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Date of source: Tuesday, March 24, 2026
As the war and regional escalation triggered by US-Israeli attacks on Iran on 28 February and followed by Iranian retaliation across the region continue to unfold, this review examines the responses by al-Azhar, one of the most influential Sunni Muslim religious institutions in the Middle East. Led...
Date of source: Thursday, March 5, 2026
On 1 March 2026, al-Jazeera Arabic published a report titled "ʿAlī Khāmeneʾī … Iran’s Supreme Leader Who Reconciled Gamāl ʿAbd al-Nāṣir and Sayyid Quṭb"by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAyyāsh, which offers an extensive biographical and political overview of ʿAlī Khāmeneʾī. From the current context of the killing...
Tweeting in Persian for the first time, Grand Imām of al-Azhar condemns "Zionist" aggression on Iran
Date of source: Friday, June 20, 2025
Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, published a tweet in Persian for the first time, condemning the ongoing Zionist aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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: Monday, August 16, 2021
On Sunday, Kabul once again fell under the control of the Taliban [Ṭālibān], as the movement began a new era of hard-line rule in the city, twenty years after their removal from power.
Today, regional and national voices warn of the consequences of Taliban's takeover of the government. Questions...
Date of source: Sunday, January 24, 2021
1. Anton Wessels, The Grand Finale. The Apocalypse in the Tanakh, the Gospel, and the Qur’an, Translated by Henry Jansen and Lucy Hofland, Wipf & Stock, Eugene, Oregon, 2020, 321 pp. Paperback $ 35 E-book $ 9.99 This English version is dedicated to Professor Saeid Edalatnejad of the...
Date of source: Sunday, November 8, 2020
Several Arab governments, specifically in the Gulf, are having a tough time dealing with the results of the American presidential elections as their favored candidate, Donald Trump, lost to Joe Biden, whose policies are expected to be more critical towards them.
Date of source: Monday, March 2, 2020
The Bahāʾī Faith is a monotheistic religion that affirms the spiritual unity of the human race, focusing on three pillars that form the foundation of its teachings.
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Throughout his life, AWR friend Henk Glimmerveen (1923-2020) showed that engaged citizens can make a difference.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 23, 2019
The talk of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz by the Iranian authorities was brought back after US President Donald Trump announced cancelation of the exemptions for the purchase of Iranian oil without sanctions.
The American declaration was met by Tehran with an escalation in the strait,...
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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.