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Date of source: Monday, June 12, 2006
Dr. ‘Abd al-
‘Azīm Ramadān traces the history of clashes between Islamic groups and the Egyptian
government.
Date of source:
The article
carry some of the confessions given by suspects in last
year’s bombings in different areas of downtown Cairo, which
killed a number of tourists and Egyptians and
wounded dozens others.
Date of source: Saturday, May 13, 2006
The author investigates in this series of articles the early beginnings of the Salafist ideology that depends on jihād as its principal activity and discusses the reverberations of this movement in several countries.
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2006 to Friday, April 28, 2006
There are many factors that have contributed to
the escalation of violence
among youths, including the education system, which depends on memorizing school
subjects rather than
understanding or discussing them, as well as unemployment, the housing crisis and
overpopulation problems.
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001 to Friday, October 19, 2001
Bin Laden and his terrorist followers, who escaped from Egypt, imagined that Egypt could be a stage for their malicious operations. Their first target was to strike the symbols of the state, the cultured and the intellectuals, and to create a moral dread within Egyptians. Their second target was...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 7, 2003
The author comments on the historical and religious status of the Azhar. He believes that the great status of the Azhar is somehow deteriorating. He discussed the reasons behind this in the light of the attitude of the Azhar towards of the fatwa of the Iraqi Transitional Ruling Council.
Date of source: Friday, August 22, 2003
The article comments on the danger of unauthorized religious books that are promoted in streets around mosques. The author believes that such books threaten Islamic culture.
Date of source: Saturday, March 8, 2003
Egyptian authorities set free a left wing activist, Kamal Khalil, head of Socialist Studies Center, and other 14 activists who were seized during the last two months for participating in demonstrations against war on Iraq. Moreover, the Azhar Mosque witnessed an anti-war demonstration after the...
Date of source: Saturday, August 20, 2005 to Friday, August 26, 2005
In a scenario that has already been repeated several times, 31-year-old Coptic lawyer Athanasius William raised the issue of Copts’ joining the Azhar University. When William applied to join the Azhar’s Sharī‘a and Law College, he was denied access in accordance with the university’s rules that...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Egypt has suffered from much terrorism and violence. It had managed to eliminate the terrorism of past decades until new attacks killed innocents in Sharm al-Sheikh, Tābā and the Azhar area.
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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.