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Date of source: Monday, September 13, 1999
The final curtain was drawn on the case concerning Dr. Abdel Sabour Shahin’s book "My Father Adam... The Story of Creation between Fantasy And Reality" after the committee formed by the Islamic Research Academy decided that what the author wrote was a attempt to understand the Qur’anic text and...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
A review of the book: "The Marriage Bed. Sexuality in Islam" by Abdelwahab Bouhdiba. Published in London by Saqi Books, 1998. In this book is one of the few attempts at dealing with the dimension of sexuality in the teachings of Islam and the way in which these teachings have become distorted by...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
An Egyptian-Japanese team unearthed a mosque in South Sinal which dates back to the ninth century A.D. Archeologists believe that the mosque is the oldest one ever built in the Sinai.
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
The bookshop of Mohamed Ali Sobeih in Al-Azhar Street was up once again for auction last week. The bookshop, which also includes a printing press, was built in 1900 and is renowned for its collection of 5,000 masterpieces of Arab and Islamic culture.
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Officials at Al Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious institution, are in the process of preparing a religious edict they hope will help discourage the controversial practice of naming commercial enterprises after any of the 99 names of God.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
The number of divorces in Egypt is on the rise according to a Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) study reported in the Egyptian opposition daily Al Wafd. While there were 67,000 divorce cases filed in 1990, by 1997 that number had jumped to 71,000. Last year the number...
Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 1999
There is a great difference between Judaism and Zionism. Egypt has never hated the Jews.
But Egyptians hate Zionists who are calling for a greater Israel from The Nile up till the Euphrates. Zionism has become a kind of religion for Zionists.
Date of source: Sunday, September 5, 1999
The accident of Beni Suef caused the death of 30 young Christian men and women and 11 were injured. The bishop suggests that the suitable compensation for the families of the killed people would be building a church in Samalout.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Eighty-five per cent of road accidents are a result of human error, 5% are caused by deficient roads and 10% are due to faulty vehicles. However, many put most of the blame on the government. Mild penalties were singled out as a major factor behind the phenomenon.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
While the buck is passed around and new legislation discussed, two fatal car crashes this week killed 19 people.
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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.