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Date of source: Thursday, August 25, 2022
Mr. Bas Belder was between 1999 and 2019 one of the very few members in the European Parliament showing an active interest in the position of Christians in the Middle East. He is to be complimented for his genuine interest in Christians in the Middle East but the sources he used in his paper for...
Date of source: Sunday, May 11, 2025
Dr. Samuel Rubenson is Professor Emeritus of Church History and affiliated with the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University in Sweden. After spending much of his childhood in Ethiopia, he has dedicated his career to the study of Eastern Christianity, with special attention to...
Date of source: Thursday, May 8, 2025
A dialogue can be and should be in the first place a source of pleasure. If conducted in a pleasant atmosphere it can be very useful and lead to surprising results.
The Anna Lindh Foundation’s objective to stimulate dialogue between people from the MENA area and Europe is both excellent and much...
Date of source: Monday, May 5, 2025
In light of the personal nature of these reflections on the legacy of Pope Francis, this content is open access.
With deep sorrow and heartfelt grief, I have received the news of the death of Pope Francis. He was a sincere voice of wisdom, compassion, courage and acceptance of his fellow...
Date of source: Friday, April 25, 2025
(The full text is presented here for the friends and family of Professor Abdallah Schleifer and our readers.)
On March 27th, our longtime friend and passionate supporter of intercultural and interreligious dialogue, Abdallah Schleifer, Senior Fellow at the Arab-West Foundation, passed away in...
Date of source: Sunday, April 6, 2025
In the field of international relations (IR), many assumptions underpin the understanding of the global order. A prevalent assumption holds that the world has long operated under a hegemonic system, primarily led by the United States. This perspective posits that global politics is dominated by a...
Date of source: Saturday, April 5, 2025
This paper examines marriage and wedding customs and regulations in Egypt, with a focus on the traditions practiced by Coptic Orthodox Christians and Muslims in the village of Isnīt, located in Markaz Kaft Shukr in the Qalyūbiyya province of Lower Egypt. It explores the similarities and differences...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Sara ʿAllām Shaltout worked as the Christian affairs editor for the newspaper al-Yawm al-Sābiʿ from 2015-2020, a position usually reserved for Egyptian Christians. The fact that she was entrusted with this position as a Muslim is a testament to her independent thought and objective journalism. In...
Date of source: Sunday, March 9, 2025
A translator and scholar of Islamic studies, Dr. Mykhaylo Yakubovych is a postdoctoral researcher with the Global Qurʾān Project at the University of Freiburg. He is the author of The Kingdom and the Qurʾān: Translating the Holy Book of Islam in Saudi Arabia (2024), translator of the first complete...
Date of source: Sunday, January 26, 2025
Dr. Norman Russell is an Orthodox theologian and patristics scholar. He is the author and translator of many important works on Eastern Orthodoxy, including The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2004), Theosis and Religion (Cambridge University Press...
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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.