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Date of source: Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Al-Jamal: Calling women to remove the hijab is ‘an insult to them’
Dr. al-Jamal, Imam and preacher at Sayyida Zaynab Mosque, has stated that removing the hijab means distancing oneself from Islam. Al-Jamal said that calling women and young girls to remove the hijab is an insult to those whom Islam...
Date of source: Sunday, April 13, 2008
The author conducted an interview with Father Salīb Mattá Sawirus on the topic of his newly established human rights center.
Date of source: Friday, August 31, 2007
The following presents a report on poverty in Egypt, and specifically how this issue is being addressed by the Coptic Orthodox Church in an attempt to alleviate the suffering of Egyptians.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 4, 2007
The author of the article refers to an academic study carried out by Dr. Fārūq Ahmad Muṣṭafá concerning Egyptian festivals, in which he dealt with the features and the general characteristics of religious celebrations in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, February 8, 2007
The interview with Muṣṭafá al- Fiqī, chief of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the People’s Assembly, is about the new amendments to the Constitution, the concept of the citizenship, and the Coptic political stance among these changes.
Date of source: Friday, February 9, 2007
About 20,000 manuscripts are expected to be gathered from the different antiquity mosques and indexed in the central library for Islamic manuscripts at the Ministry of Endowments. The project is expected to be realized within one year.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 6, 2000
The Misdemeanors Court of Sayeda Zeinab brought down the
curtains on the case of Shaykh Manal, who
claims to be a prophetess, and her 15 followers. The court
sentenced Manal to five years imprisonment with hard labor, which
is considered to be an extreme penalty
for cases of scorning religions...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 9, 1997
Sheik el Sha’arawy attacked the sheik of the Azhar and the mufti of Egypt,
saying they were violating
basic principles of Islam. Sha’arawy said that God’s word in the Holy Qur’an
should be taken
literally and if the verses of the Holy Qur’an were clear, they did not need to be thought
over.The...
Date of source: Monday, May 22, 2006
Nearly 480 people, including 314 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood have been arrested on charges of organizing unauthorized demonstrations in support of the judges, who blew the whistle on election fraud.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
The father of a Christian girl who disappeared from her home with a Muslim boy states that
he will accept her marriage or conversion, if she has chosen of her own free will, but he believes that she
may
have been brainwashed.
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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.