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Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
The tempo of attack on Egyptian actors and actresses has sharply increased in recent years. The number of cassette tapes released by unknown sheikhs who demonize the film industry outnumber the scores of kitsch albums launched every day into the market.
Date of source: Thursday, October 14, 1999
A jailed Kuwaiti professor and newspaper columnist was taken to hospital with an irregular heartbeat after a four-day hunger strike to protest his imprisonment for blasphemy against Islam, supporters said on October 10.
Date of source: Thursday, October 14, 1999
The arrest of Ahmed Baghdadi, head of Kuwait University’s Political Science Department and a newspaper columnist, on blasphemy charges has triggered a war of words between the country’s influential Islamists and liberals. While liberals criticized the sentence for being an alleged infringement of...
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 1999
Iraq’s leading Christian cleric said Wednesday he believed Pope John Paul II remained committed to a controversial millennium pilgrimage to Iraq and that he expected him to meet President Saddam Hussein.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 6, 1999
The RNSAW has made excerpts of the annual report on International Religious Freedom for 1999 with a focus on religious freedom in the Arab World; Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab...
Date of source: Thursday, September 23, 1999
In a closed meeting between Jordanian Prime Minister Abdul-Raouf Rawabdeh and Jordanian MPs, Rawabdeh accused Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) of hoarding weapons and holding military training exercises on Jordanian territory.
Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 1999
The government and the Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday failed to overcome differences caused by the closure of Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) offices in Amman earlier this month.
Date of source: Friday, September 10, 1999
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, supporters on Friday staged a sit-in at Al Wehdat refugee camp to protest the government’s recent crackdown on the group’s offices in Amman. Amid tight security, more than 2,000 supporters of the Palestinian resistance group gathered inside a mosque in the camp,...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Pope John Paul II will make a "pilgrimage" in Iraq at the beginning of December and will meet President Saddam Hussein, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Raphael Bidawid said on August 27. "The dates have not yet been fixed but the visit will take place between December 2 and 5," the Baghdad-based...
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
The sweeping of Kuwait’s parliamentary polls on July 3 might bode well for women’s suffrage, but it also raises the prospects of a new showdown between MPs and the emir’s government. Opposition candidates won a two-thirds majority in the poll, giving the liberals and Islamists the power to block...
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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.