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Date of source: Saturday, April 14, 2001 to Friday, April 20, 2001
[Al-Khola’: wife’s request for divorce in return of renouncing all her rights in the marriage]
A lawyer started a lawsuit to make Al-Khola’ law ineffective as he argues it is unconstitutional. The client of that lawyer is Coptic a lady who changed her religion to have the right to Al-Khola’ but the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 20, 2001
The Southern Cairo Court found Professor Yehia Ismail Hablush, secretary general of the [Azhar] Scholars Front, not guilty in the case in which his opponent the Grand Sheikh of the Azhar accused him of defamation.
Date of source: Monday, December 18, 2000
After President Mubarak appointed Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi in the parliament, rumors claimed that his appointment is aimed to oppose the Muslim Brothers in the Parliament. Dr. Bayoumi believes that his rivals are behind such rumors. The General Guide of the Brotherhood said that Bayoumi is not a...
Date of source: Monday, December 18, 2000
A few months ago, the Grand Imam filed a lawsuit against the General Secretary of the Azhar Scholars’ Front because the latter wrote an article which the former believed was meant to criticize him. The president of the court asked for a reconciliation between them because both are great scholars...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 1, 2000
In Al-Midan of May 9, 2000, accountant Pulais Basili wrote an article, entitled "The Statement of the Minister of Justice and Al-Khula for Christians". In this article, he accused the church of controlling the lives of its sons and daughters and of bearing the responsibility of their fallen...
Date of source: Monday, July 24, 2000
Counselor Mohammed Arafa, the head of the Technical Office of the General Prosecutor, declared that Dr. Yehia Ismail confessed that he wrote, in Al-Shaab of March 17, an article entitled "The Egyptian Khula is an American Product". In this article he uses many words and sentences that insult the...
Date of source: Friday, June 2, 2000
The author begins his article by recounting how the Minister of Justice settled the heated debate between the two counselors Malek Mena and Wasaf Nashed, concerning whether to apply the law of Al-Khula to Christians or not. Then he mentions the role the late priest Ibrahim Abdel Said played in...
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2000 to Friday, April 28, 2000
This woman opened the door in the passageway of the courts of personal status, for tortured Christian women to get a divorce. F.F., a Coptic businesswoman, took a short cut to divorce by asking for the [Islamic] Khula’ law to be applied to her according to the new personal status law, after...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 to Tuesday, April 4, 2000
Dr. Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid , who was accused of unbelief, five years ago, and fled to Holland commented, in an interview with Al Ahaly, on the case of Dr. Abdel Sabour Shaheen’s book "My Father Adam" , which was demanded to be banned but the court refused.
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2000
The people who support this new law do not only believe that this law is a cultural necessity, but they believe that the Muslim woman enjoyed more rights at the beginning of Islam... The dean of the [Azhar] Faculty of Theology [’Usul el-Din], Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi is one of the supporters of the...
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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.