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Date of source: Saturday, June 9, 2001 to Friday, June 15, 2001
The author argues that Egyptian society can turn against those [The Azhar Scholars Front] who accuse it of apostasy. It can even give evidence that they work for the interests of bodies that aim to eliminate the cultural role of Egypt and accuse them of distracting Egyptians from their real...
Date of source: Sunday, June 3, 2001
"The formation period in the life of Mohammed" written by Khalil Abdel-Karim caused widespread arguments. Dr. Abdel-Azim Al-Matani of the Azhar University accused the author of harming Islam and disfiguring the Prophet Mohammed. The book claimed that Mohammed imagined receiving the Qur’an from...
Date of source: Saturday, December 2, 2000 to Friday, December 8, 2000
Some extremists attacked Sheikh Abdel Hamed Bekhit, teaching at the Faculty of Religious Fundamentals [Usul el-Din], because he issued a fatwa that allows students who have troubles in concentrating on their exams because of the fasting to break their fast. The fatwa was strongly opposed by...
Date of source: Sunday, April 16, 2000
October magazine obtained the confessions of five high-ranking members of terrorist groups, who repented after discovering the groups’ lies and deceptions whilst in prison. These members informed security and religious officials of their decision to repent. They presented the truth to October [...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 8, 2000
An interview with Dr. Abdel-Sabour Shahin, author of the controversial book "My father Adam", after the recent rejection of the case to ban the publishing of his book. Here he talks about the comparison of the case to a similar case he brought against Dr. Nasr Abu-Zeid some years ago, and about...
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
Response to Al-Mougi’s article. The author claims the method the Islamic extremist groups use in arguing is wrong. The author deliberately lied - I apologize for saying this - when he said that Farag Foda wrote bad articles about God, Islam, and His prophet...
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
When the extremist secular Farag Foda killed himself [this is the formulation of the author. Foda was murdered. See the comments of the RNSAW in the text], Sheikh Al-Sharawi - may God rest his soul - shouted: "Allahu Akbar! If I was to kill anybody, I would have killed this man..."
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2000
A summary of various newspaper reports on Al-Kosheh, accusing some newspapers of further fomenting communal strife by their biased and inaccurate reporting of the incidents, with 8 points put forward to prevent the repetition of such incidents again.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2000
They are a new group of sexually disordered new extremists; all the previous extremists had vague explanation’s to their terrible crimes against the country and innocent citizens. They believe that marriage without officially certified contracts is acceptable, and that recording names of children...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
Since the Egyptian media have frequently referred to the press conference on Christian girls allegedly being kidnapped the RNSAW decided to present here the full transcript of the discussion which took place in New York. The discussion was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union who had...
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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.