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Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 2004
The idea of translating the Talmud, the holiest book for Jews, has always remained the dream of many Egyptian and Arab intellectuals.
Dr. Rashad Abdullah Al-Shami, the chairman of the first department specialized in teaching Hebrew and Israeli studies at Ain Shams University, discovered an Arabic...
Date of source: Monday, May 31, 2004
Archpriest Habeel Tawfiq is accused of illegally taking possession of LE50,000. The money was given to Habeel by his son Magid, [in his capacity as] chairman of the Association of Martyr Mari Mina and Pope Kyrillos, as a donation to the Church of the Virgin Mary and Habeel the Pious. It was later...
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 2004
The author of the article published in the newspaper of Al-Midan under the title “Beware of the movie “The Passion of the Christ.,” like many other unknowledgeable writers, accused Christians of unbelief. Some people mistakenly believe that Christianity is a religion of multiple gods. Those people...
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 2004
In an unprecedented move, a number of intellectuals, journalists and writers, many of them journalists of Watani newspaper, submitted a memorandum to the Supreme Council of Press protesting what the prominent Muslim scholar Dr. Muhammad Emara writes in Al-Akhbar. Emara is accused of launching...
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 2004
Muhammad Emara continues his uninterrupted attack on Christianity in the newspaper of Al-Akhbar which is, supposedly, a national paper that should not be open to this type of writings that offend the faith of Egyptian citizens.
This type of writings shows that the creation of political parties on...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 1, 2004
The desert surrounding Naqada is home to seven monasteries that have been founded between the fourth and the seventh century AD. Rare monumental icons are hung on the walls of these monasteries.
The Higher Council for Antiquities cooperates with the owners of these monasteries in order to preserve...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 2, 2004
Maxime Rodinson died last week at the age of 89. Unfortunately, no one has written enough about this author who produced dozens of books objectively tackling the Arab-Israeli conflict. Although he was himself a Jew, this led Israel to accuse him of being anti-Semitic.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 8, 2004
Maxime Rodinson died last week at the age of 89. Perhaps this is the opportunity to defend the French Orientalist from Arab accusations and the subsequent marginalization of his role and works. While Cairo protested his book about the Prophet Muhammad thirty years ago, the Beirut publishing house...
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
The Egyptian Higher Institute for Culture sponsored the Conference on Translating and Connecting Cultures, aiming to connect civilizations and eliminate misunderstandings between different cultures. As a result of the political conditions surrounding the Arab region, participants spent the four...
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 2004
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Sayyed Tantawi, rejected any interference in the affairs of Muslims under the guise of calls for change and reform. He announced that no one interferes in Al-Azhar’s affairs, including the President or any other authority in the country. He also stressed that...
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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.