Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 23, 2006
From the crusades until now, religion has always been taken as an excuse to wage war. The pope’s recent attitude reveals his political orientation.
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 20, 2006
Angry reactions to Pope
Benedict’s remarks on Islam and the Prophet
Muhammad continued for a second week. Some Muslim figures,
including Iranian President Ahmadinejad and
Malaysian Prime Minister ‘Abd Allāh Ahmad
Badawī, have accepted the pope’s regret at the
furious reactions to his remarks...
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 23, 2006
The review deals with varied opinions about Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks
considered offensive in Muslim and
Arab countries amidst calls to expel the papal nuncio in Egypt and put the
interfaith dialogue with the
Vatican on the back burner.
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 22, 2006
The review considers a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the
ambassadors of Muslim
and Arab nations to the Holy See, in which the pontiff affirmed his respect for all
religions, particularly
Islam, and called for continuing the Muslim-Christian dialogue. He described this as of
vital...
Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 4, 2004
Rev. Dr. John Watson writes that all religious institutions live by internal conflict.
The real conflict is not between Muslims and Christians of the region, but between the West and the Islamic orient.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 28, 2006
The murder of Lebanese minister Pierre Gemayel might result in sectarian clashes again.
Commotion in Egyptian media about comments from the Minister of Culture who said that wearing the veil is a sign of backwardness.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 14, 2006
A group of prominent experts from different academic backgrounds and ideological orientations, both Muslim and Christian, discussed whom the Regensburg lecture was really aiming at and how the current crisis could be constructively faced. They called for a reconsideration of the basis on which...
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 29, 2006
The statements of the pope about Islam confirm “many often heard prejudices about Islam” says Prof. Wagīh, who is a member of the Higher Islamic Council of Egypt.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 2, 2006
This text was the author’s contribution to the round table discussion on the lecture of Pope Benedict XVI, held by the Program for Dialogue of Civilizations (PDC) at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University, November 2, 2006.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 21, 2006
Lectures stating that Christianity is coming to an end in most Middle Eastern countries which is strongly related to Western interference in the region.Media attention for AWR work.