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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: Saturday, September 26, 2020
Inclusive Citizenship is a dream of many people in our world today. The definition of inclusive citizenship, as I understand it, is the granting of full rights of citizenship to all people regardless of their religion, ethnicity, gender, color, socio-economic status etc. It signifies not just...
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
Dr. Tarek al-Gawhary, MA Azhar University, PhD Princeton University, advisor to Sheikh Dr. Ali Goma’a. explained the thought process in Islamic Law and how a Muslim jurist can think about the concept of inclusive citizenship in a historical context. The basis is in the Constitution of Medina or the...
Date of source: Monday, February 3, 2025
The Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism stated in an article published in Italian that global awareness of Israeli crimes in Palestine is growing, as peoples around the world reject violations targeting unarmed civilians, particularly women and children.
Date of source: Monday, February 3, 2025
A member of Egypt’s Senate’s Cultural Committee stated that scientific research can help address societal challenges such atheism, extremism and homosexuality, in addition to contributing to sectors like agriculture and industry.
Date of source: Monday, January 27, 2025
During a ceremony held at the Maronite patriarchal headquarters, Maronite patriarch Bechāra Rāʿī presented Marwān Ṣeḥnaūī, president of the Lebanese Association of the Knights of Malta, with the Saint Maron medal, the highest distinction of the Maronite Church, in recognition of his exceptional...
Author of a controversial book withdrawn from CIBF says al-Azhar had nothing to do with the decision
Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
The author of a controversial book that was taken down from the Cairo International Book Fair 2025 denied that al-Azhar or the General Egyptian Book Organization (GEBO) had anything to do with the decision, noting her publication has come under a “fierce campaign.”
Date of source: Monday, February 3, 2025
Al-Sirāj Publishing House decided to withdraw the book ‘Kāmilāt ʿAql wa Dīn’ (Complete in Reason & Religion) by author Asmā’ ʿOthmān al-Sharqāwī from the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) 2025.
Date of source: Monday, January 27, 2025
The Azhar’s pavilion at the 56th Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) hosted a symposium on Sunday, January 27, titled “Palestine ... History of a Nation and Struggle of a People,” in which several scholars from Al-Azhar led discussion, addressing the historical and religious significance of...
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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.