinions in a mutually respectful and culturally sensitive way.
Dr Hāshim further...
Reviewed by Lara Gibson
Translator Lara Gibson
Date of source: 3 Sep 2018
The president added that the summer school included 25 participants from 11 countries, who took part in workshops and lectures which included rich discussions among the participants, who exchanged views and opinions in a mutually respectful and culturally sensitive way.
Dr Hāshim further...
Reviewed by Lara Gibson
Translator Lara Gibson
Date of source: 3 Sep 2018
The president added that the summer school included 25 participants from 11 countries, who took part in workshops and lectures which included rich discussions among the participants, who exchanged views and opinions in a mutually respectful and culturally sensitive way.
Dr Hāshim further...
Reviewed by Lara Gibson
Translator Lara Gibson
Date of source: 3 Sep 2018
The president added that the summer school included 25 participants from 11 countries, who took part in workshops and lectures which included rich discussions among the participants, who exchanged views and opinions in a mutually respectful and culturally sensitive way.
Dr Hāshim further...
Reviewed by Lara Gibson
Translator Lara Gibson
Date of source: 9 Sep 2018
A unique experience that shifted my understanding of what I thought was possible under this heaven and survivable by any human.
All of us have unique realities. As time continues to unlock without end, so do our lives and the circumstances that shape our subjective realities. Her life’s account...
Date of source: 29 Aug 2018
Part 1: The Cognitive Revolution
The book commences with a brief history of sapiens from a scientific and biological perspective. Harari explains that the main difference between animals and humans is how they function as a group. Animals are separated: they only want to mate, reproduce, and...
Date of source: 12 Jun 2013
Date of source: 12 Jun 2013
Date of source: 28 Aug 2018
Maghāgha is the local centre, and seat of Coptic Orthodox Bishop Aghathon, and was our first port of call. Here we were welcomed into a reception hall for tea and coffee before being given a tour of the church complex – built over the last five years, and opened in January 2018, it is a large and...
Date of source: 28 Aug 2018
The Church as a Social Force in Sarāqna
As is to be expected, religion constitutes a, if not the, central element of daily life in Sarāqna. There are three masses held each week in each of the two churches in the village which, despite the 6 AM start, are well-attended (although it is also worth...
Date of source: 6 Aug 2018
The empowerment of the female voice is an essential aspect of the Egyptian women's liberation movement. As a medical doctor, she has a strong voice, and after paying close attention to the physical and mental health of Egyptian women, she uses her voice to sharply criticize female genital...
Date of source: 5 Aug 2018
Q: After nearly four years of the new constitution being ratified, how do you evaluate Egypt’s polity and government in terms of strengthening democracy?
A: The important thing is that now we have a constitution that governs the governance of Egypt. It is a new thing in the life of Egypt because...
Date of source: 21 Jun 2018
Popular areas are linked to poverty and hand built houses. But there are two other underlying aspects that are also important to understanding them:
On the political and religious level, during the Mubārak period, the Muslim Brotherhood, and by extent political Islam, the belief that Islam should...
Date of source: 13 Jun 2018
Text for Samen
Diaconal Services Delivered by the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) in Egypt.
We, the board of the Arab-West Foundation in the Netherlands, are grateful for the deaconry’s decision to include Cornelis (Kees) Hulsman’s work in Egypt on the collection list for 2018-2020 [...
Reviewed by Maya Williamson
Translator Maya Williamson
Date of source: 24 May 2018
I would like to begin by explaining some of the reasons I chose the topic of blasphemy in Islam. In some respects, I am talking here about elements of the deep structure of the dissertation. These underlying motivations have shaped and inspired this study, but they are not always explicit. I...
Date of source: 20 May 2018
The first point Ms. Najwā Ruʾūf wanted to emphasize during the interview was her belief that the most important aspect of her work is in trying to change people in the area for the better, especially focusing on giving them a sense of dignity. From this starting point, every project carried out by...
Date of source: 16 May 2018
Pharmacologist Dr. Ibrāhīm Abū al-ʿAysh [Ibrahim Abouleish] (1937-2017) decided to return to his homeland Egypt after spending more than twenty years in Austria. He was deeply shocked by the socio-economic situation in Egypt, and decided to become a social entrepreneur, that is mixing business with...
Date of source: 16 May 2018
My stay was quite short, one month and a half, however, Arab-West Report has been a great experience in which I was able to learn much more than what I expected. I got the chance to talk with people and conduct interviews in English and also in Arabic which is, in my opinion, really important as it...
Date of source: 26 Apr 2018
MISEREOR
MISEREOR is a German Catholic Bishops’ Organization for Development Cooperation; it aids developing countries in their fight against injustice and poverty in any form, acting as a connection between the church and state of Germany.
“MISEREOR unterstützt Menschen dort, wo die Armut am...
Date of source: 15 Apr 2018
Preparations
I met Nina, the leader of the Maadi Community Church Ministry for visiting prisoners, on March 12, 2018. She explained that having passports, and not wearing blue or white clothes, are the most important requirement for visiting al-Qanāṭir. This is because prisoners are dressed in...
Date of source: 22 Mar 2018
Translation of the text of Trouw:
Egypt is About to Explode.
Even while its population increases at an alarming rate, Egypt suffers from a severe shortage of water, but as Jonathan Holslag reports in Part 17 of his travel series Europe does not seem to care much about this important country.
If...
Reviewed by Maya Williamson
Translator Maya Williamson
Date of source: 7 Jan 2013
Pope Tawadros received congratualtory phone calls from both President Mursī and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide, Muhammad Badīꞌ, to greet him for Christmas.
According to al-Misrī al-Yawm, many Muslims manifested their solidarity with their Christian countrymen by attending Christmas all over...
Date of source: 7 Jan 2013
The president's congratulations came after the objection of Salafists as they isuued fatwas forbidding congratulating Copts on their holidays.
Date of source: 7 Jan 2013
Date of source: 5 Apr 2018
CIDT and CAWU launched the book The 2014 Egyptian Constitution: Perspectives from Egypt. Under the title “Vision of a Sustainable Future for Egypt”; politicians, students of the university, diplomats and interns of CAWU came together in the Space of Culture at the beautiful green campus of...
Date of source: 3 Apr 2018
Introduction
By: Cornelis Hulsman
This article of Maged Atiya [Mājid ʿAṭiyya] on Immigration And the Reinvention of Identity describes that part of Egyptian history that I have lived. I have known many of the actors in this text personally: Pope Shenouda [Shīnūda], Bishop Samuel, Bishop...
Date of source: 17 Mar 2018
The church said in a statement that the celebration will begin at 6 pm and end at 8 pm. Every year, the Evangelical Church celebrates Easter a couple of hours earlier than the liturgical celebration held by the Coptic Orthodox Church, to give public officials the opportunity to attend and...
Reviewed by Hānī Labīb
Translator Hānī Labīb
Date of source: 17 Mar 2018
Salafist leaders called on their relatives and neighbors to participate positively. At the same time, Coptic bishops abroad were at the forefront of voters, encouraging Coptic Christians abroad to participate in the elections, especially as churches provided buses to transport those wishing to vote...
Reviewed by Hānī Labīb
Translator Hānī Labīb
Date of source: 17 Mar 2018
He pointed out that the BBC made a big mistake in broadcasting that report about Zubaydah, an Egyptian young woman whose mother alleged that she forcibly disappeared and was tortured by Egyptian security members, and that it was supposed to apologize or clarify, but it has not done so yet, which is...
Reviewed by Hānī Labīb
Translator Hānī Labīb
Date of source: 17 Mar 2018
The Pope’s talk about the number of Copts in Egypt is not new, as he has already touched on the same issue, and confirmed the same number in a statement issued by the church after a visit by an Ethiopian diplomatic delegation.
The pope’s statement on the number of Copts is regarded as the first...
Reviewed by Hānī Labīb
Translator Hānī Labīb
Date of source: 17 Mar 2018
“Pope Shinūdah initiated dialogue with all the Byzantine Orthodox churches and other Orthodox sister churches,” said Pope Tawādrūs, who added that the church is keen on continuing such dialouges, which extended to include dialogues with the Catholic Church.
Reviewed by Hānī Labīb
Translator Hānī Labīb
Date of source: 17 Mar 2018
In an interview with MBC TV channel, Pope Tawādrūs II said that bin Salmān’s visit had a profound impact, and his meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince was an extension of the close relations between the Kingdom and Egypt.
The Pope pointed out that he had already visited several Arab countries,...
Reviewed by Hānī Labīb
Translator Hānī Labīb
Date of source: 17 Mar 2018
"The Coptic Church is a national, then religious institution”, he added, and explained that this is not a political attitude, as believed by some people.
He stressed that the Egyptian Church plays a religious role in a spiritual field away from politics, pointing out that significant loss occurs...
Reviewed by Hānī Labīb
Translator Hānī Labīb
Date of source: 17 Mar 2018
“We are happy to be at the Egyptian Embassy after travelling for about 400 kilometers to cast our votes in the Embassy’s polling station, and meet with the Egyptian Ambassador”, said Bishop Damian, after casting his vote in the Egyptian presidential elections.
Bishop Damian added that Egypt is a...
Reviewed by Hānī Labīb
Translator Hānī Labīb
Date of source: 17 Mar 2018
In the conference held in al-Minyā, on Saturday, by the women secretariat of the “We Are All With You for Egypt” Campaign, Tawfīq, who denounced the boycott calls, said that participation in the presidential elections is a religious and civilized manifestation.
In the same vein, Rev. Kamāl Rushdī...
Reviewed by Hānī Labīb
Translator Hānī Labīb
Date of source: 17 Mar 2018
In a press statement, Pope Tawādrūs II pointed out that Islam in Egypt is as moderate as the Nile River, which runs smoothly and supplies many countries with water indiscriminately.
He stressed that Muslims in Egypt have a message of peace and do not adopt violence. However, some have hijacked...
Reviewed by Hānī Labīb
Translator Hānī Labīb
Date of source: 17 Mar 2018
Nādir Subḥī, the founder of the Christian Youth Movement, said that hanging electoral banners inside churches has stirred anger from many Coptic Christians. In a special statement to al-Dustūr, Subḥī stressed that all Christians are willing to participate in the presidential election vote and...
Reviewed by Hānī Labīb
Translator Hānī Labīb
Date of source: 4 Jan 2013
Nādir noted that Coptic Orthodox Bishop Raphael, general secretary of the Holy Synod, will lead the Christmas Mass in Alexandria. Among the high-ranking officials who are expected to extend their congratulations on the occasion is the governor of Alexandria Muhammad ’Atá 'Abbās and the State...
Date of source: 4 Jan 2013
The blackmail suggests that as the resort was “purchased by Barsūm through 'illegal' business between the owner and a remnant of the former regime, and as the owner, Barsūm was allowing 'obscenity and vice,' the resort will be bombed unless he pays the ransom.” The blackmail title was”[…]Upon this...
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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.