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Date of source: Monday, May 7, 2001
A Christian mother and Muslim father are battling in a US civil court for custody of their 3 small children. The father has asked the courts to give him sole custody of the children in order to ensure that the children to be "influenced" by Christianity. It does appear that the court will strip the...
Date of source: Friday, April 27, 2001
This press release compliments the previous article in RNSAW and sees this as an encouragement to use new information technology for Coptic activists living outside Egypt.
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Academic article on the impact of the Coptic lobby outside Egypt, a relatively small group of people who use the latest communication technology to increase their voice.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 24, 2001
Professor Abdel-Sabour Shahin and Dr. Omar Abdel-Kafi explained everybody in Heaven will be thirty-three years old, the age of Christ when he ascended to Heaven [according to the Muslim version of the story]. They will also be as big as Adam, as good-looking as Joseph, and as well spoken as...
Date of source: Monday, April 30, 2001
Islamist MPs ask for reforming some articles in the Emergency Law, with the aim of making the punishment those who defame religions and holy books receive more severe. They introduced an information request to the Prime Minister and the Grand Imam concerning disdaining religious sacredness.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Nawal Al-Sa’adawi recounted the story of the interview one of the independent newspapers ran with her. She said that her words were changed, wondering whether she was stupid to excite millions of Muslims by saying, at the time of pilgrimage, that pilgrimage is paganism. She stressed that she would...
Date of source: Sunday, April 29, 2001
Cairo Criminal Court acquitted the former head of the Azhar Scholars Front of defaming the Sheikh of the Azhar. The court stressed that the former used his constitutional right in criticizing the Grand Imam and that the aim of the criticism was public interest.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 24, 2001
The Sheikh of the Azhar dismissed a professor in the faculty of Usul El-Din [fundamentals of religion] and a member in the Azhar Scholars Front. He considered that what the professor wrote in one of the newspapers was a defamation of his character and objected to his decisions. The author wonders...
Date of source: Saturday, April 28, 2001
The article sheds light on the extremists’ attempts to control sporting clubs and youth centers within their bid to dominate the largest possible sector of Egypt, 27 million young people, in order to guarantee a longer existence.
Date of source: Thursday, April 26, 2001
The Muslim Brotherhood group was able to defeat its Islamic political rivals, the Jihad and the Gama’at Al-Islamiya, in the Bar Association. This was after a crisis started raising questions about the possibility of radical groups carrying out political work in an inappropriate way after their...
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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.