Date of source: Saturday, August 23, 2025
The current crisis in the Būdshīshiyya association [zāwiya] has raised many deep questions about the nature of administrative intervention in Ṣūfi affairs and whether some of the sides are exploiting royal directives and holy authority for commanding the faithful believers to achieve objectives...
Date of source: Thursday, July 3, 2025
With Freedom of Expression and Opinion we cannot avoid the spread of harmful misinformation and disinformation. We believe that the method of the Dialogue Across Borders database can form the basis to address misinformation and disinformation systematically. The side session in which I presented by...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Is religion or the power of reason the only source of ethics?
In just one decisive word, the Grand Imām of al-Azhar settles in favor of religion, stating that the power of the mind is a source of ethics on the grounds that the latter is changing and human.
Date of source: Sunday, June 8, 2025
On May 28th, 2025, the Ismāʿīliya appellate court in northern Egypt issued a controversial judgment related to a property dispute concerning St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula. The judgment triggered strong reactions across the Greek Orthodox community and broader Christian world and...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
A man of Turkish descent who burned a copy of the Holy Qur’ān outside the Turkish consulate in London was convicted of a "religiously aggravated public order offense."
Date of source: Thursday, May 8, 2025
A dialogue can be and should be in the first place a source of pleasure. If conducted in a pleasant atmosphere it can be very useful and lead to surprising results.
The Anna Lindh Foundation’s objective to stimulate dialogue between people from the MENA area and Europe is both excellent and much...
Date of source: Sunday, May 4, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump sparked a wave of criticism after posting an AI-generated image of himself wearing white papal robes and pointing skyward on his Truth Social platform. The post was released after he had ironically stated that he wanted to become the next pope. The joke comes at a...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Following the murder of a young Muslim in a mosque in the Gard region of southern France, the French Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, has been accused of stirring up hatred against Muslims, particularly by the left, which has protested against the minister's "double standards." The...
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.