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Date of source: Sunday, May 1, 2005
Rose al-Yousuf, March 26-April 1, 2005, AWR, 2005, week 13, art. 11 was angry about the campaign of several human rights organizations, including the Land Center for Human Rights, about the death of Nafīsa from Sarandou village in al-Buhayra. AWR asked Karam Sābir, Executive Manager of The Land...
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
A quick review of current events suggests that what happened in the United States following the September 11, 2001 attacks will happen again in Europe following the March 11, 2004 train explosions. As Arabs and Muslims we need to make them hear our cry—that we also suffer from terrorism and that...
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
Terrorists have changed their strategies after the precautionary measures taken by world countries in airports and on board of planes following the September 11 attacks. Terrorist operations now target trains and train stations, where a massive number of people crowd, especially during rush hour....
Date of source: Monday, March 29, 2004
The American University in Cairo (AUC) is expected to witness a confrontation after the decision of the administration to ban female students from wearing the niqab.
The university newspaper, the Caravan, reported on March 7 that the administration decided to suspend Yasmine Abel Raziq until she...
Date of source: Sunday, April 4, 2004
A criticism of Farida Al-Naqash’s article in Al-Ahali newspaper on “Renewing religious thought.” Farida Al-Naqash wrote a review about a book of Iqbal Baraka who argued that the veil is not a religious duty. The writer stresses that those who believe that the veil is not a religious obligation are...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Scholars agree that what religion asks of women is to cover all their body except their face and hands. The dress women should wear should not be tight on their body and should not be transparent. This is the dress code that we all agree on today. The Qur’anic verses concerning women’s dress do not...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 2004
Muhammad Abdel Qodous issued a statement as head of the Committee of Freedom affiliated with the Journalists’ Syndicate in which he supported the female broadcasters of Channel 5 who were suspended and moved to administrative jobs for taking the hijab [veil]. The statement also mentioned that the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Today, women and men adopt the Islamic dress to advertise a stand. In my opinion, the veil is a curtain that hides those who wear it from the outside world. We know for sure that the veil started to spread after the defeat of 1967. The dreams of youth who grew up with the Nasserite principles and...
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 2004
In his interview with Reuters, Youssef Shahin, the Egyptian director who is well-known in Europe and especially in France said that he hates the apparent religiosity in Egyptian society and he feels angry when the call to the prayer is spoken through the loudspeakers of mosques in Cairo. Shahin’s...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 2004
When Al-Kawakib published Youssef Shahin’s statements in which he attacked the call for prayer and the veil, Shahin was in France attending Canne Film Festival. Al-Kawakib never confirmed that Shahin made these statements. As soon as Shahin arrived to Cairo, he made a phone call to Al-...
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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.