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Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Asharq Al-Awsat obtained the publishing rights of the book written by Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya member Nageh Ibrahim in which he chronicles the ideas of the group’s historical leaders. Titled “Al-Islam wa Tahadiyat Al-Qarn Al-Eshreen” [Islam and the challenges of the 21st century], the book presents...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
Beauty is a principal part of human civilization and of the Islamic faith. This is contrary to the claims of a group of Muslims with distorted thought, that depicts Islam as if it were the enemy of life. • See art. 3: Religious freedom in Islam. • See art. 7: democracy in Islamic thought. • See...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
The hijab is not related to the issue of faith and is not an asl [foundation] of the religion. Forcing a certain type of veil on women or forcing women to abandon it [the veil] violates the human freedom to choose their way of life.
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
Preachers’ salons are back again. These salons are now the fashion among women from the elite class and the wealthy, not only in Cairo but also in a number of governorates. The women are first attracted to such salons by [the desire to hear] Qur’an and learn it by heart. These Qur’an lessons later...
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 2004
The Court of Appeals reached its decision in the case of Al-Kosheh after examining the appeals made by the accused for the second time.
The Court decided to uphold the verdict issued by the Sohag Criminal Court which sentenced the top suspect Fayiz Muhammad Abdel Reheem to thirteen years in prison...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 2004
The American University in Cairo has put a strange condition on its admissions application: Any girl who applies to AUC cannot wear the niqab and must accept all university policy. The application also requires the student or her parents to sign a vow that she will not wear anything that covers her...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 2004
Tomorrow, Dr. Nabil Luqa Bebawi will discuss his dissertation at the Higher Studies Faculty at the Police Academy, titled “The rights and duties of Christians under the Islamic State and their impact on national security.” The dissertation was supervised by Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, the Minister...
Date of source: Monday, June 21, 2004
It is important to warn against what Dr. Milad Hanna said in the program “Khana Lak” [a space for you]. In the program, Dr. Hanna said, “It is good that you [addressing the host of the program] talked about the right of determining sovereignty. Many Egyptians here say that the Sudanese got their...
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 2004
The book al-Mowarana il Awlama: al-A qbat fi Alam Motaghayer (Citizenship and Globalisation: Copts in a Changing World) by Hany Labib, published by Dar al-Shorouq in 2004 in Arabic, tackles the relationship between Copts and their homeland, in the era of globalisation. Within the context of present...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
In a lecture held at the Alexandria Sporting Club, the Grand Imam of the Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, and Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of Alexandria, called for the teaching of ethics in schools, in addition to a religious education class that should not be eliminated.
The two religious...
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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.