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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...
Date of source: Monday, December 15, 2025
In December 2024, Egypt adopted a new domestic asylum law (Law No. 164 of 2024), establishing a national committee to manage refugee affairs and decide on asylum requests on a case-by-case basis within specific timeframes, under full judicial oversight. The law transfers responsibility for refugee...
Date of source: Monday, December 15, 2025
December 8th, 2025. One year has passed since al-Assad regime was overthrown after 53 years. In the days leading up to Liberation Day—the first anniversary of the fall of the former regime led by Bashār al-Assad—an indescribable sense of excitement fills the streets of Damascus. The new flag, now...
Date of source: Sunday, November 30, 2025
Dr. Evi Voulgaraki is a Lecturer in Missiology in the Department of Social Theology and Religious Sciences at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has completed graduate studies in Greece and Germany, specializing in missiology and interfaith and ecumenical relations. Dr....
Date of source: Sunday, November 23, 2025
Dr. Samuel Nwokoro is a lecturer in Islamic studies at the Theological College of Northern Nigeria located in the city of Jos. Dr. Nwokoro’s education includes a Ph.D. in Christian-Muslim relations and an M.A. in European religion from the University of Copenhagen, as well as B.A. and M.Th. from...
Date of source: Saturday, November 15, 2025
On October 30, 2025, the American University in Cairo hosted the 2025 Edward Said Memorial Lecture under the title "The Palestinians—from Orientalism to Extermination." The lecture was delivered by John Dugard, professor of international law and former United Nations Special Rapporteur to UNHCR.[1...
Date of source: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Rachel M. Scott is Chair of the Department of Religion and Culture and Professor of Islamic Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Her areas of research include Islamic political thought, modern Islamic law, constitutions, the role of religious scholars in Islam, personal status law,...
Date of source: Friday, October 10, 2025
In 2024, the Ministry of the Interior, then led by Gérald Darmanin (member of Renaissance, a political party typically described as liberal and centrist or center-right), commissioned a group of senior officials, more precisely a retired diplomat and a prefect, to conduct in-depth research on...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 7, 2025
In June 2025, I was able to gain valuable insight into the current situation in Syria after the fall of the Assad government by spending almost two weeks travelling and doing field research in the cities of Damascus, Maʿlūlā, Ṣaydnāyā, Aleppo, al-Raqqa, al-Qāmishlī, and al-Ḥasakah. With its rich...
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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.