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Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, says it plans to establish a new "national body" before year’s end to replace the Palestine Liberation Organization, which it describes as obsolete.
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
An Algerian guerrilla leader has been killed by his own men and replaced, an Algerian newspapers reported on August 18. Reports said that Dichou was killed because he wanted to halt the armed struggle and negotiate with the authorities.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 31, 1999
Jordan is ready to relinquish its religious authority over Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem to the Palestinian National Authority, Prime Minister Abur-Ra’uf S. Rawabdeh has said.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 24, 1999
... In the name of our sisters, daughters and mothers who do not have any voice, in the name of those who this minute unjustly suffer different forms of violence and injury to protect honor, with no one to protect them and guarantee their human rights, we raise our own voices. We call for the...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 24, 1999
Jordanian intellectuals and human rights activists on Monday launched a nationwide campaign to collect thousands of signatures to stem crimes of honor in Jordan. The group of men and women, who form the National Jordanian Campaign Committee to Eliminate so-called Crimes of Honor, appealed to the...
Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 1999
A group of male and female activists plan to launch a nationwide campaign next week to stem crimes of honor, a black mark on the country’s human rights record. Annually, around 25 women are reportedly killed in the Kingdom in so-called "crimes of honor" - a term used to describe the murder of a...
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: Sunday, August 8, 1999
The Jordanian Penal Code is a license to kill for reasons of values and breaking rules of chastity. Under what absurd right do we allow men to be the moral arbiters and executioners of female relatives bestowing on them legal protection under the guise of extenuating circumstances?
Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2012
Jordan’s Mufti Saeed Abdul Hafeez Al Hijawi ruled that female circumcision was "a noble trait" accepted by Islam, even though it was not a necessity.
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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.