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Date of source: Monday, August 15, 2011
Prominent Islamist Sheikh Mohamed Amer has declared that Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, supreme commander of the Egyptian armed forces, should be considered "leader of the faithful" due to his current capacity as military ruler of the country.
Date of source: Saturday, June 25, 2011
Last week, an Amsterdam court found Dutch politican Geert Wilders not guilty of inciting hatred against Muslims. AWR Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman argues that Wilders' inflammatory statements about Islam should not be protected by Dutch law.
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Date of source: Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) highlighted today an article in Al-Jumhūrīyah of May 13, 2011 in which journalist Safā' Sālih wrote “that the Jews had orchestrated the clashes between the Muslims and the Copts [in Imbābah on May 7] in order to keep Egypt's youth from marching...
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2011
Thousands of Copts descended on the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in ‘Abbāssīyah, Cairo on Friday, May 6, in response to a Salafi Muslim demonstration at the same location a week earlier
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
Date of source: Sunday, April 3, 2011
AWR obtained a paper that was distributed on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 during protests by salafists in front of the Council of State, the Supreme Administrative court, demanding the release of Kāmīliyā Shihātah, a Christian woman who reportedly converted to Islam and was detained inside a church.
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Date of source: Monday, March 21, 2011
According to the Egyptian Government they are working on building a modern civil and democratic state where all Egyptians, including Copts, will enjoy the rights of citizenship. However, people fear that if such a state is not created, the military will go on ruling Egypt, or a religious state will...
Date of source: Monday, December 13, 2010
One dead and two injured in two explosions in Stockholm, Sweden's Capital on Saturday December 11, 2010. Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt described it as a "terrorist attack."
Before the attack, Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT) The Swedish News Agency, had received a threat e-mail about the...
Date of source: Monday, December 13, 2010
One was killed and two injured in two explosions in Stockholm, Sweden's capital on Saturday December 11, 2010. Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt describe the act as a 'terrorist attack'.
Before the attack, Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT) The Swedish News Agency, had received a threatening...
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2011
Khālid Muntasir writes about the alleged discovery that camel urine can be used to treat cancer.
In a mocking tone, Muntasir points out that many Arabs experienced a sense of achievement at such a discovery.
Muntasir alleges that some of this excitement is rooted in the fact that a Hadīth mentions...
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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.