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Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 1999
The anti-normalization committee of the 14 Jordanian professional associations expressed concern on Wednesday about complaints of alleged visits by right-wing Jewish groups to the Jadour Mosque in Salt and said it considers it a desecration of the religious site. Ali Abu Sukar, the committee’s...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 17, 1999
The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood movement on Monday refuted press reports that Jordan requested brotherhood members exiled here not to convene the Shura Council in order not to damage Amman’s mending ties with Damascus.
Date of source: Saturday, July 31, 1999
The Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced a 19-year-old man to a 12-month prison-term after finding him guilty of killing his pregnant sister by running her over with his pickup in the Jordan Valley for "reasons of honor" in February of this year. The article mentions similar ruling in which murders...
Date of source: Sunday, July 25, 1999
Hard-line and centrist members of the Muslim Brotherhood sought to bury the hatchet in a crucial Shura Council session that apparently has smoothed out a two-month feud between them, Islamist sources said on Saturday. Several Islamist activists have noted that the growing differences within the...
Date of source: Saturday, July 24, 1999
A simmering feud between the "hawks" and "doves" of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan was the focus of the Shura Council’s three days of deliberations, due to end on Friday [July 23, 1999] night on whether or not to refer several of its hardline members to the Brotherhood’s internal court.
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999 to Wednesday, July 28, 1999
The results of last week’s municipal elections, in which Islamists won main municipalities, showed that the relationship between the government and opposition parties is on the mend. The results, which were released on Friday following a one-day extension of the vote due to low turnout, were...
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999
Minister of Justice Hamzeh Haddad said a special legal committee at the ministry has decided to cancel article 340 of the Jordanian Penal Code which allows a reduction in penalty for killers who commit crimes of honour.
Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 1999
Excavations began two years ago at Wadi Kharrar and quickly established the existence of hermit dwellings contemporary with Jesus Christ in hills overlooking the springs which feed the valley. It is in the calm, freshwater of those springs, two kilometres east of the Jordan River, that...
Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 1999
Islamists won the country’s main municipalities in elections that they acknowledged as free, fair and democratic.
Date of source: Thursday, July 15, 1999
The controversial ties between Muslim Brotherhood "hawks" in Jordan and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the self-rule areas were the hidden reasons behind growing feuds within the Brotherhood ranks, Islamist and independent sources said this week.
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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.