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Date of source: Tuesday, February 14, 2006
The author argues that the characters in Nobel laureate Najīb Mahfouz’s novel Awlād Hāritnā strongly represent those of the 1952 revolution and its incidents and shifts, contrary to the notion that it has represented certain prophets and involved despising religion.
Date of source: Monday, February 13, 2006
The author discusses the pleadings of Nobel laureate Najīb Mahfouz’s lawyer, who refuted charges of blasphemy pressed against the writer over his controversial novel Awlād Hāritnā.
Date of source: Thursday, February 2, 2006
In a panel held on the sidelines of the Cairo International Book Fair, Muftī of the Republic Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘a surprised everyone when he announced that Najīb Mahfouz’ controversial Awlād Hāratnā was not referred to the Azhar for religious opinion.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Half a century after it was banned, Najīb Mahfouz’s controversial novel, Awlād Hāritnā, is returning to the Egyptian market, this time with an introduction by Islamic thinker Ahmad Kamāl Abu al-Majd at the request of Mahfouz himself.
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2006
Awlād Hāritnā, the controversial novel by Najīb Mahfouz caused controversy both when it was published and again in 1988 when the Swedish Nobel academy announced that Mahfouz had won its prize for literature and praised his novel as "spiritual”.
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2006
Khālid Bura‘ī presents a list of banned books in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, September 25, 2005
Radical Islamists have not only settled for censorship in their fight against intellectuals, but have issued fatwas, sentencing to death thinkers with whom they disagree. Intellectuals across the Muslim world have been attacked or assassinated in accordance with these fatwas.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Muslim intellectual Dr. Abdel Azim Al-Mata’ani said the Azhar is playing a vital role in the confrontation against deviant thought that views itself as innovation, adding the Azhar is not entitled to confiscate any works of art.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 16, 1999
This is the story of the most famous sixteen books which were confiscated throughout this century because of the taboos in our society (on religion, sex, and politics) which stand, like a sword on the neck, in front of everyone who has a certain opinion while the freedom allowed in the Arab world,...
Date of source: Sunday, November 21, 1999
An Egyptian Gazette comment on the interview of al-Musawwar with sheikh Tantawi.
The Gazette praises Tantawi for his cautious attitude.
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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.