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Date of source: Wednesday, November 22, 2000
Cornelis Hulsman, editor-in-chief of the RNSAW, said during conference on "Media and Interreligious Dialogue," in Vienna, that "Accurate reporting on religious issues can result in understanding and dialogue while inaccurate reporting can have the opposite effect." He criticized much Western press...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 22, 2000
Sheikh Fawzy Al-Zafzaf, the head of the Inter-Religious Dialogue Committee of the Azhar received the delegation of the Austrian Committee of Permanent Dialogue. The delegation asked many questions about women’s rights in Islam, especially that of Christian women who were divorced from their Muslim...
Date of source: Sunday, November 26, 2000
Some independents joined the National Democratic Party (NDP) for two reasons; the periodical meetings held by its head, president Mubarak, as well as its political club allows the NDP’s representatives to discuss the problems of their constituencies in the presence of the political leadership....
Date of source: Wednesday, November 22, 2000
Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, a Copt, won the internal election of the Wafd Party and becomes the head of the Wafd bloc in the parliament for the coming five years. Sources of the party said that the nomination of Abdel Nour should confirm that part of the public refuses denominational conflicts and...
Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2000
The General Secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities signed the contract of restoring the monastery of Anba Antonius in the governorate of the Red Sea. The restoration will cost 16 million pounds.
Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2000
Dr. Nasr Abu Zayd delivered this lecture upon accepting the prestigious Cleveringa professorial chair at Leiden University in The Netherlands with the request to teach justice, freedom and responsibility and especially the freedom of religion and liberty of conscience. The lecture discussed the...
Date of source: Saturday, November 25, 2000
In the Student Union elections of this year in the Egyptian Universities the extremists lost. The moderate current won the elections in all the faculties with the exception of the faculty of Medicine, where the religious current won 25% of the positions. Extremists no longer control the Faculty of...
Date of source: Saturday, November 25, 2000
Religious extremists started campaigning against Rose Al-Youssef because it published a series of taped interviews with them which unleashed their thoughts, methods and goals. Yasser Al-Serri felt cornered after the magazine revealed the unimportance of his role, and how flat his ideas are. Sheikh...
Date of source: Friday, November 17, 2000
The organization of "Journalists Without Boundaries" declared, in a statement that it asked Egypt to investigate the incident of two journalists who were attacked while covering the parliamentary elections. The organization said that that it sent a message to the Minister of Interior, in which it...
Date of source: Monday, November 20, 2000
Saad Eddin Ibrahim and 27 others are facing charges ranging from accepting foreign money without government approval to issuing false statements about the country’s internal situation. In a statement nine international human rights organizations expressed concern that the trial will not meet...
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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.