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Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
The evaluation committee, composed of five eminent Egyptian critics, produced a report in which they explain on which grounds the literary works are evaluated. The committee asserted that a general reading of Haider’s novel doesn’t give the impression that any blasphemy was intended.
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Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
For the third day, several students from the Azhar University joined in a hunger strike inside the male and female dormitories. Students gathered at the University City mosque and shouted against the Government and the Minister of Culture. They refused to participate in negotiations conducted by...
Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
75 students from the Azhar University were detained on accusations of several offenses. Students participating in the riots, denied reading the book and stated that their knowledge was derived only from information published in a newspaper.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2000
75 students were held in detention for 15 days for participating in the Azhar riots, and for some other charges. The students revealed their refusal of Haider’s "Banquet for the Seaweed".
Other articles about the same subject appeared in Al-Akhbar, Al-Wafd, Al-Ahrar of the same day.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 9, 2000
Students of the Azhar University set fire to furniture and attacked the police by throwing stones.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 9, 2000
The article denounces the attacks on this literary work and suggest that another beneficiary party with a vested interest is involved. They further suggest that it looks like life having been freed from most worries and nothing remains but battling over literary works and comb them for offensive...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 9, 2000
Haider is astonished by the critical attack in Egypt against his work" Banquet for the Seaweed". He says that characters in literary works are free to think as they wish, even to adopt opposing thoughts.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2000 to Friday, May 12, 2000
The village of Tanah has about ten or twenty confidence men, who have taken up the profession of blackmailing the dreams of simple people by magic, quackery and stealth.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2000 to Friday, May 12, 2000
Myths are a basic feature of the Israeli community. There is not a single Israeli who can start his or her day without knowing his fortune from his or her fortuneteller in the morning. The Israeli television gives special care to those confidence men, and gives them a lot of air time during the...
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2000 to Friday, May 12, 2000
In spite of the passing of thousands of years since the Israelites left Egypt, a number of them still live there. They refuse to emigrate to Israel, in spite of the offers given to them by Israelis and Jewish organizations. It is funny, however, that this small number of Egyptian Jews still...
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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.