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Date of source: Saturday, August 31, 2002 to Friday, September 6, 2002
A professor at Cairo University expresses her sadness at the fact that hijab became widespread among female students. She believes that there are unannounced, but highly organized, institutions that brainwash those girls in order to make them wear the hijab or niqab [face cover].
Date of source: Saturday, August 17, 2002 to Friday, August 23, 2002
Microbus drivers force their passengers to listen to audio-tapes that contain extremist religious material, while passengers have no right to raise any objection against their contents or their loud volume. If any passenger dares to raise any objection, he would be accused of unbelief for refusing...
Date of source: Saturday, August 3, 2002 to Friday, August 9, 2002
Arab Afghan Abdullah Annas explains the reasons behind the enmity between the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front (ISF) and the Egyptian Jihad Organization and speaks about the relationship between the Egyptian Gama´at Al-Islamiya and the ISF. He also speaks about the relationship between America and...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 24, 1999
Population growth of 2.3 %, increasing poverty and a deadly Islamic terror. Dr. Usama el-Baz, political advisor of President Mubarak, expects fundamentalism to disappear in a few years time but Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, political sociologist at the American University in Cairo does not believe this.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 16, 2002
The Israeli paper Haaretz reports that the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem sent the Israeli president a message in which he condemned the martyrdom operations. He said to the paper, “I am a Greek and have neither political nor national relations with the Palestinians.”
Date of source: Saturday, July 20, 2002 to Friday, July 26, 2002
Rose Al-Youssef´s special file for this week covers many different subjects: Terrorists and Islamists living in Britain, Sheikh Amr Khaled´s way of preaching, Islam and politics, the role men of religion can play to build up societies and the issue of hijab in Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, July 14, 2002
Patriarch Erinious of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem deposed Father Attallah Hanna, the official spokesman of the church, and appointed a Greek priest in his place because he had refused to condemn martyrdom operations – which followers of the Church considered was submission to Israeli orders....
Date of source: Saturday, July 6, 2002 to Friday, July 12, 2002
Rose El-Youssef´s special file on extremism for this week shows how the magazine resisted extremism. It also discussed the reasons for Egypt´s success in overcoming terrorism, the issue of the cassettes containing lectures by sheikhs who claim to preach in the name of religion, the...
Date of source: Saturday, June 22, 2002 to Friday, June 28, 2002
Rose El-Youssef created a special file on extremism and terrorism. The file discusses cassette tapes that degrade women in Egyptian society, the fact that some lawyers looking for fame collaborate with extremists, that some scholars oppose scholarly development and that terrorists have turned to...
Date of source: Monday, May 27, 2002
The American Ambassador to Cairo asked the Mufti to issue a fatwa forbidding martyrdom operations as he considers that terrorism. The Mufti said that these issues were related to Islam and no one could tell Muslims what to say concerning their religious issues. He said that these operations are...
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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.