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Date of source: Tuesday, March 13, 2007
While some consider the proposed anti-terrorism law a violation of an individual’s freedom and privacy, others consider this proposed constitutional text to be a means of avoiding terrorist attacks in Egypt. Arguments about citizenship and article two are still the main subjects of all debates...
Date of source: Thursday, December 19, 2002
President Hosni Mubarak has issued a decision to the effect that January 7, Christmas in Egypt, is a national holiday for all Egyptians. The decision was highly praised and welcomed.
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The Egyptian Cassation Court annulled the
sentences given by the Supreme State Security Court against Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim and against 18 of the other 27
defendants. It also ordered their retrial and refused the defense request to stay the execution of the seven years
imprisonment sentence...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Rose al-Yūsuf interviews Nijād al-Bura‘ī, the director of the Cairo-based Group for Democratic Development, about his stance on the role of the National Council for Human Rights [NCHR] in civil society. al- Bura‘ī blames the council for failing to play an intermediary role between the...
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Egypt was angry about the stormy reactions that broke following the
sentence given to
Saad Eddin Ibrahim. The ruling renewed tension between Egypt and the U.S., which considers
Ibrahim an
American human rights activist. It condemned the ruling and started a new verbal war against the Cairo...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 30, 2003
The author criticizes the human rights conference in Paris and its discussion of the issue of renewing the Islamic religious discourse. He believes that those who discussed the issue are not qualified. He writes that the issue became on everybody´s lips and a subject that is dealt with every...
Date of source: Sunday, July 11, 2004
The Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies held a
conference about political reform in the Arab world in which the issues of democracy, political
reform, changing the constitution and the freedom of creating political parties were discussed.
The final statement proposed forming an...
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 2004
For more than twenty
-five years, Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim has been participating in making events all over the Arab
World. He propagated the culture of human rights when he first founded The Arab Organization for
Human Rights. He then embraced the cause of minorities in his conference in 1994 on...
Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2004
The article presents the views of some members of the National Council for Human Rights regarding the responsibilities of the newly-established council and the change it will bring to Egyptian political life.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 18, 2004
The Higher State Security Prosecutor in Egypt said yesterday that members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood were arrested a day earlier for planning to overthrow the regime by force and to establish an Islamic Caliphate. Security forces arrested 54 members, including Muslim Brotherhood leaders in...
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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.