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Date of source: Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Dr. Pink presented her paper on teaching ethics and values in Egyptian schools at the international conference of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) at Vilnus University, Lithuania, April 9-12, 2003. Egyptian schools strongly promote nationalism and development with an emphasis of...
Date of source: Thursday, April 3, 2003
The author comments on the effect of the war in Iraq on Muslims in France. He believes that the French anti-war attitude has reconciled their religious and national identities.
Date of source: Friday, March 21, 2003
The author argues that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict cannot be stripped of its Islamic religious dimension. He explains what he means by the Islamic dimension of the conflict and whether it means marginalizing the national Palestinian dimension.
Date of source: Thursday, March 27, 2003
Dr. Lawrence Levine, professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, New York, US, and an Orthodox Jew, comments on the article “The lie of the awaited Messiah,” published in Al-Ahram Al-Arabi. He explains whether the article represents the consensus among Orthodox Jews.
Date of source: Saturday, March 8, 2003
Overview of the belief of the awaited Messiah in the Jewish faith. The author believes that the Jewish history is a struggle between mere religious faith on the one hand and the idea that aims at establishing a nation by the awaited Messiah on the other hand.
Date of source: Saturday, March 8, 2003
The difference between the Israeli and Egyptian press in reporting news related to the Palestinian and Israeli attacks reflect the polarization taking place. A major difference is in reporting and selecting news and quotes. That is most remarkable in the way the Palestinian condemnation of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 4, 2003
The Egyptian weekly Akher Saa published a number of articles with the title: “They sow hatred, malice and war.” [AWR, 2003, week 4, art. 26; week 6, art. 33; week 7, art. 37] The ‘they´ in the title refers to Israelis and Jews. Akher Saa lifts out negative statements on Arabs and Islam from Israeli...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 12, 2003
The US policy in the Middle East is based on the religious belief “the second birth” that relies on the second coming of Christ, which requires the return of all Jews to Israel. The Bush Administration is the most committed US Administration to this belief since the Reagan Administration.
Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2003
The 14th Islamic Fiqh Conference issued a fatwa to the effect that it is illegal to support aggressors against Iraq. However, the final statement of the conference does not express any clear-cut stand towards martyrdom operations.
Date of source: Monday, August 1, 2005
Thomas Friedman argues that most political parties in the Middle East have given up their founding principles.
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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.