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Date of source: Friday, May 22, 2026
Rev. Dr. Yazīd Saʿīd is senior lecturer at Liverpool Hope University in the United Kingdom. Born into a Palestinian family in Galilee, he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA) and Cambridge University (BA, MPhil, PhD). An Anglican priest, Dr. Saʿīd is the author of Ghazālī’s Politics...
Date of source: Sunday, April 26, 2026
"Apostasie (Ridda - ردة)” in Chems-Eddine Hafiz (ed.), Musulmans En Occident : Pratique Cultuelle Immuable, Présence Adaptée (Paris: Grand Mosque of Paris/Albouraq Publishers, 2025), 94-95.
Summary: This is an English translation of the article on “apostasy” included in Musulmans En Occident :...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 21, 2026
A Jordanian researcher, consultant, and activist, Dr. Dīmā al-Karādsheh earned a Ph.D. in Sociology and an M.A. in Women’s Studies from the University of Jordan. Her expertise spans social safeguards, women’s rights and empowerment, gender-based violence, feminist theory, and Christian personal...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Dr. Martin Accad is the president of the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, Lebanon, where he serves as a professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations. He is also an affiliate professor of Islamic Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena (CA). Accad received his DPhil in...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 21, 2026
This interview was conducted by Luka Renić, editor for Dialogue Across Borders, with Dr. Wissām El-Laḥḥām in October 2025 as part of a wider DAB project on personal status laws in the Middle East. Dr. El-Lahham is a Lebanese scholar with a focus on constitutional law and political order. He has...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Gavin D’Costa is emeritus professor of Catholic theology at the University of Bristol (UK) and currently teaches at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. A leading Catholic scholar in interreligious relations and the theology of religions, his many books include The Meeting of...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 24, 2026
As of January 2026, Cairo and Giza shelter approximately 887,660 registered refugees from Sudan, Eritrea, Yemen, Syria, Ethiopia and other conflict‑affected countries. In contrast to camp settings, they are scattered across New Cairo, Badr, Nasr City, Ain Shams, Faisal, Haram, and the informal...
Date of source: Sunday, March 1, 2026
Rulings related to Women in Positions of Religious and Political Leadership: Summary and Translation
Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2026
Rulings related to Women in Positions of Religious and Political Leadership: Summary and Translation
Excerpted from "Fatwas and Rulings on Women in Islam" (Fatāwā wa-aḥkām al-marʾa fī al-islām, Cairo: Dār al-Iftāʾ al-Miṣriyya, 2025)
By H.E. Dr. Naẓīr Muḥammad ʿAyyād – The Grand Muftī of Egypt...
Date of source: Sunday, February 15, 2026
On January 31st, 2026, a team from the Center for Arab-West Understanding visited the 2026 Cairo International Book Fair located in the suburbs of Cairo. Two of our team, Ḥabība al-Ganāynī and Menna al-Maʿaz, visited Al-Azhar’s “fatwā corner” in Hall 4 at the book fair which allowed people to...
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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.