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Date of source: Sunday, September 24, 2006
The author reflects on the outrage following the controversial lecture given by Pope Benedict XVI in Germany and more broadly on the way that people respond to religious defamation or vilification.
Date of source: Sunday, August 10, 1997
The author
criticizes the journalism of excitement that tries to attract readers who share the same attitude.
Watani is
proud that it follows the journalism of honor. Watani works with a protocol, whose
full text is provided and
rejects publications which stir up the sentiments of Muslims or...
Date of source: Sunday, September 28, 1997
At the Azhar,
English woman Jane Wilman, the wife
of an Alexandrian businessman, Dr. Ali Elba, has declared that she has
embraced Islam and taken the new name Eisha
Mohammed Elba. This conversion was applauded in the national
newspaper, al-Ahram, but Youssuf Sedhum wonders
why conversions to...
Date of source: Sunday, September 21, 1997
Romani
Shafiek Agieb is a student who was persecuted by the University
of Asiut, Faculty of Education, after being
refused the right to nominate himself as a lecturer and then a
university professor. As a result, many
Egyptian Copts offered to help the student finish his higher education...
Date of source: Thursday, August 28, 1997
President Housni Moubarak gave a comprehensive political speech to Al-Ahram newspaper last week. This speech dealt with the president’s viewpoints concerning the most important internal and external issues and was clear and self- evident. Yet the problems of the Copts, and their aspirations for the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 17, 1997
A piece of land
in Assuit was donated by citizens for the building of a mosque, and it was
decided by the authorities to
destroy all property already on that land. However, two brothers claim that the land
was not owned by the
generous citizens, but actually belonged to them. They say they...
Date of source: Sunday, July 20, 1997
Yousef Sidhom, editor-in-chief of Watani, responds to an article of Islamist author Fahmy Huweidy in Al-Ahram newspaper demanding that the Coptic church denounce all extremist movements who tarnish the image of Egypt on the international stage by focusing on negative aspects of Egypt, including...
Date of source: Sunday, June 29, 1997
The repair of a church toilet at the Monastery of the Syrian prompted a mob to destroy the entire building
while the monk overseeing the work was at the police station. Watani complains that the official
press,
al-Ahram and al-Akhbar, present the event as if it was a minor incident, and that...
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2006
The author discusses Egypt’s security apparatuses and argues that, while people in Egypt are living in a police state, security bodies are naïve in their attempts to ensure the country’s security. They only focus on futile measures.
Date of source: Sunday, September 10, 2006
The author argues that Egyptians are living in a “police state.”
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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.