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Date of source: Saturday, September 13, 2025
The leadership of the Coptic Orthodox Church asserts greater accuracy in determining the number of Copts in Egypt than the official state authority, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), or national demographic surveys. Their claim rests on the argument that local...
Date of source: Sunday, August 31, 2025
Khalīl Ṣāyegh was born into a Christian family in Gaza in 1994 at the height of the Oslo peace process. In 2009, he moved to the West Bank where he studied at the Bethlehem Bible College, earning a B.A. in 2018. In 2022, he completed an M.A. in comparative politics at the American University in...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
From May 21 to 25, Cornelis Hulsman, initiator and founder of the Center for Arab-West Understanding; Luka Renić, DAB editor and CAWU internship coordinator; and CAWU interns Jacob Snow and Ruben van der Vlag conducted a field trip to the Sūhāg Governorate of Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
An important part of data collection for Arab-West Report/Dialogue Across Borders was through regular visits Cornelis Hulsman, founding director of CIDT (2005-2022), organized to different parts of Egypt, mostly with student interns he supervised. Through this method, education and database...
Date of source: Monday, August 4, 2025
The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as Rojava, is a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria that gained its de facto autonomy in 2012 in the context of the Rojava conflict and the broader Syrian Civil War. Rojava is marked by ethnic and religious...
Date of source: Sunday, August 3, 2025
In recent decades, the concept of taqiyya has become a prominent component of Islamophobic discourse in Western societies about the dangers posed by Islam and Muslims. According to this understanding, taqiyya is a doctrinal position in Islamic law which permits or even encourages Muslims to lie...
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: Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Last week, our interns came together for a field trip around Old Cairo, led by Luka Renić, our internship coordinator. To set us up for a long, hot day of walking, we began by fueling ourselves with a traditional (baladi) street breakfast in the ʿĀbdīn neighborhood of Downtown Cairo. Eating fūl (...
Date of source: Monday, March 10, 2025
In March 2025, I had the opportunity to visit Shubra during the Epiphany celebrations and see a number of churches belonging to different Christian denominations, hidden in the alleys of the district, among them the Church of Saint Mina, the Church of Saint George, St. Mark’s Catholic Cathedral,...
Date of source: Friday, July 18, 2025
This paper analyzes three episodes taken from series produced for the month of Ramaḍān in Egypt in the years 2024 and 2025. Every year during Ramaḍān, a variety of programs are broadcast on national television that explain passages taken from the Qurʾān, explore Islamic beliefs, and offer guidance...
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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.