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Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2005
Aljazeera satellite news channel
has just started to reap what it had sown. I wonder whether the person who recently blew up a school in Qatar was a
terrorist, a suicide bomber, a fedayee or a resistance element. Aljazeera were supporting terrorists, making them look like
as if they were the...
Date of source: Monday, March 21, 2005
Al-Usbou‘ of March 14, 2005 has severely attacked without any sense of decorum the organizations that received a one-million-dollar grant from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.
The paper even accused recipients of the grant of “betraying the nation” and the ministry of social affairs of slackness as to...
Date of source: Sunday, March 6, 2005
Earlier this month, writer and intellectual Tareq al-Bishri wrote in the Cairo weekly al – Osbou [al-Usbouc] that about a billion dollars find their way into the Coptic Church’s coffers every year. No one, he wrote, even remotely knows how these funds are spent, since the Church behaves as a...
Date of source: Saturday, February 26, 2005
Most of the Arab news TV stations use some cinema tricks to balloon incidents and news reports and perhaps fabricate groundless reports. They sometimes twist ordinary incidents to give hideous impressions and depict those incidents as if they were the end of the world.
Date of source: Saturday, February 26, 2005
Dr. Fārouq Abu Zayd, a mass communication professor at Cairo University, and journalists discuss the problems associated to incitement in Egyptian media.
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
Following are the details for the story of the Holy Virgin’s church, awaited so eagerly by some 750 families – about 3500 individuals in the old and new towns of Burg al – Arab [Burj al-cArab] and some 40 villages in the vicinity. The projected church was effectively dropped after 16 years of...
Date of source: Monday, June 13, 2005
Watani editor-in-chief Youssef Sidhum’s articles based on complaints from involved churches or Christians. Examples are stories on problems in church building in Burj al-Arab and Alamayn. Interesting Egyptian critique on the way some of their media function.
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2005
The sectarian incidents which last December exploded in Assiut [Asyout], and later in Beheira [al-Buhayra], drew our attention to the manner in which the Egyptian media had handled the issue. In the majority of cases, press coverage of the incidents was unreasonable, irrational, and bordering on...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2005
While those who convert to Islam, such as Cat Stevens, Jemina Khan, and Lord Birt, the former BBC Director – General, can publicly celebrate their new religion, those whose faith goes in the other direction face persecution.
Muslims who lose their faith face execution or imprisonment, in line with...
Date of source: Monday, February 7, 2005
The article by Ms. Karīmān Hamza, published by Sawt al-Umma last week, pushed me to rewrite on sedition and Coptic problems.
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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.