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Emanuel Marx was an Israeli professor at Haifa University in Israel and director of the Israeli Academic Centre in Cairo during the 1990s. After the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty was signed on 26 March 1979, the two countries agreed on establishing this center in Cairo as to foster better...
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Two different subjects are addressed in the following recording: the restoration of the Hanging Church in Old Cairo, Egypt, and the Jordanian economist ʾUmayyah Ṭūqān’s views on the MENA summit in 1995.
Saint Virgin Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church, known as the Hanging Church was built...
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Two different subjects are addressed in the following recording, these are; Tourism development in Jordan; and development of water supply in Jordan, however, both press conferences are in the context of the then newly signed peace treaty with Israel and its political and economic...
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This is a press conference in the running – up to the third MENA conference in Cairo and the panel consists of Mr. Blood from the World Economic Forum, Farīd Munīr of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Dr. Peter Goepfrich, -Executive Director of the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce....
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Interviewer: Eline Kasanwidjojo
Language of interview: English (original interview), English (presented transcript)
Transcript: Eline Kasanwidjojo
Approval: Requested and no objection received
Dr. Kamāl al-Hilbāwī is a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood Guidance Council and MB foreign...
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ʿAbd al-Raʾūf al-Rawābdah (born 1939) is a Jordanian politician and became prime minister of Jordan in 1999. In the 1967 Six-Day War (otherwise known as the Arab-Israeli War), Israel overpowered Egypt, Jordan and Syria. It then occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem,...
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Opposition leader Mahmūd Jibrīl al-Warfalī discusses his viewpoints on the Libyan regime under Muʿammar al-Qadhāfī. The Lockerbie bombing in 1988 is brought up for discussion. Just days before the sabotage of the aircraft, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) had warned...
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2014
Maariv newspaper has reported on a Jewish girl that converted to Islam within the Green Line (Haytham Sulimān, al-Wafd, Jan. 12, p. 16).
Date of source: Wednesday, August 1, 2007
ʾAbū al-ʿAlā Māḍī was born in 1958 into a religious, Muslim family in Minia, Egypt. In 1996, he became the co-founder of Hizb al-Wasat (Center Party) which simultaneously signaled his break from the Muslim Brotherhood. The establishment of a political party with an Islamic background touches on a...
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2007
Dr. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Masīrī was born in 1938 in Damanhūr governorate, Egypt. In 1975 he took up a position as Advisor of Cultural Affairs to the Permanent Delegation of the Arab League to the United Nations in New York, which he held until 1979. However, he was not able to resume his earlier...
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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.