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Date of source: Saturday, April 30, 2005
Celebrating the Passover, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported an alliance of 20 organizations of the Jews from Egyptian origin, in Israel and around the world, on the demand to save the Jewish legacy in Cairo and Alexandria.
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
The article discusses the contents of the Jewish Cabala and the Gnostic concepts it dealt with. Among these concepts are allusions or concealment, divinity and transmigration.
Date of source: Sunday, April 11, 2004
Victor Nehemias, who spent half his life in Egypt and is now in his seventies, recently published a book called “The man who was born twice: The story of an Egyptian Jew who emigrated to Israel.”
Nehemias writes that he is a victim of the Arab-Israeli conflict that transformed him from being an...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2005
Jews in Egypt are made up of two main ethnic groups, Ashkenazim, Eastern European Jews, and Sefardim, Jews who lived in the East. The latter group is less sympathetic toward the Zionist movement, and they do not differ from the rest of the Egyptians in terms of language, dialect, features or...
Date of source: Sunday, September 9, 2001
The Administrative Judiciary Court of Alexandria cancelled the celebration of the mulid of the Jewish rabbi Abu Hasera and annulled a decree from the Minister of Culture, which considered the tomb of Abu Hasera to be one of the Egyptian Coptic and Islamic monuments. It also refused to allow the...
Date of source: Monday, August 27, 2001
The Egyptian Administrative Judiciary Court set the session of September 5 for giving their ruling regarding the lawsuit that was filed to cancel the celebration of the mulid of the Jewish rabbi, Abu Hasera, and for the removal of his mortal remains from the country.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 31, 2001
There was discrepancy between the news published about the celebration of the mulid of Abu Hasera. Al-Qahira wrote that Israel did not cancel the mulid. This statement quoted the Israeli newspapers, which in turn quoted the official statement of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo. Al-Gomhoriyya reported...
19. Parliamentary objections to the government’s banning and then permitting the Mulid of Abu Hasera
Date of source: Sunday, January 14, 2001
The agreement of the Egyptian government to celebrate the mulid of Abu Hasera led to a crisis between it and members of parliament. The members representing Baheira said that the government’s agreement to hold the mulid after it had previously cancelled it challenged the feelings of the Egyptians...
Date of source: Saturday, January 6, 2001 to Friday, January 12, 2001
The Ministry of Waqfs received a letter from the head of the Jewish community, donating all Jewish possessions to the Ministry. The decision was made because there were no Jewish readers left in Egypt and because she had suffered many blackmail attempts.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 13, 2000
As always, Israel tries to divert the attention from important issues to marginal ones. This time it brings to the surface the case of the Jewish properties in Egypt, which were left behind, following the departure of their owners in the 1940s and 1950s.
Akhar Saa’ met the Jewish woman who is...
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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.