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Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2001
Abud Al-Zumor, the Jihad member who was among the first to sign the initiative denouncing violence was moved from Tora prison, where the members of the shura council of Al-Gama’at Al-Islamiya are serving various prison sentences, to Abu Zabal prison. This was believed to be a step to separate the...
Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2001
The author wonders for whose interests Sheikh Amr Khalid was prevented from preaching. He believes that Khalid was trying to fill the shoes of the late sheikh Sha’arawi, and that the youth have found a replacement who speaks their language.
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2001 to Friday, August 24, 2001
Contradictory fatwas could be welcomed in rituals but not when matters are related to families and personal affairs. The fatwa accepting divorce only if it happens before two witnesses is contrasted by another one accepting the divorce once a man tells his wife "I divorce you." A man who has...
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2001 to Friday, August 24, 2001
The head of the Azhar fatwa committee issued a fatwa limiting divorce to the presence of a third party witness in order to reduce divorces which are becoming a threat to society. The fatwa contradicts all the Sunna heritage and is based on Shiite references.
Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2001
A lawsuit started by a lawyer against Dr. Nawal Sa’adawi to separate her from her husband raised a number of questions about the intentions and secret agendas of some lawyers and the interest groups supporting them. There is an organized group whose main concern may be to start such lawsuits...
Date of source: Monday, August 13, 2001
A number of Coptic lawyers filed a lawsuit against the Minister of Interior to oblige him to register the uniforms of the Coptic Orthodox clergy and to have the wearing of it by anyone but a priest or a monk considered a crime.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 7, 2001
The Coptic Church lawyer filed a suit to prevent Mamdouh Mahran, editor in chief of Al Nabaa, from being given a verdict that enabled him and his son to rejoin the Journalists’ Syndicate.
Date of source: Monday, August 13, 2001
The case of Mamdouh Mahran, the Editor-in-Chief of Al-Nabaa, was reserved to September 16. Mahran’s lawyer said that referring Mahran to the Higher State Security Emergency court was unconstitutional. He asked for the head of Al-Moharraq monastery to introduce a report about the expelled monk and...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 7, 2001
The Coptic Orthodox cathedral is organizing eleven conferences for Coptic youths in the USA and Canada with the aim of tying emigrant Copts to Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2001
Pope Shenouda said that Copts are religiously allowed to be sworn in as witnesses, explaining that this does not contradict Biblical verses that prevent swearing under any circumstances.
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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.