Date of source: Monday, May 5, 2008
Liberal Islamic thinker Nasr Hāmid Abū Zayd participated in a cultural festival that was organized in Beirut and Cairo at the same time. After the difficulties encountered to hold Abū Zayd’s lecture in different places, the lecture was given at the American University in Cairo where Abū Zayd...
Date of source: Monday, September 1, 2008
Drs. Hulsman and Dr. Burslem provide a detailed report on Muslim-Christian relations based on a review of Dr. Hugh Goddard’s book, commenting on a number of issues including Western perceptions, mis-interpretations, and examples of recent incidents involving Muslims and Christians.
Date of source: Friday, April 25, 2008
Shaykh Yūsuf al-Qaradāwī denies that the Qur’ān has texts with presumptive and indisputable passages and ones that call non-Muslims kafīr.
Date of source: Thursday, July 10, 2008
Drs. Hulsman comments on the recent incidents involving a monastery in Minia, and a number of articles in this issue that point to sectarian tensions.
Date of source: Sunday, April 6, 2008
In the article, the author rejects the idea that a Muslim woman is allowed to marry a Kitābī [a Jewish or Christian] man.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The recent controversial Egyptians Against Religious Discrimination conference was prevented from taking place by force. The following lines shed light on the conference’s recommendations and the press controversy it aroused.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
The new Egyptian generation adopt their fathers’ attitude toward the other. People seem to forget that they are Egyptian before they are Muslim or Christian.
Date of source: Friday, April 11, 2008
The author responds to a controversial statement from the prominent Shaykh Yūsuf al-Qaradāwī in which he claimed that Christians are kāfirs.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The following issue of AWR presents a number of articles on the recent disputes around the monastery of Abū Fānā, Upper Egypt, including AWR interviews with governor Ahmed Dia el-Din, father Dumadios from the Monastery of Abu Fana, the head of the Arab Bani Khaled tribe, two prominent shaykhs, four...
Date of source: Thursday, April 17, 2008
A group of 12 Egyptian and an Iraqi have been arrested on charges of plotting to carry out a coup.