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Date of source: Saturday, March 25, 2000 to Friday, March 31, 2000
The phenomenon of "sheikhism" (claiming to have special spiritual vocation) is starting to devastate a wide range of Egyptian society. This requires our highest attention especially since it hits mainly women, the most vital cell in society.
Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2000 to Friday, March 17, 2000
This article talks about an extremist sheikh (whose name is not given) who had been very popular. He suddenly disappeared from the public scene after he was implicated in sexual immorality (according to some). However, he is back. This article asks why and how?
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
News: The trial broadcasting of a specialized religious channel will be launched soon on the Egyptian television. The question that emerged, as soon as the religious channel was declared was: Do we need more religious fanaticism?! Moreover, even more dangerous, will we start dividing programs...
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
Whenever terrorist activity calms down and seems as if it had ended, we find it trying to sneak into our lives once more. Terrorists, whenever a star is put out, move around to build another star, to fool simple people with cheap ways.
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: Monday, January 31, 2000
There is no religion on earth that has not got extremists. It is not bad to have extremists in Christianity or Islam whether in Egypt or in any other country. But what is really bad is not to pay any attention to these extremists and feel afraid of confronting them. Islamic extremism failed to find...
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2000
Last week, A.M.A. spoke in a television program [the article doesn’t mention which program but from the context of the article a TV program in Britain is suspected] in which he described himself by being someone who calls people to Islam. He demanded the murder of all the rulers of the Muslim...
Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2000
A seven point statement issued in the wake in the wake of the incidents at Al-Kosheh.
Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2000
In spite of the society’s development, Upper Egypt is still controlled by the fanaticism of families. Some of the families want to have a special role when they are confronting the other families and they do not hesitate in owning many weapons in order to protect themselves. Therefore, Upper Egypt...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
And we do not say "Try Again? Y/N" because we do no t want you to. We realize that you are going to try, however. Of course, we mean those who incited what happened in Al-Kosheh between Muslims and Copts, and turned it to a subject of statements which they fired simultaneously from different...
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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.