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Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 1999
Following one of the fiercest gun battles between Islamic militants and the police since November 1997, the Ministry of Interior announced on September 7, that its troops had shot and killed four suspected militants in their hideout on the outskirts of Giza.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 1999
The Islamic Research Institute decided that what the author wrote was an effort to understand the Qur’anic text. " The committee does not agree to some of the contents of this effort but the committee does not see that the author has contradicted the basis of Faith or religion.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 22, 1999
Reasons are given why some women wear the headscarf and sometimes even cover their face with the nigab and why others don’t do this.
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
It is time to do Dr. Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid justice and give him his credit back and remove the injustice done to him. We need his mind, his thinking and his personal interpretation in a phase in which Egypt suffers of the scarcity of intellectuals and lives a mixed and mingled reality that needs big...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 1999
The author of this article argues that the Jews are using stories in the Torah (which he regards as myths) to arouse the religious enthusiasm of the Jews and direct it to serve the goal of making Jerusalem Jewish, and fulfilling the goal of making it the eternal capital of Israel.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 15, 1999
"The artifacts and monuments used by Egypt’s Jews are part of our national heritage. They tell the story of the Jewish community in Egypt over the centuries." This is how Mohsen Abdel-Rahman Rabi’, director of the Department of Jewish Antiquities (DJA) at the Supreme Council of Antiquities,...
Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 1999
Tomorrow, the Egyptian Church celebrates the beginning of the new Coptic year - the year 1716 of the Martyrs which is known as the feast of Nairouz. Prayers will begin in churches today in the evening and will continue until tomorrow morning.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 15, 1999
Pope John Paul will briefly visit St. Catherine’s monastery in the Sinai Peninsula in December as part of a trip he has planned to mark the new millennium, an aide to the Greek Orthodox Bishop of Sinai said on September 2.
Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 1999
Some Coptic leaders have asked that the church excommunication law be brought up before the Holy Council because Pope Shenouda, head of this council, had suspended 11 priests and forbidden prayers over the bodies of several important deceased.
Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 1999
Priest Ibrahim Abdel Sayyed died of a heart attack. He got the rest for which he longed, but the case that was raised after his death is not closed yet. Christians expected that Pope Shenouda would permit prayers over the body, but the opposite occurred. Pope Shenouda called especially from the...
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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.