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Date of source: Saturday, February 3, 2024
A dilemma that involves the issue of many injustices related to Christians’ personal status has been dominating the question of inheritance for Christians in most, if not all, Arab countries. However, Jordan has courageously approached this thorny affair, and come up with a solution that might...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Egyptian Columnist Saḥar al-Jaʿārah writes this week:
It is not surprising that from time to time there are calls for "polygamy". However, polygamy is no solution to the spinsterhood crisis; it is in fact a consecration of the idea of , al-Misyār marriage, literally, the traveler’s marriage, which...
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2011
Sahar al-Ja'ārah said that if there is a counter-revolution then salafists' behavior can be the spearhead of it as they work on intimidating the Egyptian society.
Recent acts of violence by salafīsts terrorize Copts and lead to the formation of anti-revolution impressions on the grounds that it "...
Date of source: Friday, December 24, 2010
Sahar Al-Ja'ārah writes about a Fatwá made by Shaykh Mahmūd ‘Āmir, President of Ansār al-Sunnah al-Muhammadiyyah group at Damanhūr, which calls for the slaying of Muhammad al-Barād‘ī, former president of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for civil disobedience and incitement to disobey...
Date of source: Friday, December 17, 2010
This column consists of a vitriolic attack on the treatment of women in Muslim countries, with special emphasis on the recent flogging of a woman in Sudan.
"If you wish to determine the reasons for the Muslim nation's economic and social backwardness, then observe the behavior of Muslims," the...
Date of source: Monday, December 27, 2004
I had decided not to deal with the incidents that followed the disappearance of Wafā’ Costantine, the matter that aroused sectarian strife in Egypt. Yet I found that despite many analyses and discussions on the topic, people are still convinced that there is no sectarian strife and extremism...
Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.