Arab West Report Egyptian press summaries and media research for dialogue

The article compares how Muslims are dealt with in the West, and how Islam obliges Muslims to treat non-Muslims living in Islamic countries kindly.

An article presenting clarification on a number of Qur’ānic verses referenced by Geert Wilders in his film ’Fitna.’

The following article presents an overview of the Annual Anglican-Al Azhar Interfaith Meeting that implicitly dealt with dialogue and means of furthering it. Wisam al-Deweny provides her input on the subject, and recommends means of improving this dialogue in the future.

Dr. Nash’at Ja‘far explains how Islām treated Ahl al-Kitāb as believers, not apostates.

Dr. Muhammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī explains how Islām established a civil state based on both faith and civilization.

The article talks about the conference of different religions dialogue in Rome between the Azhar Dialogue Committee and the Vatican, following a hiatus of over six months due to the Vatican pope’s offensive statements against Islām.

Zaghlūl ‘Abd al-Ḥalīm discusses ‘Abd al-

Hādī Hoffman’s book ’Baiyn Shatá al-Jabahāt.’

In an interview with al-Wafd, Dr. Jamāl

Rajab Sīdbī, a professor of Islamic philosophy at Suez Canal University who is also an assistant

professor at the Faculty of Education, in Nizwa, Oman, discusses the recent escalation in tensions between Islām

and the West.

The author explains his viewpoint on the Arab-West relationship in

light of the Vatican pope’s visit to Turkey.

Dr. Muhammad ‘Imārah talks about the characteristics that distinguish the Islamic model of Arabic culture from the Western one.