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Date of source: Sunday, June 3, 2007
The author considers the phenomenon of Islamophobia in the West. He provides examples of incidents that may have further fueled this phenomenon, including the incident of the “flying imāms,” where a U.S. Airways flight in Minneapolis was temporarily grounded after passengers reported six Muslims...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 30, 2007
The following presents the opinion of Saad Eddin Ibrahim – one of the most outspoken critics of the Egyptian government, who was imprisoned from 2000-2003 for his critique. He is a liberal secularist, but as a result of his strong democratic stance, he defends the rights of all groups in society,...
Date of source: Saturday, May 26, 2007
Faction leaders of the fundamentalist Jihād Organization are working on an initiative to cease all violence. The ideologue of the Jihād Organization, Sayyid Imām ‘Abd al-‘Azīz, finished his new book of rules and asked for a million British pounds for a five-year contract to publish and translate...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Every Egyptian who does not like something in this country finds no shame in threatening [the government] that he or she would demand the assistance of a foreign organization or government against his or her own country. Saad Eddin Ibrahim [Chairman of Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies]...
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Muhammad Yusrī, the fugitive brother of terrorist Īhāb Yusrī, who carried out a recent suicide bombing at the downtown ‘Abd al-Muncim Riyād square, was handed over by Libya, where he escaped shortly before the incidents in which several people were injured. His sister Najāt Yusrī, along with a...
Date of source: Monday, August 23, 2004
Almost ten months after the release of the leader of Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya in Egypt Karam Zohdy , informed fundamentalist sources have revealed that Egyptian authorities have also released Usama Hafiz, one of the historical leaders of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya and a key founder of the group.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 22, 2007
The events of al-Khānkah in 1972 until the events in al-‘Ayyāṭ in 2007 have marked 35 years of tension, conflict, and sectarian clashes in Egypt. The Egyptian press has recorded a total of 202 incidents, an average of six incidents a year. The author provides an overview of 35 years of tension,...
Date of source: Saturday, May 5, 2007
Leaders of the Jihād Islamic group are about to issue their report on their adjusted strategies and tactics against using violence. While the majority of the group seems to approve of the amendments, some of the leaders consider the document unreliable according to possibility of having been...
Date of source: Thursday, April 26, 2007
Al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah has issued a statement announcing its support of the initiative for various factions of Jihād organizations to cease any use of violence.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
TheJihād Group officially declares their initiative to cease of the use of violence. While many of the Islamic groups approved of the initiative, many seem to complicate the issue.
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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.