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Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2001 to Friday, August 17, 2001
The author believes the Muslim Brotherhood helped Amr Khalid to become the sheikh of the elite and prevented him from teaching.
Date of source: Saturday, July 28, 2001
Young people in Egypt are divided between two groups. One group finds in Islam an identity and a belonging. Another group that does not know a certain identity, refuses to be put in a certain frame and has doubts about all the political and intellectual trends. Sheikh Amr Khalid is the only bridge...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
At a Friday preaching, the preacher was asking God to destroy the Americans and the Jews, saying that apostasy and deviance from the right path are the reasons for the political crisis in the Middle East. The author believes that this man is an example of the preachers who mix religion with...
Date of source: Saturday, April 14, 2001 to Friday, April 20, 2001
An ex-television announcer who wore the veil and is now running a school in one of Ansar Al-Sunna society’s mosques, claimed that the Imam of the mosque accused her of turning the mosque’s basement into a cabaret. The Imam denied that and said it was she who claims to be modern and is responsible...
Date of source: Thursday, November 16, 2000
The Moroccan Minister of Waqfs spoke in an interview about the importance of having an international organization for Friday preachers in all the mosques of the world. He added that the dialogue between different Islamic denominations should concentrate on their contents and on finding one scale...
Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2000
This article discusses the technique false do’a [plural of Da’iya, preacher] and terrorists use to control simple people’s minds. The story, by which the author starts his article, and the image he used, help in conveying that causing fear and confusion to disable the mind from thinking properly,...
Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2000 to Friday, April 14, 2000
The Ministry of Al-Awqaf declared recently that the mosques that are present inside the clubs do not follow the ministry. This made us think thoroughly of what was said because in these mosques, religious lessons are held, and preachers are preaching. Leaders of clubs ask preachers to come and...
Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2000 to Friday, April 14, 2000
"Al-Mustashyakhoun" [Arabic for unqualified people who pretend to be sheikhs]
The people who belong to this group let their beards grow and sit in front of television cameras like superstars. They put the initials "Dr." before their names in order to mislead people and make them think that they...
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
Terrorism has departed leaving an empty space in its place, the domination over which a long line of new extremists are now fighting. They are the stars of noisy religious speeches on tapes and in books. ... The religious cassette gets higher selling rates than Amr Diab or Kazem Al-Saher [popular...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 21, 1999
Sheikh Al-Sayyed Al-Qubeisi, head of the Union of Imams and the sheikh of Abu El-Ela’s mosque relates how when in Holland during the month of Ramadan, he noticed Moroccan Muslims. Instead of giving religious lectures, they buy buildings and convert them into mosques. When he offered his co-...
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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.