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Date of source: Thursday, December 14, 2000
A lecture on the Islamic conquest of Egypt was held in the Cairo Opera House. The speakers stressed that the Islamic conquest of Egypt was not a colonization. It saved the Copts from the persecution of the Byzantines. They warned against recent attempts to distort Islamic history in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, March 9, 2000
Dr. Mohammed Emara, the Islamic thinker, explained that the Islamic opening of Egypt gave its people life and saved them from the Byzantine despotism and persecution, and gave back the Copts their freedom and church, after they had been hunted fugitives. He stressed that without Islam there would...
Date of source: Thursday, December 16, 1999
A disciplinary council in the Azhar University headed by Dr. Taha Abu Krasha, the Vice-President of the Azhar University decided to dismiss Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli, a professor of rhetoric and [literary] criticism at the Faculty of Arabic Language in the Azhar University, for his objection of the...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999
In the opening session of the Islamic conference, Minister of Endowments Hamdi Zaqzouq delivered a speech on behalf of President Mubarak in which he called for serious thinking on the issue of "The renaissance of the Islamic world" which is what the conference is about.
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999
The eleventh meeting of the International Conference of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs will begin next Tuesday [22 June 1999] morning at the Marriott Hotel, Cairo. The Conference is being organized under the patronage of President Hosni Mubarak who will give an opening address which 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.