Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 31, 2006
Wisām Muhammad provides an insight into her experience as an intern working with the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Understanding. She describes her previous perceptions of the Western world, and how her work with AWR has helped to change her understanding, and further her commitment to...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 31, 2006
Drs. Hulsman criticizes the well-known American Evangelical writer Dr. David Aikman for presenting an article in support of Pope Benedict’s main arguments about Islām, claiming Islām not to be a religion of reason. Hulsman finds Aikman’s arguments an oversimplification and therefore doing injustice...
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 10, 2007
In this article the author comments on the book of Muḥammad ‘Imārah in which he accused ahl al-Dhimmah of infidelity.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 6, 2007
Imīl Amīn interviews Michael Louis Fitzgerald, the ambassador of the Vatican in Egypt.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 25, 2007
A few days ago, Islamic thinker Dr. Muḥammad ‘Imārah was summoned by Judge ‘Abd al-Majīd Maḥmūd, the public prosecutor, to answer accusations brought against him by Lawyer Najīb Jibrā’īl, the head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization [EUHRO, see: http://www.euhroeg.com/], and Father...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 19, 2007
The Shaykh of the Azhar Muhammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī referred to the possibility of resuming the Azhar-Vatican dialogue that stopped after the Roman Catholic pope’s highly-publicized and controversial lecture on Islām.
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 12, 2007
After four months of estrangement between the Azhar and the Vatican, the Vatican Ambassador in Cairo, Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald visited Shaykh ‘Umar al-Dīb, chairman of the Permanent Committee for Inter-religious Dialogue, in his office at the Azhar headquarters.
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 1, 2007
The author of the article blames Muslims for failing to establish a fruitful dialogue with the West.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 4, 2007
Murād reviews Ṭanṭāwī’s book ‘Hadhā Huwa al- Islām; Ḥiwār Hādi’ ma‘ Bābā al-Fātikān’ [This is Islām; a Calm Dialogue with the Pope of the Vatican] Islām is a religion of peace and freedom and the Prophet Muhammad is the prophet of merci and noble morals who was mentioned in the Torah and the Bible.
Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 23, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI urged the
Islamic world, at his
end-of-year speech to the Roman Curia, to respect human rights and the freedom of
faith as the Catholic Church had
done in the past.