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Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
A French law banning niqāb in public has led to Muslim clamor as well as a collapse in French president Nicolas Sarkozy's popularity; recent polls now predict his failure during the next elections.
Date of source: Sunday, March 21, 2010
This article focuses on the story of an Armenian orphanage during the 1915 Armenian genocide in Turkey. Many children whose parents were killed were sent to an orphanage near Beirut, where they were beaten, malnourished, and forced to convert to Islam. Many of these children died there.
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2010
Al-Wafd interviews Dr. ‘Alī al-Sammān, former counselor to the president, asking about reasons and solutions for fitnah in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and Greece are the European countries which experience the largest number of legal and illegal immigrants from places like Africa and the Middle East. Despite of the vital role played by immigrant communities in the development of national production in many European...
Date of source: Friday, February 12, 2010
The article sheds light on the new leadership of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR).
Date of source: Sunday, February 7, 2010
This article deals with the delicate issue of the wearing of the Niqab in France. Most in France disagree with the wearing of this certain veil because they fear it is a forced wearing by Islamic society, but is not actually the choice of the women wearing. The disagreements are fierce, and even...
Date of source: Sunday, January 31, 2010
The Nag Hammadi sectarian crime which took place on Coptic Christmas Eve, 6 January, and which left six Copts dead and nine wounded, triggered wide protest and rallies by Copts in places as wide apart as Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Athens and Sydney. Mary Joseph sent Watani live...
Date of source: Sunday, January 17, 2010
Le Monde reports on the French government expelling a radical Islamist cleric for sermons which they deemed to be inciting violence. The preacher will now return to his native Egypt, although no information is given as to what will happen to him there.
Date of source: Sunday, August 30, 2009
Heading in the opposite direction to France, some British local councils hold swimming sessions restricted to those wearing the ‘Burkini’ Islamic swimming costume.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
A De-radicalization Conference was held on 2-3 December 2009 in the Golden Tulip Flamingo Hotel, Cairo. The conference was hosted by the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute. About 12 papers were presented, mostly by Egyptians, but with contributions from Norway, Denmark and the United Kingdom. In...
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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.