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Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2011
Is the church in Egypt persecuted? Many Coptic Christians would answer in the affirmative. I definitely agree that the situation for Christians in Egypt has worsened but I do not agree using the word persecution before we have first agreed on a definition and compare facts on the ground with this...
Date of source: Monday, October 25, 2010
Over the last several weeks, controversial remarks by Bishop Bīshūy of Damietta and Islamic thinker Dr. Salīm al-‘Awwā have filled the pages of the Egyptian newspapers. AWR Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman provides a recap of the events....
Date of source: Sunday, December 27, 2009
Dutch journalist Eildert Mulder carried out a series of discussions and forums in cooperation with the Arab-West Report to discuss his book “De Omstreden Bronnen van de Islam” (The Contested Sources of Islam). He met with Muslim intellectuals Jamāl al-Bannā, Dr. Sayyid al-Qimnī and with Belgian...
Date of source: Sunday, July 5, 2009
Prominent academic translator Noureddine Zouitni gave a lecture at the Goethe Institute in Cairo and a workshop at CIDT. This is a report on the lecture and the workshop.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 23, 2002
Asharq al-Awsat reports that the statements of Hirsi Ali against Islām were seen by members of Muslim communities as a trick, deployed in order to gain asylum. Dutch journalist Eildert Mulder, who interviewed Ali, does not believe that this allegation is true
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
The speech of Drs. Cornelis Hulsman, director of the Center for Arab-West Understanding, on ’ Freedom of expression and respect for the other. How to respond if one is offended.’
Date of source: Monday, November 5, 2001
Introducing website and search program linked to RNSAW’s database. Media attention for RNSAW work.
Date of source: Saturday, December 24, 2005
Rajab al-Bannā believes that Islam is being attacked everywhere, citing examples from Denmark, The Netherlands and Australia.
Date of source: Thursday, December 1, 2005
This is a translation of an article about the work of the Center for Arab-West Understanding from the Dutch daily newspaper Trouw.
Editor AWR: This article is very sharp. Senior editor Eildert Mulder has used formulations that Hulsman would never have used, but this is related to Mulder’s own...
Date of source: Saturday, September 21, 2002
[The article of Muhammad Shebl in October, September 15, resulted in an article in the Dutch Daily Trouw]
While Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Dutch political scientist of Somali origin, received death threats because of her untraditional convictions about Islam, Egyptians discuss freedom of religion. This is...
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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.