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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, July 10, 1999 to Friday, July 16, 1999
The RNSAW gave a summary of both Rose el-Yousef articles in RNSAW, week 28, edition July 9-15, 1999. Since several readers asked for the full text that text is given in this issue together with comments from Evangelical Egyptian church leaders.
Wa’el Lotfi writes about the opposition of Egypt’s...
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 1999
The discussion at the press conference of the New York Council of Churches on June 28 [transcript presented in last week’s RNSAW] was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union. Before the press conference Drs. Cornelis Hulsman interviewed Rafique Iscander, chairman and founder of the...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
Since the Egyptian media have frequently referred to the press conference on Christian girls allegedly being kidnapped the RNSAW decided to present here the full transcript of the discussion which took place in New York. The discussion was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union who had...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 1999
In the mind of the author, the report of Drs. Cornelis Hulsman prepared for the New York Council of Churches a few weeks ago regarding the alleged kidnappings, rapes and forced conversions to Islam of young Christian girls was like a bomb destroying the claims of the Coptic groups in the USA who...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 1999
Jerusalem’s Arab population is increasing three times as fast as its Jewish population, according to a study released on Monday [July 26, 1999]. Right-wing Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert called on the Labor government of Prime Minister Ehud Barak to increase the building of affordable housing in the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 25, 1999
Concerning what was published about the small village called "Rizqat Al-Deir Al-Muharraq", the manager of the Public Relations Department at the governor’s office sent a letter in order to respond to the request of the people. He claimed that the villagers have no right to be provided with the...
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999 to Wednesday, July 28, 1999
What have women done towards preventing ethnic cleansing in Kosovo? How are women contributing to the Middle East peace process? What part can they play in building understanding between people of different faiths? What can they do now to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor? These issues...
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999
International terrorism began long time ago. It began since the Second World War and the Cold war (1947-1991). Due to these two wars, Israel appeared and it encouraged terrorism and used it especially against the people who were opposing its policy. But there are some solutions for this problem...
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
’Putting Islam to Work’ joins a growing corpus of scholarly works on social change in Egypt and the Middle East which shun those modernization paradigms which inaccurately polarize Muslim societies and their educational institutions into false dichotomies of modern versus traditional, secular...
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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.