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Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2000
The Supreme State Security Prosecution is conducting investigations with Eid Wardani, the writer of the book "The story of the creation from the beginning to the throne". The writer is accused of including insults against the Islamic scholars in his book.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Sunday, May 14, 2000
In this article, Azazi urged people to recognize each other’s perspectives without interchanging accusations of impiety and ignorance. According to him the case of the banquet revealed that there are still defects in dealing with crisis.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Sunday, May 14, 2000
More than 1500 persons applauded and shouted urging the destitution of the Culture Minister, Farouk Hosni, during last Friday’s conference of the Amal [Labor] party. The publishers of Al-Shaab Newspaper launched a severe campaign against the writer of the novel "Banquet for the seaweed" and accused...
Date of source: Friday, April 7, 2000 to Saturday, May 13, 2000
The unsuccessful writer Mohammed Abbas, caused a blaze of sedition in the already boiling Egyptian society with his enthusiastic article, last Friday, in which he criticized the novel "Banquet for the seaweed". With this article, Abbas launched a war of impiety against many writers and...
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2000 to Saturday, May 13, 2000
As Dr. Mohammed Abbas has the right to criticize the novel "A Banquet for the seaweed", and to express whatever he likes, we also can give our opinion without being banned. Mohammed Al-Qodousi’s analysis of the novel is more important than that of Abbas.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2000
In a special declaration to Al-Ahrar newspaper, the Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, revealed that his ministry did not confiscate the novel "A banquet for the seaweed" by the Syrian writer Haider Haider, and it was not taken off the market. He added that the committee which examine the novel...
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2000
The novel of the Syrian writer started a controversy between the intellectuals about the freedom of creativity and it’s relation to freedom in general, Al-Usboa listed the opinions of some key figures in the camp of literature, such as, Ahmed El-Sheikh, Fou’ad Qandeel
and many others.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2000
The Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni defended the lately controversial novel "Banquet for the seaweed" by the Syrian writer Haider Haider. The Minister criticized the polemic and described it as "non objective dealing, which aimed achieving only political targets, for the benefit of it’s promoters...
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2000 to Friday, May 12, 2000
Hanaa Fathi describes Haider’s book as a "wonderful novel". Haider Haider foresaw what happened in Algeria. Haider developed the story along two parallel lines, one extremely political and the other, delicate fine literature. Both lines ended in a mythological love story.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2000 to Friday, May 12, 2000
During the last two weeks Egypt has witnessed unprecedented terrorism, and a lot of Fatwas for shedding the blood of the Culture Minister and some intellectuals who are all accused of impiety. The objective of those who declared the war against the [polemic novel] "Banquette for the seaweed" is to...
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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.