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Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2001 to Friday, March 9, 2001
Some professors think that if male students sit next to their female colleagues something immoral might happen. They consider this to be an evil vicious act. In the Faculty of Commerce a professor refuses to let in male students who apply cream to their hair and female students who wear make-up,...
Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2001 to Friday, March 9, 2001
TV makes some sheikhs seem holy. Omar Abdel Kafi found himself glorified and then infallible and therefore holy. Whatever he said was believed. Abdel Sabour Shahin deceived lots of people by telling them that depositing their money in Al Rayan (An Islamic bank which couldn’t pay back the depositors...
Date of source: Saturday, February 17, 2001 to Friday, February 23, 2001
An American lady, living in Egypt, filed a lawsuit before an Egyptian court claiming that she was persecuted because she is a Shiite. Her husband, who is also her lawyer, is a Shiite but he differs from them in many ways. He wants to get a permit to build a mosque, a hospital and a graveyard. This...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 27, 2000
The American University in Cairo warned a student she may be dismissed after she decided to wear the niqab and they prevented her from attending her classes. The student said that the administration of the University did not try to find a midway solution with her and just took this arbitrary...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 13, 2000
The author criticizes an article by a Dutch Sociology Professor which she describes as a warning for the danger of Islam on society. The article is said to describe Muslims as being cruel, barbarian and backward. The author believes the article reflects European racism against Arabs.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 13, 2000
Marriage between a Muslim man and a Christian or a Jewish woman is allowed in Islamic countries while the opposite is not allowed. The author argues that if Muslims consider Christians people of the book, a Christian man should have the right to marry a Muslim woman. However, if they are...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 6, 2000
Many girls declared their wish to work as marriage officials and explained that such a job is not Haram [religiously forbidden]. Scholars in Jordan explain that men are doing the job and there is no need for women in the field. Other scholars do not mind to have women working as marriage officials...
Date of source: Sunday, October 15, 2000
Washington raised the issue of the Armenian massacre at the hands of the Turks in 1915. This led to a real conflict between America and Turkey regarding religious prosecution. Beside recounting the story of the massacre, the article tries to answer the question of " Why does America arouse this...
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: Tuesday, September 12, 2000
[A Dhimmi: A name used for Christian or a Jewish women who married a Muslim man. The term refers back to the time Christians and Jews were protected under Islamic rule.]
An Egyptian living in the Netherlands, wrote to Aqidati asking whether his Kitabi [person believing in one of the other two "...
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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.