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Date of source: Friday, December 31, 1999
While government officials in Egypt worked day and night, and spent 35 million pounds, not on building or repairing schools, houses, or monuments damaged by earthquakes, not on health insurance or founding jobs for the unemployed who are increasing daily; but on the celebration of the "Third...
Date of source: Sunday, December 26, 1999
Dr. Mustafa Al-Shakma in an interview with Atef Abdel-Ghany, talks about the forthcoming celebrations of the fourteen-hundredth anniversary of Egypt’s entry into the Islamic world. He insists that the people of Egypt were not forced to adopt Islam after its Fath [opening up of the land by Muslims...
Date of source: Friday, November 19, 1999
The Secretary-General of the Makkah-based Muslim World League (MWL), Dr. Abdullah Saleh Al-Obeid, has appealed to all Muslim countries, organizations, and people to show solidarity with the people of Chechnya.
Date of source: Friday, November 5, 1999
A member of the Jordan Writers Association "suspended himself" last week from the executive board, over several disputes with the president, Fakhri Kawar because he had met with Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic during a recent trip to Yugoslavia where he signed an agreement without informing...
Date of source: Saturday, October 30, 1999
What does the Brotherhood have that scares the government? One of the deputies of the General Guide of the Brotherhood is a Syrian. How can Egyptian’s accept this, the paper asks. The arrests of major members of the Brotherhood have caused an internal turmoil. Some Brothers see the crackdown as a...
Date of source: Friday, October 15, 1999
The author claims that Christians have more holidays than Muslims and thus the author opposes the request of a Coptic priest to recognize the Coptic new year as an official holiday.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 13, 1999
Lebanese researcher George Qirm, a Christian, says "Non-Muslims were only severely persecuted under some Muslim rulers. Sporadic suppression as such was mainly governed by three factors: moody Caliphs, economic and social conditions of Muslim masses and intervention of foreign powers.
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 1999
The focus of the book is the period before the Islamic conquest of Egypt. Several Muslim scholars praised this work. It is a period of Egypt’s history which would deserve more attention in schoolbooks.
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 1999
Book review of a book which was published in 1988! The book is focused on the role of the Copts in Egyptian politics in the period 1900 - 1952 and especially the role of the Coptic politician Makram Ebeid (1889-1961) in that period. The author of the book, Dr. Mustafa el-Fiqi, was advisor of...
Date of source: Monday, October 4, 1999
The Christian author believes the report can have serious negative consequences for Christians in Egypt. The first is that Christians will feel that America is their God Mother that protects them. The second is that Moslems will feel that America is interfering in their internal matters and thus...
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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.