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Date of source: Thursday, March 18, 1999 to Wednesday, March 31, 1999
Last May [1998], students in an American University in Cairo (AUC) course on Muslim politics complained about Maxime Rodinson’s biography "Muhammad". In less than 24 hours after a columnist decried its teaching as blasphemous, Ministry of Higher Education Minister Mufeed Shehab ordered the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 1999
Egyptian people disappeared from Islamic historical books, making Egypt to seem as if it was, on the eve of occupation, an empty, uninhabited stretch of land. Hardly any references have been made to the Egyptian people or the Copts. By omitting the Coptic age in syllabuses they think in a non-...
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...
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The certificates of this lottery have spread among the [Egyptian] Christian youth for a period of several months. It most likely began at some churches, especially the evangelical church, where you can find a big number of high-class youth.
Date of source: Sunday, February 28, 1999 to Saturday, March 6, 1999
The December 17 summons of Professor Samia Mehrez by the American University in Cairo (AUC) administration to explain her choice of a book containing "obscene" passages has mushroomed into something far bigger than anyone originally involved expected. This issue follows the controversy over Maxine...
Date of source: Friday, February 26, 1999
The article gives a brief overview of the history of Muslim-Western relations. He makes suggestions for an approach and understanding between the two cultures.
Date of source: Saturday, February 27, 1999
Traditionally Upper Egypt is well-known for family frictions and feuds with bloody confrontations. Blind loyalty to family groups is rampant in the Upper Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, March 1, 1999
Every actress or belly-dancer has the right to retire and put on a veil. She has the right to choose her own way. But, she does not have the right to play with our religious feelings.
Date of source: Thursday, February 18, 1999 to Wednesday, February 24, 1999
Many young people are coming to believe that Urfi marriage is the only legitimate alternative to premarital sex, which is condemned as sinful. Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, called upon the government to ban Urfi marriages at a Fair seminar last week, saying that "these...
Date of source: Monday, February 15, 1999
The Egyptian Coptic Church objects to the use of the Cross as a trade mark for building materials, windows and doors.
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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.