Arab-West Report is an independent electronic magazine founded by Drs. Cornelis Hulsman

Cornelis Hulsman

Cornelis Hulsman is a Dutch sociologist who has been living in Egypt since 1994. He is currently the editor in chief of the Arab-West Report. AWR includes a weekly digest of various Egyptian press outlets...

 and Eng. Sawsan Gabra Ayoub Khalil

Sawsan Gabra Ayoub Khalil

Sawsan Gabra Ayoub Khalil is an Egyptian Christian civil engineer who is actively involved in projects advancing Arab-West and Muslim-Christian understanding. Sawsan Gabra is co-founder of Arab-West Report. AWR was previously called Religious News Service from the Arab World , and in 2005 founded...

 in 1997, originally titled the Religious News Service from the Arab World

Religious News Service from the Arab World

The Religious News Service from the Arab World is the predecessor of the Arab-West Report and provided a weekly electronic digest of Arab Egyptian media, beginning in 1997....

. The name was changed to Arab-West Report on January 1, 2003, reflecting the magazine's broadened scope of reporting.

Arab-West Report presents systematic media reviews from Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

ian Arab media on subjects related to Muslim

Muslim

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...

-Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 relations, which later expanded to include Arab-West relations. The magazine works with a fixed set of selection criteria for subjects taken from a fixed set of media thereby providing an excellent overview of changes in media reporting over the years.

Arab-West Report is based in Cairo

Cairo

Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

 and has a board of advisers consisting of Egyptian Christian and Muslim experts, as well as non-Egyptian experts. The magazine is not partisan, and provides media critiques if non-partisan ethical standards have been knowingly violated. Arab-West Report also publishes its own investigative reporting in issues that have caused widely different responses between Muslims and Christians and/or different media.

Arab-West Report has systematically followed Arab media since 1997 and has a unique archive of over 20,000 reviews and reports. The magazine is in particular frequently consulted by academics and students.

Cooperation

Arab-West Report is linked to the Arab-West Foundation in The Netherlands, the Center for Arab-West Understanding

Center for Arab-West Understanding

The Center for Arab-West Understanding developed from the ideals of the Egyptian electronic magazine Arab-West Report. The request for Egyptian NGO status was filed in 2004 and obtained in January 2008 ....

, Cairo and the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation

Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation

The Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation is an Egyptian organization founded in 2005 to select, review, and translate Arab media publications The reviews are then published in the electronic magazine Arab-West Report....

, Cairo, Egypt. These organizations all revolve around Arab-West Report and are sometimes addressed as the Arab-West Group.