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Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 2004
During his latest visit to Egypt, Tom Lantos met with representatives of the Egyptian civil society. During this meeting, three issues were discussed: Lantos’ hostile stances against Egypt, especially his threat to halve the amount of US aid to Egypt, in addition to his stance toward the Arab-...
Date of source: Sunday, October 21, 2001
V. S. Naipaul, a British-Indian, is known for his great enmity for Islam and Muslims. His books overflow with incomparable obscenities against Islam. He goes way too far in writing about the Prophet. Still he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature this year. It seems that not writing against...
Date of source: Thursday, March 9, 2006
Jamāl Shāhīn reports on a new program by the American Embassy in Egypt that will target young reformists and train them in the principles of democracy and human rights. Shāhīn considers the decision of the US Embassy to allow members of the Muslim Brotherhood to participate as a sign of change in...
Date of source: Sunday, July 6, 2003
The Jewish Anti- Defamation League (set up by Bnai Brith), an American-Zionist organization, launched an attack against the “Reading for all” project sponsored by Susan Mubarak, Egypt´s first lady. Three books about Palestine were published as part of the project last year. The league...
Date of source: Sunday, March 2, 2003
An acquainted source related to the US Aid Association in Cairo revealed that there is a secret unofficial deal between the Egyptian Ministry of Endowments and the Azhar on the one hand and the association on the other hand. The deal is in effect-training a great number of sheikhs and imams at the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2002
The article cites parts of John Esposito´s book “The Islamic Threat…a Reality Or a Fable.” The book gives a critique of President Mubarak´s regime and of how he countered Islamic groups.
Date of source: Sunday, October 30, 2005
The AUC has called on Grand Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, to back down on the decision to ban a book on Wahābī Islam in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 2004
By listening to Muhammad Mehdi Akef, the seventh guide of the Islamist organization founded in 1928 by Hassan Al-Banna, one has a feeling of dealing with a personality that is regarded as the "pope" of Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 26, 2004
American reliable sources assert that the U.S. Embassy in Cairo has set certain conditions for those who are seeking American loans. It has to make sure that Egyptian young people seeking loans are not anti-Semites. The same condition will be applied to all American economic development loans for...
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 2004
American reports stressed that leading figures of the Egyptian National Democratic Party, including Gamal Mubarak, head of the party's Policies Secretariat, succumbed to the pressures of Washington and Tel Aviv to publish an apology in Al-Liwaa' Al-Islami [AWR, 2004, week 35, art. 35] for the...
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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.