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Date of source: Saturday, August 7, 2004
Hajj Sayyed is the owner of the most popular clothes store in Egypt [Al-Tawhid wa Al-Nur]. He has taken advantage of soaring unemployment rates among youth and decided to impose certain conditions on those who want to work for him, leading some to call his stores “a detention place.”
Date of source: Saturday, March 9, 2002
Members of the radical group Al-Da’wa Wa Tabligh distribute pamphlets about actresses who repented among pilgrims. The author believes this to be a kind of trade. The article gives three of repentance stories mentioned in these pamphlets.
Date of source: Saturday, January 19, 2002
Eight members of an organization have been accused of disseminating extremist thoughts based on distorting the Islamic religion and opposing its teachings. These thoughts deny all practices of pilgrimage. They also claim that real fasting should be practiced in the month of Sha’ban instead of the...
Date of source: Monday, January 14, 2002
“Al-Muntakhab [The Select or The Selected]” is the first Egyptian-English translation of the Qur’an. It is considered one of the greatest references with respect to the explanation of the Qur’an. The Ministry of Awqaf charged a gynecologist who lives in America to translate it into English. It...
Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2005
Cassette tapes urging jihād, bloodshed and relentlessness have been flooding the Egyptian market lately. They are produced in Saudi Arabia and exported to us via Egyptians coming home from hajj or cumra [lesser pilgrimage].
The objective pursued by these tapes was to give the impression that “we...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Undocumented stories [rumors] spread in the African Kingdom of Swaziland saying the king is about to embrace Islam. A [vague] source said that the king believes there is a Western conspiracy to overthrow him and he feels that Arabs are his real friends.
Date of source: Monday, March 8, 2004
The article is a biography of the well-know Muslim preacher Sheikh Muhammad Gebril.
Date of source: Saturday, May 1, 2004
Some Muslim traditions could be against the dogma of monotheism. Some Muslims think that they can get a blessing from a stone with a footprint attomb of [saint] El-Sayyed El-Badawi.
Date of source: Saturday, August 7, 2004
On June 19, 2004, Al-Ahram Al
-Arabi published an interview with Dr. Nawal. Sa’adawi [See AWR 2004 week 25, art. 6]. I disagree
with many of Dr. Sa’adawi’s views. Many of Dr. Sa’adawi’s writings conflicts with basic aspects
of religion.
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.