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Date of source: Friday, September 30, 2005
Veiled women now appear in Egyptian television commercials and music videos. This has provoked different reactions amongst different social classes.
Date of source: Thursday, November 11, 2004
The mayor of Drez [spelling?], a city in Northern Italy, targeted Muslims only by banning the niqab [a veil that hides all of the head and face]. He claimed that Italian laws prohibited the covering of the face in public places which makes identifying an individual a difficult task. He added that...
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 2004
France gives full freedom to its citizens to believe in whatever they want. Thousands of French chose Islam and no one has ever asked them why.
The official number of French Muslims is 50,000 but the unofficial could be double this figure, considering that those unofficially announced Muslims did...
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 2004
Veiled broadcasters banned from appearance on the Egyptian television screen, demanded that Dr. Mamdouh Al-Beltagi, Minister of Information, cancel the ban thus allowing them to return to work.
Broadcasters also complained of prejudices suffered from Zeynab Sweidan, head of Television, who...
Date of source: Monday, October 25, 2004
The office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Houston, Texas, held a press conference at which it called on political and religious leaders in the state to speak out against the recent waves of hatred against Muslims.
The conference came after a series of recent attacks against...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
A conferee on Coptic problems was held in Zurich, Switzerland and tackled the current cares of Copts in Egypt where conflicting reports do not give a chance to reach the facts. The conference was organized by an Egyptian Copt who lives in Switzerland, Adli Abadier, and funded by several US and...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Has piety become a means of profit-making? Or have some of us contracted psycho-social diseases that render our manners ostentatious and showy? In some five-star hotels now there are so-called Islamic wedding parties, the cost of which for 100 invited persons in all cases exceeds LE 100,000. The...
Date of source: Friday, September 3, 2004
Pupils went back to school in France yesterday, on the first day of implementation of the new law banning obvious religious symbols – among them the hijab – from state schools. This happened without serious incident after the story of the two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq grabbed the nation’...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 7, 2004
Last Thursday was the first day the law that bans students from wearing the veil in French schools and universities went into effect. The law triggered many unforeseen incidents. The law that caused wide controversy in Islamic circles and echoed in many Islamic countries bans all obvious religious...
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
The World Islamic Council condemned the kidnapping of civilian hostages in Iraq in a statement released yesterday. Answering suggestions that the kidnapping of two French journalists was a reaction to France’s position on the question of the hijab [Islamic veil or head cover], the statement said: “...
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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.