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Date of source: Monday, May 24, 2004
The balance between Egypt’s Coptic minority and its Muslim majority is an ancient and sensitive one. According to Bishop Boutros, who is responsible for the Coptic Orthodox Church’s publications, "spirits are full of hatred. Muslims and Christians are not good to each other - and it’s hard to...
Date of source: Sunday, June 13, 2004
An American judge allowed yesterday a fatwa of “the international front against Jews and the Crusades” announced by Ben Laden in 1998 to be included among the evidence directed against civil rights lawyer Lyn Stewart [Lawyer of Omar Abdel Rahman] and Ahmed Abdel Sattar, the legal deputy of the...
Date of source: Sunday, June 13, 2004
I was very much astonished when Dr. Ayman Sabri Farag or Abu Gaffar Al-Masry Al-Kandahari told me “During the time of violent incidents in Upper Egypt, I felt very distressed. In his opinion, these incidents ‘tarnish the image of Islam and turn people away from it.’ These incidents do away with...
Date of source: Monday, June 21, 2004
The leaders of the Egyptian Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya criticized Al-Qa’ida, led by Usama Ben Laden, as “having strange calculations and mixing things up because it declared war on the whole world when it does not have enough power.” The leaders of Al-Gama’a stressed in their new book that Al-Qa’ida “...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Asharq Al-Awsat obtained the publishing rights of the book written by Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya member Nageh Ibrahim in which he chronicles the ideas of the group’s historical leaders. Titled “Al-Islam wa Tahadiyat Al-Qarn Al-Eshreen” [Islam and the challenges of the 21st century], the book presents...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
In a study published in Al-Manar [the Minaret] Magazine under the title “the transitions of the Egyptian Islamic movement and its future”, Dr. Kamal Al-Sa’id Habib, a political researcher and one of the founders of the Jihad group, reviews the history of the Islamic movement in Egypt since the...
Date of source: Friday, July 2, 2004
The Moroccan researcher Al-Moqrai Al-Idrisi Abu Zeid, a member of the parliament affiliated to the Islamic opposition party of Al-Adala wa Al-Tanmiya [Justice and development], said that the time has come for extremist violence-involved Islamic movements to carry out an ideological revision of...
Date of source: Sunday, July 11, 2004
On the 20th of February this year, 66 prominent Muslim personalities from many Muslim countries issued a strong-worded statement against the American presence in Iraq. They announced their support of the national Islamic Iraqi resistance against the American occupation of Iraq. They did not issue...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 19, 2005
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack in the Azhar area, the Egyptian press focused on opinions of clerics and the editorial views of senior journalists.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 19, 2005
The article of ‘Imāra [AWR, 2005, week 14, art. 17] provides correct information about the councils of the Orthodox Church in the seventies and the efforts of the Church to interfere in the civil-secular and political affairs of the Copts.
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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.