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Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
This interview with Dr. Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī deals
with the latest fuss
when she and her daughter, Muna Hilmī, appeared on a television program to call for
giving children to the
names of their mothers, not just their fathers.
Date of source: Friday, June 9, 2006
The author here probes the repercussions concerning a recent
controversial
fatwa by the muftī banning statues. A number of Egyptian intellectuals and
writers have
criticized this fatwa, calling for the reform of religious discourse.
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
A controversial article on the growing Islamization of Egypt and the effect this has on the Coptic community.
Date of source: Friday, June 9, 2006
The author criticizes the Muslim Brotherhood’s
slogan
"Islam is the Solution" and describes it as being deceptive. He believes it does not reflect the ideology of
the group and calls for a new form of Islamic discourse.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 6, 2006
‘Izz al-Dīn
Najīb responds to a column by Safa
Nāz Kāzim in which she attacked him for being against the
visit of the mufti to the Faculty
of Fine Arts. Secondly, he argues against the religious prohibition on the
picturing of humans.
Date of source: Friday, June 2, 2006
The weekly sermon by the grand imām of the Azhar,
which focused on the
interpretation of Chapter 18, al-Kahf [The Cave] of the Holy Qur’ān,
dealt with the need for
dā‘iyas [Islamic preachers] to be equipped with knowledge and
evidence about Islam and its
morals.
Date of source: Thursday, June 1, 2006
Correcting the image of Islam in the West can be achieved
when Muslims
first admit that they actually failed in transmitting the right concept of Islam and then map
out a plan for this
goal.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Recent studies have revealed
that the largest portion of violent
crimes in Egyptian society is due to trivial disputes over household
expenses. Taking into consideration economic
problems, sociologist Dr. Ahmad al-Majdoub argues that
unemployment and poverty are the main factor behind the...
Date of source: Saturday, May 27, 2006 to Friday, June 2, 2006
The article tackles the failure of
religious institutions in Egypt to come up with a
moderate discourse, as the author blames the current state of
fanatisism in the country on both Muslim and
Christian preachers.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The author writes about a conference
he attended in
Indonesia that has considered ways for Arab Muslim countries to benefit from the experiments of non
-Arab
Muslim countries and which discussed whether Islamic discourse could be reformed without taking the Arab
environment into account.
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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.