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Date of source: Friday, December 8, 2000
The East of Alexandria prosecution office ordered the imprisonment of 12 persons accused in participating in violent clashes between Muslims and Christians. Investigations reveled that the clashes took place because of differences over the building of a church.
Date of source: Friday, November 10, 2000
What the Brotherhood achieved in these elections arouses many questions. How were they able to win these 15 seats? How will they act in the parliament? Are they going to cause a clash in the parliament which they entered after exerting such a great effort? Will they exert an effort to issue a law...
Date of source: Sunday, November 12, 2000
The Brotherhood’s success in these elections is sending many messages to the government. First, beside winning 15 seats, they were able to penetrate the siege of the security around the polling stations because they were able to reach the polling centers in different ways. Second, their success was...
Date of source: Thursday, October 5, 2000
The general assembly of the Lycee Champollion d’Alexandrie decided to expel the veiled student, Azza Amr Mohammed Zaki, and her three brothers, who attend the same school. The justification given for the dismissal were security reasons.
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2000
The author argues that the non-implementation of the recommendations of the report by a special committee convened to look into the communal violence in Al-Khanka in 1972, the Al-Oteify report, led indirectly to the recent communal violence in Al-Kosheh, because the underlying issues were not...
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
The crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood continued as the prosecutor-general extended the detention of 20 alleged Brotherhood activists, arrested two weeks ago, by another 15 days pending investigation.
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
A controversial fatwa, or religious edict, issued by Sheikh Al Azhar proclaiming that it is against Islamic religious precepts to borrow money for the purpose of conspicuous consumption could derail an upcoming mortgage law and further stall the economy.
Date of source: Saturday, October 23, 1999
Sheikha Nadia has made a big name for herself among the people and in the local press. Thousands of people from various parts of the country as far field as the south Egyptian town of Aswan flocked to Abbis, a small village near the coastal town of Alexandria. They were after one thing: the...
Date of source: Saturday, May 22, 1999 to Friday, May 28, 1999
In Alexandria, Mohammed Ibrahim Mahfouz, an ex-chairman of an Alexandria maritime company and the holder of a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy, claims to be God and the prophet Mohammed. He says people should pray towards him, and that the Hajj can be made at his apartment instead of going to Makkah...
Date of source: Thursday, April 1, 1999 to Wednesday, April 14, 1999
An Alexandria prosecutor has decided to charge 19 members of a dissident sect for religious contempt, judicial officials announced on 25 March.
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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.