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Date of source: Tuesday, August 8, 2000
Dr. Saʿd al-Dīn Ibrāhīm opened fire against the Egyptian government, state security department, and some Egyptian young people a few hours before he was accused officially of espionage for the sake of foreign entities. "I was a victim of youth deceiving me" Ibrāhīm said.
Date of source: Saturday, June 3, 2000 to Friday, June 9, 2000
Rose al-Youssef has taken upon
itself to confront two recent, suspicious, religion-related phenomena. One is the new breed of Shaykh
preaching in private
homes. The other is the hypocritical defense of Islām in the face of a wave of
offending literary works. There is now a
third phenomenon...
Date of source:
The three weekly publications
ran simultaneous interviews with the
Sheikh of the Azhar, Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, who was angry about the accusation of
being away during the
strongest ever controversy in the Egyptian society, which was about the novel "A Banquet for
seaweed."
Date of source: Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Al-Qammāsh asks for President Mubārak’s mediatation to reissue al-Sha‘b newspaper, considering the six year ban on the newspaper sufficient punishment .
Date of source: Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Many literal works that were recommended to be
banned by the Islamic Research Institute, like “Waleemat A’shab Al-Bahr” [Banquet of seaweeds] by
Haidar Haidar, and most recently Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s “Soqout Al-Imam [the Fall of the Imam], are
humble and modest texts from a literary point-of-view...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2001
The author commented on Tareq Al-Bishri’s article, in which he compared the attitude of the State towards the Coptic youth demonstrations against what Al-Nabaa published to the Azhar students’ demonstrations against the publication of the "Banquet for Seaweed." He believes that the State was very...
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2001
Mohammed Abbas, who started the crisis of the "Banquet for the seaweed," wrote a new book. It is a collection of fifty articles published in Al-Shaab before and during the crisis. He dedicated his book, to the students of the Azhar, among others, as they demonstrated in response to these articles.
Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2000
According to the report of the Human Rights Watch on Egypt, the government of President Hosni Mubarak intensified its efforts to exercise control over civil society institutions, harassing and restricting the activities of political parties, human rights and other nongovernmental organizations (...
Date of source: Sunday, October 29, 2000
The unfortunate and barbaric events in Palestine have taken us into a new wave of angry protests by university students throughout Egypt, shouting their support for their Palestinian brothers, which is perfectly acceptable. However, these protest marches have quickly deteriorated into anarchism...
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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.