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Date of source: Sunday, June 15, 2025
Renowned media figure Ibrāhīm ʿĪsa said that the war is raging, missiles and shells are being launched, and the bullets ringing in the Middle East sky are being heard by all citizens of the region.
Date of source: Sunday, June 8, 2025
On May 28th, 2025, the Ismāʿīliya appellate court in northern Egypt issued a controversial judgment related to a property dispute concerning St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula. The judgment triggered strong reactions across the Greek Orthodox community and broader Christian world and...
Date of source: Sunday, May 4, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump sparked a wave of criticism after posting an AI-generated image of himself wearing white papal robes and pointing skyward on his Truth Social platform. The post was released after he had ironically stated that he wanted to become the next pope. The joke comes at a...
Date of source: Sunday, April 27, 2025
Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism hailed the "swift" measures by Iranian authorities regarding a show on Iranian TV’s Channel 1, which contained insults against the Sunni Muslim sanctities.
Date of source: Friday, April 25, 2025
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On March 27th, our longtime friend and passionate supporter of intercultural and interreligious dialogue, Abdallah Schleifer, Senior Fellow at the Arab-West Foundation, passed away in...
Author of a controversial book withdrawn from CIBF says al-Azhar had nothing to do with the decision
Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
The author of a controversial book that was taken down from the Cairo International Book Fair 2025 denied that al-Azhar or the General Egyptian Book Organization (GEBO) had anything to do with the decision, noting her publication has come under a “fierce campaign.”
Date of source: Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Dr. Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Bayyūmī, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, convened a meeting to outline the council’s participation in the 56th session of the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) 2025, scheduled to run from January 24 to February 5.
Date of source: Friday, December 20, 2024
The discussion began on Facebook pages when a Catholic user prayed for Mary’s “tears,” whilst other non-Catholics commented and wondered about the meaning of this supplication, which then led to conversations about other matters related to the Virgin Mary. The contents of the debate are presented...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Armenian Catholic Bishop of Damascus George Asʿadūryān said he met with officials from the “new authority” in Syria and received assurances about Christians, asserting “there are no threats posted to Christians at present as the situation is currently quiet.”
Date of source: Friday, November 29, 2024
The Evangelical Synod of the Nile’s Media and Publishing Council, in association with the Ibrahīmīa Media Center, held a symposium titled ‘Women’s Message in the Church’ at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (ESC) in the Cairo district of al-ʿAbbāsīya.
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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.