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Date of source: Sunday, July 21, 2002
Some Copts evaluate the July Revolution from a sectarian perspective. They believe that the revolution put an end to the rich Copts when it confiscated their lands and other properties. In addition, the revolution did not solve the problems of Copts. However, the revolution erupted for both Muslims...
Date of source: Monday, February 20, 2006
The author argues that Copts’ blood and honor are targeted by the state, as represented by the security authorities and extremists.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 14, 2006
The author argues that the characters in Nobel laureate Najīb Mahfouz’s novel Awlād Hāritnā strongly represent those of the 1952 revolution and its incidents and shifts, contrary to the notion that it has represented certain prophets and involved despising religion.
Date of source: Thursday, February 2, 2006
The director of the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Strategic Studies, Dr. Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, lashed out at political Islam movements. He blames them for their illiberal approach, which he thinks dominates the Arab world at the present time, but supports an increase in their status so long as they are...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 7, 2006
The author reviews a period in history when Egypt served as a base for the Arab caliphs to conquer Africa.
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The author says that Islam has stressed equality between men and women in all rights and duties, including the civil, economic, educational, political and work rights.
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: Wednesday, January 18, 2006
On the 52nd anniversary of the 1954 proclamation dissolving the Muslim Brotherhood, Khālid Mahmoud Ramadān writes that the clear political platform of Egypt’s largest opposition group has secured it an unprecedented 88 seats in parliament.
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 2004
The literature and the slogans of the Brotherhood imply their hostility towards democracy. But today the highest Brotherhood juristic reference Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi announced a new interpretation that can be summed up in Al-Qaradawi’s words “democracy is the spirit of Islam.” Al-Qaradawi’s...
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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.