Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2018
Dr. Janneke Stegeman calls for ecumenism with Islam. Good relations with Muslims are very important but one cannot ignore that the existence of Christianity in virtually all Muslim majority countries is under threat. Another problem is that most Muslims do not accept the concept of freedom of...
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Egypt has been deeply divided between sympathizers
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 24, 2018
This interview was conducted in July 2015 with Father Hātūr ʿAbdullāh [Hathur ʿAbdullah], pastor of the Church of The Holy Virgin in Kafr Darwīsh, district of al-Fashn, Beni Suef governorate, around a month after reports about sectarian strife in his village. The interview was arranged through...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 23, 2018
An article in memorium of Metropolitan Bishop Bishoy (1942-2018)
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 21, 2018
The Center for Arab-West Understanding invited Matthew Anderson to participate in the Intercultural Summer School of the Center for Arab-West Understanding and Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development, June 26 – July 7, 2018, and to spend some time in our office in view of succeeding...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 17, 2018
The village of Dimshāw has become the scene of tensions between Muslims and Christians because Christians wanted to change a prayer house into a church building. It happens a lot that Christians in villages with no or insufficient church buildings meet for prayer in a house. Generally Muslims in...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 9, 2018
I’ve been in Egypt for about six weeks, but I mostly stayed in Cairo and Maadi. The capital city is incredibly vast lively and diverse, but I didn’t fall in love with the country. Too dusty, maybe. Harassment probably did not help as well. I have been in countries where being a young white foreign...
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 4, 2018
Editor AWR: The Center for Arab-West Understanding had invited Prof. Dr. Ḥassan M. Wajīh Ḥassan to provide a response to a lecture of H.E. Lord George Carey on July 13, 2018. Dr. Wajīh suffered of pain in his spine and was unable to come and for that reason wrote a “response” to a lecture that he...
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 27, 2018
I understand that there is sensitivity regarding travel to the Western Desert and when you look at the map, the case against travelling or living there seems obvious: Sīwah [Siwa] oasis is a long way from the Nile Valley and not so far from Libya. On the ground, the situation is very different.
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Background
Yāssīn Jābar was the Lebanese Minister of Economics in 1996. Now he is a member of parliament representing the district of Nabṭiyya. His platform is liberal in its political slant, with an emphasis on Human Rights.
Side A
In April 1996, the south of Lebanon was attacked by Israel during...