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Date of source: Monday, September 27, 2004
A conference on the freedom of expression was lately held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in
cooperation with both the Reform Forum, affiliated with the Bibliotheca, and representatives of
freedom of expression from Norway.
The conference reviewed Arab and Norwegian reports about
the statuses of...
Date of source: Friday, October 1, 2004
Holding the conference on freedom of expression at the same time of the second annual
conference of the National Democratic Party is a mere coincidence. The difference between the
official view of reformation and what the Arab intellectuals aim at, is clear. Each view seems as
if it is related...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Dr. Moussa Hawamda, a
Jordanian poet, has become very famous in the last five years after the recent campaign against
his collection of poems My Trees Are Higher issued in fall 1999. Moussa Hawamda who was brought
before the Jordanian court five years ago and then sentenced to six months...
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
The
Alexandria Document on the “Problems of Arab Reform: Vision and Implementation" presented a
vision of the change which Arab intellectuals aspire for in the Arab World, along political,
economic, social, cultural and civil society axes.
The aspired reform calls for giving civil
society free...
Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2004
There has been an uproar in
Spain due to a religious book written by the mosque Imam Sheikh Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, titled
"Women in Islam." Women’s rights groups denounced the book. They think that the book urges
violence against women.
The problem about the book is the part in which Sheikh...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 3, 2004
The article reports about Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, an Egyptian
Imam living in Spain who was sentenced to jail and fined 2,160 Euro by a Spanish court. Mustafa
is accused of publishing a book in which he says that punishing a disobedient woman should be
done through light beating.
The court...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 17, 2004
The author explains the misunderstanding of the concept of “secularism." in Islamic and Arab
societies; secularism is presented as a call for atheism and apostasy. Based on this
misunderstanding, some launched an attack on France because the country has banned religious
symbols in public schools...
Date of source: Sunday, March 28, 2004
There has been a wide political debate about a
judicial complaint calling for the confiscation of the book “Al-Hijab: Ro’ya ‘Assriya” [The
Headscarf: A Contemporary Perspective] by and the dismissal of the author and editor-in-chief of
Hawa [Eve] magazine Iqbal Baraka from her job.
The...
Date of source: Monday, April 26, 2004
The Minister of Justice issued the confidential decree to give the sheikhs of the Azhar the right to “judicial seizure.” That means they will be able to attack any publishing house and search it for banned books at any moment.
Whoever has “judicial seizure” authority has the right to break into a...
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 2004
Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi expressed her anger over the decision of the Islamic Research Institution to confiscate her famous novel “Soqout Al-Imam” [the fall of the Imam] which was printed for the first time 20 years ago. The novel was translated into 14 languages. The new battle between the Azhar and...
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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.