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Date of source: Friday, December 31, 2004
Some clerics - shaykhs and priests - have suddenly turned into experts in economics, sociology, chemistry and physics as well as politicians who advise people to follow their opinions through Fatāwá, the observance of which is obedience to God and their breach considered apostasy.
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Two people were arrested following a 14-hour anti-terror operation by Dutch police forces, ending a standoff with suspected Islamic terrorists that lasted all day in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. Three police officers were wounded during the raid by a grenade hurled by the suspects. Moreover, the...
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During a seminar held at the Journalists? Syndicate, the heavyweight Muslim scholar Shaykh al-Qaradawi discussed, among other subjects, the situation in Iraq. Shaykh al-Qaradawi, the head of the newly established, Ireland-based Union of Muslim Scholars, was quoted as saying that all Americans in...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 2004
Press review based on Al- Usbūʿ, Al-Aḥrār, Al-Maydān, Al-Wafd and Ṣawt al-Azhar. The visit of the delegation of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom to Egypt has caused much controversy within Egyptian political and religious circles, with many considering it an unwanted...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 to Tuesday, July 20, 2004
For several weeks, the movie ?Baheb al-Sima? [I Love Cinema] has been discussed in the Egyptian press. Following are the articles published about the controversial movie in the Arabic press available in Egypt.
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Signs of a new crisis have jumped to the front of the cultural arena in Egypt and have revived the scenario of confrontation between the Azhar institutions and liberal intellectuals. The most bizarre incident is the banning of Nawal Al-Sa'adawi's "Soqout Al-Imam" [The Fall of the Imam] that was...
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The new law that gives the authority of judicial seizure to the Azhar triggered much fear that it will promote the authority of the Azhar and threaten freedom of expression.
The Minister of Justice, Farouq Seif al-Nasr, said that the decision is not targeted at literary books, and such books would...
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Different Egyptian authors ponder about how to build bridges between the
Islamic world and the West.
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British authorities deposed Egyptian fundamentalist Abū Hamza al-Masri from being the Imām of Finsbury Park
Mosque because he used his position to give political statements. The ?Sun? paper reported the news of his deposition
and asked its readers to call him on his cellular phone and ask him to...
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One of the issues that surfaced after September 11 is the issue of "religious discourse" and its importance in showing that Islam is not a religion of violence and terrorism. Articles covered in this press review show what kind of religious discourse is needed today and whether there are Western...
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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.