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Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 1999
A government counterattack has thrown the three-week old campaign against the new Law 153 for Associations and Civil Institutions into disarray. Social affairs minister Mervat Tellawi has led a public relations campaign to deflect international criticism of law, which aims to keep a check on the...
Date of source: Monday, July 5, 1999
Arab countries with an independent attitude to foreign policy are singled out for attacks by the Western media, particularly American, which is for the most part financed by Zionists. American media exploits every opportunity for bitterly criticizing Arab countries with the apparent aim of...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 1999
Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, sent the American Freedom of Religious Persecution Law to the Islamic Research Institution in order to discuss it and take a decision about it. This law allows the American government to create the function of a traveling ambassador to travel to...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 1999
The stormy debate over the new NGOs law has not abated. It is claimed that the new law, which was endorsed by the People’s Assembly before it went into recess a few days ago, was maliciously designed by the government to firmly control NGOs. It is alleged that the law was put forward after some...
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 1999 to Wednesday, June 9, 1999
Despite parliament’s approval, many NGOs believe that this is no reason to stop the campaign against a law which, they argue, infringes upon their autonomy. The law, many NGOs assert, gives the government extensive control over the establishment and liquidation of organizations, and widens the...
Date of source: Monday, May 31, 1999
The Al-Usbua newspaper alleges that the foreign funding received by Egyptian NGOs is used by some of them to provide foreign media (under lobbying pressure from Jewish/Zionist groups) with information that can defame Egypt. Additionally, US sponsored projects and programs carried out with the...
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The US State Department released its annual report on the state of human rights in Egypt stating: "The government continued to commit numerous serious human rights abuses, although its record improved somewhat over the previous year."
Date of source: Friday, December 11, 1998
In a blatant intervention in Egypt’s affairs, the US asked the Egyptian government to close the file of charges against the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights.
Date of source: Saturday, November 21, 1998
Daniel Kurtzer, US Ambassador to Cairo, said relations between Egypt and the USA
are excellent, and President Clinton cares about discussing the latest development in the region with President Hosni Mubarak. He said he himself assured that what happened in Al-Koshh has nothing to do with...
Date of source: Monday, October 26, 1998
In a new misleading campaign against Egypt, the International Coptic Federation called upon the United Nations and the UN Security Council to intervene to solve the problems of Copts in Egypt.
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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.