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Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
The Supreme Military Court wrote the final chapter last Thursday in a mysterious saga involving suspected members of the country’s largest militant organization, Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya. Twenty-one defendants had been charged with planning to revive the group’s activities in the Mediterranean city of...
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 1999 to Wednesday, June 2, 1999
Despite press reports claiming the rejection of Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiyya to ongoing efforts by some of its former members to establish a political party, the would-be founders vow to move on. Dialogue is said to be taking place between leading members of several Islamist groups including the Gamaa...
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 1999 to Friday, May 21, 1999
The governor of Al-Minya governorate talks to Rose El-Youssef magazine about the current state of communal relations between Muslims and Copts, as well as fundamentalism and fanaticism in the governorate.
Date of source: Thursday, May 13, 1999 to Wednesday, May 19, 1999
Canadian authorities recently arrested an Egyptian Islamist accused of involvement in the 1981 assassination of President Anwar El-Sadat and confined him in a prison near Toronto airport. Islamist sources identified the militant as Mahmoud Sayyed Gaballah, who left Egypt in 1991.
Date of source: Saturday, May 1, 1999
There has currently been extensive talk about continued confrontation with the Jihad underground organization, which is the most dangerous terrorist group. The organization has been receiving heavy blows inside and outside the country. The current period of time has witnessed the handing over to...
Date of source: Monday, April 26, 1999
Montasser Al-Zayyat, a prominent lawyer who has represented Islamist militants in many court cases, explains in an interview why the Gama’at will not any longer resort to violence.
Date of source: Thursday, April 22, 1999 to Wednesday, April 28, 1999
This trial is the biggest trial of suspected Islamic militants since those that followed the assassination of the late President Anwar Al-Sadat.
Date of source: Thursday, April 1, 1999 to Wednesday, April 7, 1999
Fat-h, the backbone of the Palestinian Authority (PA), suffered a significant setback in recent student elections in universities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in what some observers say reflects plummeting support among ordinary Palestinians for the policies of the PA led by President Yasser...
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An Egyptian state security court sentenced 14 Muslim militants to up to 15 years in jail with hard labor on March 8 for arson attacks on video shops.
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Bars and shops selling alcohol, video tape rental shops and huge street billboards advertising steamy pictures of Egypt’s top actresses are among the targets of the country’s largest militant organization, Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiyya.
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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.