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Date of source: Saturday, September 21, 2002
[The article of Muhammad Shebl in October, September 15, resulted in an article in the Dutch Daily Trouw] While Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Dutch political scientist of Somali origin, received death threats because of her untraditional convictions about Islam, Egyptians discuss freedom of religion. This is...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 9, 2002
Media attention for RSNAW work.
Report on the TV discussion about Arabs living abroad and developing an Arab lobby.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 11, 2002
The author questions why we are unable to help the Palestinians. He believes it is because of the weakness of the intellectuals who have dominated our cultural life. Many concepts are undefined and there is a shortage of imams.
Date of source: Sunday, May 12, 2002
Changing the way prayers are called for is part of reforming the religious discourse. In the past prayers were called for by gentle voices and without loudspeakers. Now, they are called for by harsh voices and through loud speakers. People asked whether they could listen to prayer calls through a...
Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2002
The year report of 2001 including an overview of the special reports written for the RNSAW. The year 2001 was marked by a strong increase in the number of special reports, providing readers with information that is not available elsewhere.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 11, 2005
A one-of-a-kind mosque opened its doors last week in Amsterdam. The mosque is for women only and is considered the first of its kind in the entire history of Islam.
Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2005
‘Amr Adīb, Jindī said during an interview with Orbit channel that if he had his own way and would stand in the shoes of some senior state official, he would ban nearly half of the songs of Umm Kulthoum [a late popular Egyptian singer] due to their “libertine” lyrics.
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2004
A participant in one of the seminars held in the Ibn Khaldoun Center under the title "Renewing the religious discourse." said that Islamic thought needed another Luther " like the prophet." A member of the Center declared that he refuses religiousness based on the sayings of Prophet Muhammad,...
Date of source: Monday, May 10, 2004
The phenomenon of the new preachers who were imposed on us as muftis is worthy of thorough examination. We need to know where those preachers received their training and how many accredited books each of them has authored? We need to know whether a preacher is able to give fatwas. Everybody has the...
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 2004
The Ibn Khaldoun Center is nowadays spreading its opinions through a series of seminars it organized under the title “Renewing Religious Discourse.” The center puts forward suspicious ideas declaring that the Islamic thought needs to be reformed because it is not based on a valid logic. Al-Liwaa’...
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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.