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Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2007
Two 13-year-old Christian kids were forced to sit an Islamic education exam at school after their father’s conversion to Islam. Their mother filed a claim and complained to the civil status court.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Counselor Najīb Jibrā’īl lodged an appeal against the memorandum of state adviser Maḥmūd Rajab in which he stated that Islam should be imposed on Christian children whose fathers have converted to Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2006
The article praises the legal procedure taken against ‘Brotherhood Militias’ that
appeared in the Azhar University
as a step forward to separating the state from religion.
Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2006
Nabīl Zakī reports about how the issue of human rights is being tackled in educational religious curricula.
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2006
A diplomatic tug-of-war has erupted between Syria and The
Netherlands following the alleged abduction of two Dutch children by their Syrian father in August 2004.
Dutch
Foreign Minister Bernard Bot refused an invitation from his Syrian counterpart, Walīd al-
Mu‘allim, to visit Syria to discuss...
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2006
A study carried out by
the
Ministry of Social Affairs showed that there are twenty-one thousand children in Egypt who have no name,
identity
or legal existence. These children are the outcome of ‘urfī or unofficial marriages
in which the
father refuses to acknowledge the paternity of his...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 11, 2006
The queen of Jordan holds a conference
urging the world to stand
up to violence against children in war-torn Arab countries.
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
Claims that Pakistani Christian children sold as slaves to fund Islamic militants and that the police have failed to take action, despite two Christian missionaries providing photographic evidence of children being sold.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
Hamada Husayn reviews Dr. Nawāl al-
Sa‘dāwī statements in
an interview with al-‘Arabīya
Channel, in which she talked about the idea of
giving a child the surname of his/her mother.
Date of source: Sunday, April 23, 2006
In her message from The Hague, Fikrīya Ahmad reports the latest Dutch pressures on
Egypt to oblige every Egyptian parent to keep his/her children in the Netherlands, with the Dutch parent,
after
divorce.
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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.