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Date of source: Friday, May 30, 2003
Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reported that the French government plans to issue restrictive procedures preventing Muslim students from wearing veils [hijab] at schools and universities. At the same time it allows Jews to wear their Jewish headgear.
Date of source: Friday, May 30, 2003
Despite the persistency of the French Minister of Interior to issue a law that requires women to remove their veil [hijab] for passport photos, the French first lady intervened personally to exclude nuns from this law.
Date of source: Saturday, May 31, 2003
An American Muslim has brought an action suit against the authorities of Florida state, USA. Authorities refused issuing her a driving license that has a photo of her wearing the niqab [veil that covers hair and face]. She believes such a rejection violates her personal religious freedom. Officials...
Date of source: Saturday, May 24, 2003 to Friday, May 30, 2003
The grandson of Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood group, delivered a lecture at the Institut du Monde Arabe [The Institute of the Arab World]. He attacked fundamentalism and asked young Muslims not to melt away and lose their culture and at the same time not to isolate...
Date of source: Sunday, May 25, 2003
The Canadian demographic consensus for year 2001 showed a remarkable increase in the number of Muslims in Canada in the last decade of the twentieth century as a result of the influx of Muslim emigrants from south Asia, North Africa and the Middle East.
Date of source: Saturday, May 24, 2003
A Muslim American comments on the conditions of Muslims in the US after the attacks of September 11.
Date of source: Friday, May 9, 2003
The article discusses the conditions of the Muslim community and France, its relations with the secular French society and its political influence.
Date of source: Sunday, May 11, 2003
The issue of the hejab [veil] has surfaced once more in France. The French prime minister tried to explain the attitude of French schools towards the hejab. He says that students are not treated on religious bases but simply as students of the French Republic. That is why no group should be...
Date of source: Sunday, May 11, 2003
The author comments on the establishment of the first Islamic council in France and gives a background about it.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 7, 2003
The author covers the meetings organized by the Goethe Institute to discuss the image of Islam in the eyes of the West, especially after September 11.
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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.