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Date of source: Monday, May 31, 2021
The Refugee Leadership Training Project was initiated by the Center for Arab-West Understanding with support by EO Metterdaad in 2019 with a mission to support community development amongst refugees in Cairo. The RLT project commenced in February 2020 and was completed in spring 2021. The project...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 4, 2018
1. What did you learn in the workshop?
Regularly following the news, I have always understood biased reporting, but when it comes to education, I think it was an eye-opening to see how different or dominant narratives could have an impact, not just in teaching about political history as I...
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The paper aims at presenting the religious education at the German School in Cairo (DEO) as one of the very few examples of schools offering interreligious education in Egypt. In order to give the cooperative religious education at DEO a fair examination,
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2018
1. Should intercultural dialogue emphasize cultural differences, similarities, or give equal attention to both? Please explain your answer.
I still think a certain balance is needed, but when it comes to explaining similarities in a shallow way this could be problematic, for instance saying that...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Nour Saad is Egyptian, a former student at the DEO, studies political science and sociology in Germany, and interned between March 1 and April 2, 2020, with the Center for Arab-West Understanding where she wrote a report about the cooperative religious education at the German Evangelical...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 24, 2026
The Tafkīr (Thinking) Salon organized its 10th seminar as part of its cultural season.
The gathering coincided with the centenary of the publication of the most controversial book in modern Arab culture—'On 'Pre-Islamic Poetry'—by the dean of Arabic literature, Ṭaha Ḥusseīn.
The seminar, moderated...
Date of source: Saturday, June 13, 2026
Egyptian intellectual and diplomat Muṣṭafā al-Fiqī affirmed that al-Azhar represents one of Egypt’s most important sources of soft power at both the regional and international levels, stressing that its influence extends beyond national borders, as it plays a significant role in the Islamic world...
Date of source: Sunday, May 24, 2026
Based on participant observation and interviews with two bawwābīn in al-Munīra neighborhood of Cairo, this report examines the position of doormen in contemporary urban Egypt. By following the experiences of bawwābīn Wā’il and ʿAīd, the paper shows how the boundaries between work and private life...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 24, 2025
The Christian student started wearing the ḥijāb in the morning for school and also in the evening for her lessons.
"I just kept wearing it throughout the day, since I had the same teachers and classmates," she explained, becoming so covered that "no one knew I was Christian anymore."
Maryam did not...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 28, 2026
The International Conference "Alexandria and the West: Church History and Geography," which took place between 24 and 26 April 2026 in the conference hall of the Patriarchal Library, was concluded successfully in Alexandria.
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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.