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Date of source: Monday, May 17, 1999
The Al-Azhar Scholars’ Front returns and its last president says they will concentrate on issues concerning the Sunna [Islamic tradition], and will be confronting the Ibn Khaldoun Centre. They are also willing to let bygones be bygones with Sheikh Sayyed Tantawi, the Sheikh of Al-Azhar.
Date of source: Friday, May 7, 1999
The article claims that the educational curricula being developed at the Ibn Khaldoun Centre is part of a Zionist plot to destroy faith and Islam. It attacks Ahmed Mansour, an academic who was sacked from his job at Al-Azhar University for claiming that the prophets, including the prophet Mohammed...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 5, 1999
The author states that the Ibn Khaldoun Center which is a centre for [social] development has recently arrogated to itself more powers to the point of intervening to change the curriculum for the religious subjects taught in the primary and preparatory schools. He also talks about Dr Ahmed Sobhi...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 4, 1999
More protest against the curricula development project at the Ibn Khaldoun Centre. The anonymous author lists that he regards as the three focal points of the Center’s policies.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 4, 1999
The proposed curricula are a part of a Zionist project to attack our belief and creed. The minister himself is to be questioned about using these curricula in our schools. Those behind the project are influenced by Western values and try to destroy Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, March 27, 1999
Charged by the Ministry of Education, Muslim and Christian experts from all national trends joined the committee to rewrite the syllabuses about the history of Egypt -- until the Ibn Khaldoun Center began to spread its sectarian ideas about minorities. A summary of interviews with a professor in...
Date of source: Monday, March 22, 1999
The Ibn Khaldoun Center is criticized for holding a seminar to discuss the benefits of marrying Israeli women, which concluded that the purpose of encouraging such marriages is to limit the state of tension between the two peoples and to reduce violence by blending in and to peacefully co-existing...
11. Minister of Education Dr. Hussein Bahaa’ Al-Din: Copts are present in the educational syllabuses
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 1999
The Minister of Education Dr. Hussein Bahaa’ Al-Din insists that the existing educational syllabuses are against extremism, addiction and ethnic discrimination, and teach tolerance and that while there is a deficiency in some syllabuses he has charged d the Higher Committee for History with the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 1999
Anybody who seeks some fame, and not least access to unlimited funds, can now harp on the tune of minorities in Egypt. This has been the case with ’Ibn Khaldoun Center’ which leaves no opportunity slip by without speaking about the rights of minorities in Egypt and suggesting that they are being...
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The Ibn Khaldoun Center is accused to take every opportunity to speak about the existence of a minority in Egypt. The author of the article, obviously, doesn’t believe the Copts are a minority. It points to the fact that the Ibn Khaldoun Center receives much financing from abroad.
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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.