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Date of source: Saturday, September 26, 2020
Introduction:
Inclusive citizenship seeks to go beyond the intellectual debates of recent years on democratization and participation to explore a related set of issues around changing conceptions of citizenship. Peoples’ understandings of what it means to be a citizen go to the heart of various...
Date of source: Saturday, September 26, 2020
This is the transcript of the presentation H.E. Bishop Dr. Yohanna Qulta (84) gave at the Webinar on Inclusive Citizenship on September 26, 2020. This transcript was made by Shady Saleh elSherif. Before Bishop Qulta became a priest he was teaching philosophy at Cairo University, Egypt. He is a...
Date of source: Thursday, August 25, 2022
Mr. Bas Belder was between 1999 and 2019 one of the very few members in the European Parliament showing an active interest in the position of Christians in the Middle East. He is to be complimented for his genuine interest in Christians in the Middle East but the sources he used in his paper for...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Our students met on-line with Dr. Renee Hattar, since October 2016 the head of International Studies at the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies in Jordan, founded in 1994 by HRH Prince el-Hassan bin-Talal of Jordan. RIIFS describes itself as “a non-profit, non-governmental organization that...
Date of source: Thursday, March 2, 2023
Following six years of work, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has launched the “Map of Religious Freedoms” that will serve as a reference for all matters relating to freedom of religion and belief, and violations of this right. The information from the interactive map covers the time...
Date of source: Friday, February 3, 2023
The embassies of the United States of America, France, Germany and Italy have warned the Swedish, Dutch, Danish and Finnish embassies of retaliatory attacks against nationals following instances of burnings of the Qurʾān in front of Turkish embassies by Swedish and Dutch nationals. These acts have...
Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2023
Omar Marwān, the Egyptian Minister for Justice, has affirmed President al-Sīsī’s dedication to eliminating slow litigation processes and achieving justice, as well as his desire for the judicial sector to benefit from technological developments to improve the quality of its services. During an...
Date of source: Sunday, February 12, 2023
Sinai University has summoned Maī ʿAbdullah, a dentistry student in the first grade, to be investigaed on charges of contempt of religion, after she has been accused of insulting the prophet Mūḥammad, and mocking the ḥijāb and heaven, as well as adherents of Islam. The dean of the faculty of...
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2023
Dr. Ibrāhīm Najm, a senior advisor to Egypt’s Grand Muftī, has reviewed the efforts of the Dar al-Iftāʾ in combating extremism, during a meeting with a delegation from the European Parliament, led by Tomáš Zdechovský. He cited the various initiatives enacted by the Dar al-Iftāʾ to confront...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Sūlāf Darwīsh, the Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives’ Manpower Committee, has praised comments made by the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, about the misuse of the term ‘freedoms’ by the West. Dr. al-Ṭayyīb had stated that the world was in need of religion to help solve...
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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.