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Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 1999
The secularists refuse the establishment of Islamic parties, which is favored by Islamists. In the view of these secularists it would mean the destruction of the society. An unpublished judicial report states that the law and the constitution does not prohibit the establishment of "Islamic"...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
The Ansar-e Hezbollah, a movement of hard-line zealots that strikes fear into many Iranians, has issued a call to arms to protect the Islamic system. They say the time has come to provide the movement with arms and "revolutionary" powers to finish off "liberals" who question the supreme rule of...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
Infringement on personal freedom or sound educational policy? The ban on wearing the niqab, or full face-veil, in schools has stirred intense controversy and a lengthy legal battle ever since it was issued by Minister of Education Hussein Kamel Bahaaeddin in 1994. The legal wrangle came to an end...
Date of source: Friday, July 23, 1999
Jordan’s main Islamist opposition, emboldened by success in countrywide local elections, urged the government last week to widen the country’s fledgling democracy. The IAF swept to victory in extended local elections in three of the kingdom’s main cities of Irbid, Zarqa and Russeifa, where they had...
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999 to Wednesday, July 28, 1999
The results of last week’s municipal elections, in which Islamists won main municipalities, showed that the relationship between the government and opposition parties is on the mend. The results, which were released on Friday following a one-day extension of the vote due to low turnout, were...
Date of source: Thursday, July 15, 1999 to Wednesday, July 21, 1999
Algeria’s parliament, dominated by pro-government parties, has overwhelmingly approved a draft amnesty law for Islamic rebels designed to end more than seven years of violence, parliamentarians said on July 9. Politicians said around 2,000 Islamist prisoners have been released since July 5 and at...
Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 1999
Islamists won the country’s main municipalities in elections that they acknowledged as free, fair and democratic.
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: Saturday, May 29, 1999 to Friday, June 4, 1999
Islamist students at the Faculty of Dar Al-Aloum at Cairo University reacted violently when the faculty organized a mixed-sex student outing to Al-Agamy in Alexandria. A female student died on the trip in a tragic accident. Islamist students insisted that the Dar Al-Aloum Faculty was Islamic and...
Date of source: Thursday, January 28, 1999 to Wednesday, February 3, 1999
The Arab Strategic Report issued last week by the Al-Ahram Centre for Political and
Strategic Studies argues that religion has little to do with the problems faced by Copts. Weak democratic institutions and human rights violations are the main reasons behind the problems faced by all Egyptians, be...
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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.