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Date of source: Monday, March 3, 2003
With many photos for veiled actresses and belly dancers, modern preachers and politicians involved in scandals, the author discusses the relation between art and morality and politics and morality.
Date of source: Monday, December 6, 2004
The story, published in Sawt Al-Umma’s centerpiece, is about an Italian woman of the name Maria Sandro, one of the prettiest girls of the district of Shubra during the 1930’s. She, after the elapse of half a century, has become the grandmother of an adolescent named Karim Safwan.
Date of source: Monday, March 4, 2002
The article tackles more than one point related to the Islamic groups. It comments on the book of Ayman Al-Zawahri “Knights Under the Flag of the Prophet” and on Montasser Al-Zayyat´s “Al-Zawahri as I knew him.” It tries to answer the question of why Bin Laden gained great popularity among...
Date of source: Monday, February 6, 2006
The author, in a 16-page supplement of independent newspaper al-Fajr, is reviewing a book by writer Jonathan Kirsch about the story of Lot and his two daughters.
Date of source: Monday, January 2, 2006
Dr. Nasr Abu Zayd, a celebrated modern scholar of Qur’ānic studies, who fled to the Netherlands after the Egyptian courts ordered that he be forcibly divorced from his wife on charges of apostasy, argues for reform of religious thought and an end to corruption.
Date of source: Monday, November 1, 2004
We dare call what happened with the soap opera Bint min Shubra (A girl from Shubra) a massacre or crisis but after all it is yet another banned item.
Date of source: Monday, July 26, 2004
Anyone who visits Egypt will see Muslim and Christian signs of religiosity everywhere, in streets, taxis, shops, audiocassettes and clothes. At the same time the extent of corruption is constantly growing. What is the reason for this paradox we are experiencing?
The Imam denies his wife’s...
Date of source: Monday, July 19, 2004
Religious obsession is sweeping through Egyptians’ minds. Muslims are obsessed with having full control while Christians are obsessed with withdrawing from social activities to look for the traits and strengths of closed communities.
Such a tense atmosphere serves as a rich soil for the growth of...
Date of source: Monday, May 10, 2004
Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid will be the chairman of the Arab Institute for Renewing Thought, an Arab think tank based in Beirut. He has always wished to participate in independent cultural work. “The modernization of thought is the motto but what is more important than the motto is the means. The aim of...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
In December 1976, Mamdouh Salem, then Minister of Interior, issued a
decision to cancel censorship on books and newspapers. This was one way President Sadat aimed at
presenting himself as democratic. The editors and the managers of the newspapers were appointed
by the president himself and thus...
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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.