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In evaluating the webinar Dr. Matthew Anderson appreciated the work done but said we should also address secularism. People often question religions for this and that. “Secularism is often given a free pass in these conversations as if there aren’t questions we can ask about secularism, as if there...
Today is the 28th anniversary of the assassination of Egyptian thinker, Dr. Faraj Fūda. He was killed on June 8, 1992 over his opinions and studies, in which he refuted the ideologies of the extremist organizations and the Muslim Brotherhood group, and exposed their efforts to reach power in the...
Faraj Fūda was a renowned thinker whose books sparked large-scale controversy in the circles of intellectuals, clerics, and politicians, as well as the members of the al-Jamāʿa al-Islāmīya (The Islamic Group.)
Today marks a pivotal incident that occurred during the early 1990s: the assassination of writer Faraj Fūda by extremists in Cairo. The first episode of the sad tale begins with Fūda attending a debate of the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) on January 7, 1992 under the title ‘Egypt: Between a...
It was a great generosity from Arab West report, and my friend Cornelis Hulsman, the editor in chief, to introduce me to make this interview with Prof. Schleifer, who has a life-long unique intercultural engagement with an amazing experience and a very successful career. This interview was recorded...
Despite the temporary calm since the beginning of 2021, French President Emmanuel Macron’s campaign on “radical Islam” and “Islamist separatism” in France hasn’t stopped.  Instead, the temporary calm has perhaps come to contain the outrage that Macron’s statements provoked when he stated that “...
The Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman said that he is praying that the messiah will come shortly before Passover, the symbol of deliverance, to save Israelis from the Coronavirus.  Litzman, who is affiliated with the United Torah Judaism Party, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish Party associated with...
In light of the controversy caused by the recent comments made by French President Emmanuel Macron, al-Ahrām Portal talked to three Coptic intellectuals who agreed that insulting Islam, religions in general, and prophets is unacceptable from a Christian perspective.  However, some of them also...
In his book The French Suicide (2014), the right-wing author Éric Zemmour discussed the collapse of France on several levels.  He focused onto lingering anxieties over migration and a deadly spate of terrorist violence that began in 2015. In the novel Submission by Michel Houellebecq, he imagines a...
The modern world is marked by the ideological clash that everyone is involved in whether as participants or victims.  In order to understand the world correctly, the real sources for these concepts that control this world and their meanings have to be known.

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