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Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2023
Cornelis Hulsman has known Dr. Pieter Berend Dirksen (1928-2022) since 1976. Dr. Dirksen noticed that Hulsman was interested in Muslim-Christian dialogue and encouraged him to develop his studies in this direction. Since Dr. Dirksen was an internationally acclaimed scholar of the Hebrew Bible/Old...
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2023
Rev. Dr. Eginhard Meijering offered reflections in the memorial service for Dr. Pieter Berend Dirksen (also known as Piet Dirksen) on January 14, 2023, in the Regenboog (rainbow) Church of Leiden. Rev. Dr. Meijering once was a student of Dr. Dirksen. They first came to know each other in 1959. In...
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2022
The Arab-West Report newsletter about the analysis of Dr. John Mearsheimer led to several angry responses. Mearsheimer puts the blame for the war on NATO. This should not be explained as an approval for the Russian war on Ukraine. Dutch physicist Dr. Evert du Marchie and Dutch Arabist and...
Date of source: Thursday, March 24, 2022
Russian state media makes all effort to justify the policies of Putin and hence employs propaganda. Where Ukraine and Western nations call this a war Russian media speak of an “operation.” In my previous article I wrote that Putin declared an operation on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, two days...
Date of source: Sunday, March 20, 2022
Throughout history, Russia and Ukraine have been allies and foes. No doubt they had indissociable bonds. In this article of former CAWU intern Valeria Bez we will see how the two nations evolved, what sort of relations shaped between them, and what the ethnic issue has to do with the war of 2022...
Date of source: Monday, June 7, 2021
The Israeli-Gaza conflict is part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which is a conflict fueled by conflicting ideologies and beliefs. Many religious Zionists base their political claims on Biblical prophesies such as Amos 9: 8-15, which promises the restoration of Israel. How can one read a text...
Date of source: Thursday, April 2, 2020
The Egyptian Moral Rearmament Association (EMRA) celebrated its thirtieth anniversary on the 29th and 30th of November 2019 in the Green Desert Hotel north west of Cairo. Sixty-four participants attended over the two days. It was attended by four generations. The EMRA is part of the international...
Date of source: Monday, February 22, 2010
This paper focuses on the issues of peace-building in Egypt. Using Johan Galtung’s methodology of conflict resolution following medical practice of diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy, this peacemaking project suggests better practices. The diagnosis is examining the problems and studying past cases...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
A paper focusing on the role of traditional reconciliation sessions in the Egyptian legal system, written to answer questions such as “Do reconciliation sessions have a relation to the law? If so, what is it? Are the examples of misuse highlighted by Copts aberrations of an overall beneficial...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Based on the lectures given at the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute symposium on de-radicalization and dis-engagement in December 2009 one of the CIDT interns, Vivien Molinengo wrote this paper on societal collapse and radicalization. He argues that the notion of societal collapse was a leitmotif...
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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.