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Date of source: Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Half a century after it was banned, Najīb Mahfouz’s controversial novel, Awlād Hāritnā, is returning to the Egyptian market, this time with an introduction by Islamic thinker Ahmad Kamāl Abu al-Majd at the request of Mahfouz himself.
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2006
Awlād Hāritnā, the controversial novel by Najīb Mahfouz caused controversy both when it was published and again in 1988 when the Swedish Nobel academy announced that Mahfouz had won its prize for literature and praised his novel as "spiritual”.
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2006
Khālid Bura‘ī presents a list of banned books in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2006
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he personally condemned the cartoons published in Jyllands-Posten. In an interview with the Danish TV2 station, Rasmussen said that he respected religious beliefs and that would prevent him from depicting Muhammad, Jesus or any other religious symbol...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2006
A discussion of homosexuality and Egyptian law taken from a bachelor’s thesis on Egyptian law.
Date of source: Monday, January 23, 2006
The alliance is spearheaded by al-Zumur from within his jail on behalf of all the detained Islamist groups, while al-Durīnī represents the Shiites of Egypt and Coptic lawyer Mamdouh Nakhla, the director of al-Kalima human rights center, represents Egyptian Christians.
Date of source: Monday, January 23, 2006
The decree designating Saturday, instead of Thursday, a day off in addition to the traditional Friday has caused a Muslim Brotherhood member of parliament to accuse the government of complimenting Jews.
Date of source: Sunday, January 22, 2006
President Mubārak is always eager to please the Copts and solve their problems, political advisor to President Mubārak, Dr. Usāma al-Bāz told Watanī newspaper.
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2006
Nearly 453 Muslim Brotherhood activists, detained during the recent parliamentary elections, were released yesterday, an official source told al-Hayāt. Meanwhile, the United States has recently decided to break off negotiations on the Free Trade Agreement with Egypt, arguing that Egypt has slowed...
Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2006
Nabīl Sāmu’īl Abādīr argues that NGOs promoting democracy should themselves be democratic.
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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.