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Date of source: Thursday, July 10, 2014
Egypt is a deeply polarized society and we, both the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation, and the Center for Arab-West Understanding, do not in any way want to defend one particular partisan cause. Our purpose is to create an understanding of the developments taking place in Egypt, to...
Date of source: Monday, June 23, 2014
It is, unfortunately, not uncommon for people to make efforts to discredit their opponents with distortions and lies. It becomes even more questionable if people who make false claims want to remain anonymous. The author must be someone who knows several things about me. That makes an anonymous...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 17, 2013
We are living in a world of much polarization. This negative energy drives communities apart rather than combining their strengths to work together towards a better society. Arab-West Report was founded in 1997 to fight this negative energy. We are small and thus work only developed slowly but in...
Date of source: Thursday, June 20, 2013
The previous newsletter reflected the widespread fear for militias. The newsletter was primarily based on an interview by Jayson Casper with an Egyptian journalist in Assiut, who has evidence of militia activity in Assiut.
Date of source: Thursday, January 3, 2013
Arab-West Report would like to wish its readers a blessed 2013.Truth searching is difficultWe are living in a world were sensational reporting is given priority over truth. The search for truth has become irrelevant to many who report on Muslim-Christian or Islamist-non-Islamist relations. Being...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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Date of source: Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Numerous newspapers decided not to have an issue for several days protesting the Constitutional Declaration and final draft Constitution announced by President Muhammad Mursī in November 2012. From these newspapers: al-Misrī al-Yawm, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, al-Watan, al-Sabāh, al-Tahrīr, al-Yawm al-...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Dr. Khālid al-Sa'īd, spokesperson of the salafī front, denounced accusing salafists of storming a Church-owned land affiliated to the Shubrā al-Khaymah Archdiocese and calling to perform prayer in it. He was surprised from circulating these false news, according to him. While Dr. 'Isām Dirbālah,...
Date of source: Saturday, September 15, 2012
CAIRO, Egypt (AWR) -- Crowds of angry protesters continued to gather for a second straight day outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Wednesday, denouncing a short, obscure online film produced in America that denounces the Prophet Muhammad and insults Islam. Similar protests in Benghazi, Libya,...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 29, 2012
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AWR) – I have recently received phone calls from Coptic friends who were jubilant about President Muhammad Mursi (Mursī) nominating the Copt Samir Marcos (Samīr Marqus) as assistant-president for democratic change. More phone calls later followed informing me about the...
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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.