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Date of source: Wednesday, December 27, 2000
The American University in Cairo warned a student she may be dismissed after she decided to wear the niqab and they prevented her from attending her classes. The student said that the administration of the University did not try to find a midway solution with her and just took this arbitrary...
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2000
The author says there is no disagreement between him and the Pope and that writing about Pope Kyrillos does not offend him. The Pope does not visit the cities and villages of Upper Egypt, while he travels several times a year to the United States and Europe because the materialistic life there...
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2000
Shebl says the series of "Awan Al-Ward" led to discussions that Egyptians were in dire need of. Before the disaster of 1967 [in reference to the defeat of the six day war], there were no discussions about the relationship between Muslims and Christians. People were dealing with their companions on...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 27, 2000
The Mufti issued a statement to explain the real meaning of his Fatwa concerning the legality of defending a spy and to declare that what was written in Al-Masa’i paper in this respect was untrue. The author commented on this saying that the Mufti should have done this earlier and not after readers...
4. Salah Al-Din Mohsen, who is accused of disdaining religions, is under arrest and is to be retried
Date of source: Saturday, December 30, 2000
Salah Al-Din Mohsen, who was informed he would be tried again for disdaining Islam, tried to escape to Turkey but was arrested at Cairo airport. He said that he intended to leave Egypt because he was certain that this time he was going to be imprisoned. He still believes in every single word he has...
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2000
President Sadat was very worried about the growth of the Nasserist and leftist trends among university students. That is why he thought of letting the Islamic trend grow and flourish and use them to confront the Nasserist and leftist trends. The Gama’at Al-Islamiya existed already during the last...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2000
A Coptic Egyptian researcher spent four years in the village of "Deir El-Maymoun" to present a thesis for his masters degree on "Folkloric Celebrations of Coptic Holy Days." He chose this topic because no one researched this before. He believes Coptic culture does not receive much attention from...
Date of source: Thursday, December 21, 2000
Pope Shenouda and many Muslim religious men received a great number of inquiries and criticisms about the series of "Awan Al-Ward." Christians believe that the series presents the issue of the marriage between a Muslim man and a Christian woman as a matter that should be accepted by Christians out...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 19, 2000
The idea of establishing a party representing the Brotherhood has its supporters and opponents. Prof. Rifa’at El-Said, Dr. Abu El-Ela Madi and Dr. Hossam Badrawi totally reject the idea and believe this would be a threat to society. Prof. Milad Hanna is of opinion that this is not a challenge to...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2000
The author comments on Fahmi Howeidi’s article about establishing an Islamic party. He expressed his surprise at the fact that Howeidi discussed the idea only from a constitutional angle but not from a political one. Howeidi’s idea that the constitution does not prohibit founding religious parties...
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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.