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Date of source: Sunday, May 24, 2026
Based on participant observation and interviews with two bawwābīn in al-Munīra neighborhood of Cairo, this report examines the position of doormen in contemporary urban Egypt. By following the experiences of bawwābīn Wā’il and ʿAīd, the paper shows how the boundaries between work and private life...
Date of source: Sunday, October 19, 2025
On Wednesday, October 15th, DAB editor Luka Renić and CAWU intern Bart Evers had an opportunity to attend the Mawlid of Sayyid Aḥmad al-Badawī in Ṭanṭa, Egypt. This unique opportunity provided us with insights into Egyptian Sufi practices through firsthand observations and interactions with...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 23, 2025
According to some New Testament accounts (cf. Matthew 2), when a group of wise men from the East declared Jesus to be the next Jewish king, King Herod of Judea decided to pursue him to prevent this. An angel warned Joseph to leave Bethlehem and flee to Egypt with the Virgin Mary and Jesus....
Date of source: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
From May 21 to 25, Cornelis Hulsman, initiator and founder of the Center for Arab-West Understanding; Luka Renić, DAB editor and CAWU internship coordinator; and CAWU interns Jacob Snow and Ruben van der Vlag conducted a field trip to the Sūhāg Governorate of Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, March 10, 2025
In March 2025, I had the opportunity to visit Shubra during the Epiphany celebrations and see a number of churches belonging to different Christian denominations, hidden in the alleys of the district, among them the Church of Saint Mina, the Church of Saint George, St. Mark’s Catholic Cathedral,...
Date of source: Sunday, June 8, 2025
On May 28th, 2025, the Ismāʿīliya appellate court in northern Egypt issued a controversial judgment related to a property dispute concerning St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula. The judgment triggered strong reactions across the Greek Orthodox community and broader Christian world and...
Date of source: Saturday, August 17, 2024
Arab-West-Journal (AWJ) was an excellent attempt by our forner editor Jenna Ferrecchia to develop a journal to publish original work composed primarily by our undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate interns, with other contributions from staff and notable authors. EBSCO showed interest to add...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Cornelis Hulsman is from a conservative Christian Reformed family in the Netherlands but developed a fascination for the Coptic Orthodox Church. He became a member in 1985. Many stories of Christian persecution in Muslim countries come from the Dutch Christian organization Open Doors, which has an...
Date of source: Monday, September 26, 2022
On Monday of September the 5th, a special event in anticipation of COP27 took place in American University of Cairo (AUC) under the name of "COP27 and Beyond: Climate Policy and Inclusive Development". It was the second event in a series of events dedicated to the climate change topic that will end...
Date of source: Sunday, September 11, 2022
Prof. Dr. Hassan Wagieh [Ḥassan Wajīh] is a Professor Emeritus, Linguistics Department, Faculty of Languages, at the prestigious Azhar University in Egypt. Prof. Wajīh is a long-time friend of Cornelis Hulsman, editor-in-chief of Arab-West Report/Dialogue Across Borders. In April 2022 Hulsman...
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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.