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Date of source: Tuesday, October 24, 2017
As a follow-up to my interview with a Cairene Protestant pastor, I asked Cornelis Hulsman, Editor-in-Chief of Arab-West Report, for an interview on pious fraud. “I first learned about the term Pious Fraud from my long-time friend Dr. Otto Meinardus, German scholar and former pastor of the Maadi...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Arab-West Report talked to an Egyptian pastor about the situation of Christian Communities in Egypt. Our interview partner, who prefers not to be mentioned by name, is an Egyptian who has been living for several years abroad and returned to Egypt to work for the benefit of the Christian community...
Date of source: Monday, May 15, 2017
I had the pleasure of meeting Brother Mathieu Grenier, a 31 year old French seminarian in Cairo, given that becoming more acquainted with Islam is part of his studies. He is a member of the Missionaries of Divine Mercy in the parish of Toulon, France. Toulon is a city with a very high percentage of...
Date of source: Monday, February 8, 2016
Three years ago, on February 27, 2013, we interviewed Aḥmad Ashūsh in our office. These were the days of President Muhammad Mursī and we then made efforts to understand the motivations of the different people involved various Islamists movements. Aḥmad Ashūsh was arrested in October 2013 for the...
Date of source: Saturday, February 6, 2016
Thousands of young people from Western countries have gone to Syria during recent years to fight under the black flag of what Prof. Schleifer calls “the most brutal and threateningly successful jihadist group, calling itself the Islamic State.” The British Tony Blair Foundation recently published a...
Date of source: Thursday, December 31, 2015
The questions were formulated by Judith Bravenboer and Arnold Dekker for a VWO school research project (Lodensteincollege -6VWO) in Amersfoort, The Netherlands) based on information found in primarily Dutch media and an internet search. They contacted Dr. Willem Jan de Wit who teaches at the...
Date of source: Thursday, December 17, 2015
While Egypt has a long and diverse history of immigration from Africa, the Middle East and even Europe, Chinese immigrants are still a relatively recent and rare phenomena on the Nile. Over the past ten to fifteen years, however, fuelled through the economic rise of China and consequently the...
Date of source: Thursday, November 12, 2015
Customary law, commonly referred to as (ʿUrfī [Urfi] Law), is a set of rules and procedures used by local arbitrators, for reconciliation and conflict resolution. Urfi law is resorted to by local communities in mostly non-metropolitan areas where it is held that the judicial system is not an...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Dr. Mahmoud Khayyal is a sharp critic of Islamism, Islam and every claim to absolute truth. Tobias Lebens interviewed him for Arab-West Report.
Date of source: Thursday, November 19, 2015
Yesterday I received the unexpected news that Ezzat al-Salamony (ʿIzzat al-Salāmunī) died ... back in August. He was a leader in al-Gama'a al-Islamiya (the Islamic Group), designated a terrorist entity by the United States. I was able to interview him a couple of times.
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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.