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The sales corner of al-Azhar’s pavilion at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina International Book Fair witnessed a remarkable turnout of researchers and visitors, coinciding with the spotlight on one of its most prominent historical and scholarly...
Professor Michael Reimer has taught history at The American University in Cairo (AUC) since 1990. His courses have explored state and society in the modern Middle East, the history of U.S. engagement with the governments and peoples of the Middle...
Dr. Jason Welle is assistant professor of comparative theology at Boston College. His areas of academic interest include Christian-Muslim relations, Islamic mysticism, the Franciscan tradition, and ethics. He is the author of Companionship and...
Dionysios Skliris holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne after completing a dissertation on Maximus the Confessor (c.580-662). He also holds a master’s degree from the University of London, along with bachelor’s degrees...
The Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism confirmed that ISIS, or the so-called Islamic State for Iraq and Syria, is undergoing a qualitative shift in its strategy.
It is no longer limited to practicing violence or seeking geographical...
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.