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Date of source: Saturday, December 16, 2006
The personal life of some famous reciters.
Date of source: Saturday, August 5, 2006 to Friday, August 11, 2006
The author discusses nude art and how this issue has been handled by the arts faculty at Cairo University. She tells the story of a girl who drew her friend nude and presented it as her graduation project.
Date of source: Friday, June 23, 2006
Fine arts raise good taste, Shaykh Muhammad Abdou, the former Egyptian muftī said. They are not sinful, but useful. The writer says at the beginning of the 20th century Muslims in Egypt and Arab world were able to practice all arts with freedom.
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: 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: Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The author deals in his full-page article with the reaction by an Islamic writer about the fatwa of Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘a, the muftī, considering statues harām, and how this writer strongly supported the fatwa from an aesthetic point of view, although she is not an art specialist.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The author says that the return of Muslim actresses who retired and have put on the hijāb to acting has sparked controversy on the religious legitimacy of acting while wearing the Muslim headscarf. Two camps of Islamic thinkers differ on the issue.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The author investigates the rampant ultra- religious current and the niqāb phenomenon inside the Fine Arts College in Egypt, starting his 11- page news feature with a photo depicting several female students wearing the niqāb inside the college with a caption reading "this is a photo of...
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The author argues that political and cultural imbalances are behind the problems Egypt is facing, criticizing the language of dialogue between deputies in parliament and the failure to agree, from a national perspective, on a decision to end the state of emergency, in effect since 1981.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
The author of the article comments on the fatwa deeming sculpture works harām.
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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.