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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: 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...
Date of source: Sunday, January 8, 2012
Authored by the Grand Imām, Dr. Aḥmed al-Ṭayyeb, this statement was published on January 8th, 2012, after the initial stages of the Arab Spring to clarify Al-Azhar's vision of basic human freedoms. It addresses the freedom of belief, the freedom of opinion and expression, the freedom of scientific...
Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2024
This interview was conducted with Mr. Fady Ghaṭṭās, publications director for the Alexandria School, on Tuesday, November 19th, at the Alexandria School offices in Heliopolis, Cairo. The interview covers some of the history of the Alexandria School, their publications, and aspects of their broader...
Date of source: Sunday, November 24, 2024
This article presents a critical survey of Dutch media commentary on the clashes around the football match between the Dutch Ajax and Maccabi-Tel Aviv clubs held on November 7th, 2024, in Amsterdam.
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“While our people were mostly looking overseas this week, other countries are now focused...
Date of source: Monday, October 14, 2024
Farewell speech for Professor Wolfram Reiss (University of Vienna)
I was born and raised in a conservative Christian Reformed family with beliefs such as the current state of Israel is the promised land for the Jews, negative perspectives on Islam, reading the Qur’an was wrong, the Catholic church...
Date of source: Monday, October 14, 2024
Muslim books on Christian mission for the Mikado library
Christianity In Africa: Missionaries and Change (African Society of Social Sciences: Tripoli, Libya, 1986).
Christian Missionarism and the Alienation of the African Mind (African Society of Social Sciences: Tripoli, Libya, 1986).
I bought...
Date of source: Monday, October 14, 2024
Background for the Mikado Library, the Katholiek Documentatie Centrum and the Historisch Documentatiecentrum voor het Nederlands Protestantisme.
This brief provides background to books and documents Cornelis Hulsman provided to the Mikado Library, Aachen, on October 10, 2024.
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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.