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Date of source: Sunday, May 21, 2000
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-The presidency of Shukri, Hamdi and Idris is not taken into consideration,
-Al-Sha’ab and the papers of the party are suspended until the dispute is settled,
-The file of the Labor Party is transferred to the General Prosecutor.
The committee of parties decided not to take into...
Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2000
Minister of Culture, Farouq Hosni, confirmed that he will stay in his position and won’t be the scapegoat of the government. The Minister ruled out, in an interview with Al- Gezira TV, the idea of dismissing him in order to calm down public opinion after the fierce campaign launched against the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 16, 2000
Al-Shaab launched an attack on the Minister of Culture in several articles in the same issue. Several writers have contributed to this attack in the May 16, issue. Adel Hussein commented on the threats of closing down the Labor Party saying, "Threats of closing down the Party, stopping the paper or...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2000
This article gives a different, and quite refreshing, view of the whole storm that was stirred up by the local press, notably "Al-Shaab", over the novel "A Banquet for Seaweed." The writer asserted that Haider Haider was given on a silver plate the chance of his life to become, almost overnight, a...
Date of source: Friday, May 19, 2000
Dr. Tantawi, the Sheikh of the Azhar, told Sawt Al Azhar, after returning from Saudi Arabia, about the first time he heard about the novel" Banquet for Seaweed." He confirmed that he waited for the Ministry of Culture to bring the novel to the Azhar, but the Minister didn’t take any steps to do so.
Date of source: Friday, May 19, 2000
In his column, Gamal Badawi tried to defend the Azhar by refuting the accusation charged to it, namely, being lenient in dealing with the recent incidents. Regarding the fact that Sheikh of the Azhar was abroad receiving a prize during the crisis, the writer said, the final word about the novel is...
Date of source: Thursday, May 18, 2000
Al-Ahrar writes that the Islamic Research Institute of the Azhar announced that Haider’s novel is full of words that humiliate and insult religion, Allah, the Qur’an and Prophet Mohammed. In addition, it said that the Ministry of Culture did not ask the Azhar for its opinion before publishing the...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 to Saturday, May 20, 2000
In this article, Salah Montassar tries to give an overall view about the novel "A Banquet for Seaweed." Firstly, he exposes and comments on the content of the novel. Then he comments on the revolution against the novel by asking whether it was a sincere revolution for religion or simply a secular...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 17, 2000
The writer of this article wonders why the Ministry of Culture doesn’t publish the works of Egyptian writers first. How could they publish the work of an unknown Syrian writer, while the young writers in Egypt are facing great difficulties in getting their works published.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 17, 2000
After mentioning the reasons that made him refuse to publish Adel Hussein’s article about the novel "A Banquet for Seaweed," Ibrahim Nafie explained his position concerning the novel. In addition, Nafie criticized the way Al-Shaab and Hussein dealt with the novel. Nafie concluded his article by...
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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.