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Date of source: Thursday, November 27, 2025
Mediterranean Bonds that Unite Us: Dialogues on Shared Heritage and Cooperation
From the 21st to the 23rd of October 2025, Bibliotheca Alexandrina hosted the First Edition of the AlexMed Cultural Forum: Mediterranean Bonds that Unite Us organized by AlexMed in collaboration with the Anna Lindh...
Date of source: Sunday, May 4, 2025
The European Alliance in Defense of Palestinian Detainees first invited Cornelis Hulsman as a speaker at their conference in international support of Palestinian prisoners and detainees on September 30 and October 1, 2023. In 2024 no physical annual conference was organized. On May 3-4, 2025, the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 4, 2025
On June 4, Studenten Internationale Betrekkingen (SIB) in Leiden, https://sibleiden.nl/, invited three former members to speak about their careers with references to their time as members of the SIB Leiden student society. One of the speakers became a diplomat, now serving at the Dutch Embassy in...
Date of source: Monday, November 25, 2024
In July 2024, the Arab-West Foundation was elected Head of the Dutch Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation. They organized their first Dutch network meeting on November 25th where, among other things, they spoke about the need to contribute to peace-building in the Middle East. This applies first of...
Date of source: Saturday, August 17, 2019
For the first time in years we had one of our student interns questioned and detained by Egyptian police for one day which has resulted in questions from a number of our relations. It all turned out to be a very unfortunate misunderstanding, but it nevertheless was very unpleasant for our student....
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The Center for Arab-West Understanding had faced numerous obstacles from the moment the founders wanted to establish the organization in 2004, despite its lofty goal of facilitating understanding between communities in Egypt and the Arab World and the West, through producing material for Arab-Wes
Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2017
The new Egyptian NGO law was widely criticized in different media and as a consequence we received questions about the status of the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) in relation to the new law. The following constitutes Dr. Hulsman's response.
Date of source: Thursday, April 7, 2011
A meeting sponsored by the Anna Lindh foundation and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations was just held on 6 April 2011 at the headquarters of the Arab League. It is part of a forum seeking to explore how Arab-West relations could be built differently in the next decade, taking into...
Date of source: Friday, February 11, 2011
President Mubarak resigned today. We have witnessed much of the events leading up to his resignation showing that reporting in the West provided a biased image. Images of Tahrir Square dominated most media since January 25 but little was reported about other parts of the country.
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Date of source: Saturday, November 15, 2008
In recent years the tensions between Christians and Muslims in Egypt have increased. In many cases Christians have been victims of violence. Is there any chance that religions can live together peacefully in the land of Nile? This is the question that Cornelis Hulsman sought to answer in his paper...
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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.