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Date of source: Sunday, October 1, 2006
General bishop: Bishop Buṭrus of the Coptic Orthodox Church is known for the controversy over the Charity Isle of Patmos. He has been a bishop since 1985, Member of board of advisors and founder of Charity Isle of Patmos [named after the Greek Island where the apostle John received his Revelation...
Date of source: Sunday, April 1, 2007
Ayman Nūr is a strong proponent of liberal political reforms in Egypt as well as a strong profile on human rights. He has used his seat in parliament to carry out "investigations on everything from bread prices to torture." Only three months after establishing his new party, Ayman Nūr was stripped...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Āmīnah Wadūd; an African-American woman who was raised as a Christian by her father, a Methodist minister, converted to Islam in 1972. Āmīnah Wadūd is widely known for her strong engagement in Islamic feminism and along with other Islamic feminists, Wadūd fights for women’s complete and equal...
Date of source: Sunday, July 1, 2007
This biography focuses on the Islamic viewpoints of Āḥmad al-Ṭayyib; how he argues from an Islamic perspective and does not attempt to see the world through the eyes of non-Muslims. He strives to represent Islam in the best possible light, talking about it in a very positive way and accordingly...
Date of source: Sunday, May 17, 2015
The program’s presenter Rīm Māgid commented that the station’s administration had informed her that the program was being stopped on the request of “ruling officials.” However, ONtv has released a statement explaining that the program has not been banned but delayed. The Arabic Network for Human...
11-6 Al-Jazeera journalist Muhammad Fahmī to Robert Fisk: Qatar is playing a dangerous game in Egypt
Date of source: Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Robert Fisk said that Qatar is playing a dangerous game in Egypt pointing to journalist Muhammad Fahmī who was imprisoned by the Egyptian government for 411 days. Fisk explained that Fahamī is convening a conference called “Journalism is not Political” in which he is expected to talk about al-...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Muhammad Fahmī, an Egyptian journalist for al-Jazeera who was arrested in Egypt in 2013 on charges of spreading false news, reported that he would sue al-Jazeera in Canadian court. His lawyer reported that he plans to seek damages of 100 million dollars in compensation for his ordeal. Fahmī claims...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Hāfidh Abū Sa’adah, a member of the National Council for Human Rights, said that the council will be addressing the President and the head of the government to demand that the justice minister, Mahfūz Sābir, apologize for his controversial remarks that debarred Ibn ‘Āmal al-Nidhāfa from a...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 10, 2016
The Minister of Religious Endowments recently spoke to the media saying, “these days there are devious voices and destructive points of view calling for abominations with no shame or embarrassment”. He claimed that movements calling for the removal of women’s hijabs as well as points of view that...
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2016
Calls on women to protest and take off their hijabs are stirring up a broader debate surrounding the hijab in Egypt. Some women support the idea that women in Egypt should take off their hijabs while others outright refuse it. One woman said that she took off her hijab because of the importance of...
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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.