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Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
Dr. Abdel-Mo´ti Bayoumi expressed the opinion that Muslims need to adopt a religious discourse that can reconcile them with the whole world. He added that all scholars have the right to give fatwas and even women can give fatwas.
Date of source: Sunday, February 17, 2002
[The name Showman is a translitteration from the Arabic. It could also be Schoemann]
Date of source: Friday, February 8, 2002
It was reported that America asked some Islamic countries to develop their religious education and that an American-British delegation had visited the Azhar to get acquainted with its curricula. The papers reported such news items play a negative role, as they give the impression that the mission...
Date of source: Friday, January 18, 2002
America thinks that Israelis are Semites, and by supporting Israel, it is supporting Semitism. America thinks that whoever does not support Israel is anti-Semitic. Since Arabs do not support Israel, they are anti-Semitic. The author believes that it is nonsense to say that Arabs are anti-Semitic...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2002
President of the Azhar University responds to George Bush Jr. He demands that Islamic leaders contend against Western allegations and Western accusations against Islam and Muslims. He adds that those allegations and accusations have reached a point where the West is demanding the closing of the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 12, 2002 to Friday, January 18, 2002
Almost one month after the September 11 attacks, a British delegation asked to visit the Azhar and its institutes, and conduct interviews with students to know their opinions and beliefs. The president of the division of the Azhari institutes told the delegation that the main significance of the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 12, 2002 to Friday, January 18, 2002
In this article, the Egyptian Minister of Education comments on the fear that the United States will start interfering in the education system of Arab countries like Egypt because they embrace Islam as the national religion. He said that no person, government or organization has the right to...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2002
The American Administration asked some Arab countries to amend their school curriculums. This story did not start with the September 11 incidents but began some months before when the US State Department made a study, in cooperation with the European Union (EU), of the curriculums for the different...
Date of source: Monday, January 14, 2002
The author believes some of the articles that were published in the American Newsweek magazine to be part of an organized attack against Islam in the Western media. The articles dealt with the political, cultural, educational and economical issues in the Islamic and Arab countries. These articles...
Date of source: Saturday, January 5, 2002 to Friday, January 11, 2002
The US accused the Azhar University of teaching students by using a strict approach that leads to extremist thinking and to the establishment of terrorism. That was why the US asked the Islamic countries to reconsider the approaches they take in religious education. The article gives the comment of...
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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.