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Date of source: Monday, August 26, 2002
Mokhtar Nuh, a leading imprisoned figure of the Muslim Brotherhood, sent a letter to one of his friends after the Administrative Court ordered his release along with other 11 members of the Brotherhood. The letter shows that Nuh´s approaches have been changed and that he intends to have relations...
Date of source: Monday, July 29, 2002
Rafiq Habib and Muhammad Afifi wrote a book on the impacts of Islamic traditions on Christians. Because Christians mixed with Muslims whose Shari´a allows a man to marry more than one wife, some Copts, in the beginning of the 17th century, asked the church to allow them to marry more than one...
Date of source: Sunday, June 30, 2002
The board of the Neurosurgery Department of Zagazig Medical School denied promotion rights to Dr. Joseph Iskandar because the class of 2002 was expected to include two candidates who are related to members of the faculty of the medical school. Dr. Iskander took his case to court. Finally, the...
Date of source: Monday, June 24, 2002
The female nominee of the Muslim Brotherhood in Alexandria accused government agencies of trying to stop her from gaining a parliamentary seat. She also accused the government of hindering another brotherhood nominee. She said that she had failed to get support from women´s organizations...
Date of source: Monday, May 27, 2002
Before President Mubarak´s visit to the USA, the National Association of American Copts, headed by Maurice Sadek, issued a statement claiming that Palestinian Muslims have no legal rights in Israel and that a group of Palestinian terrorists had attacked and occupied the Church of the Nativity...
Date of source: Sunday, May 12, 2002
Michael Meunier defends emigrant Copts against the claims raised about them in the Egyptian press. He explained how they support the Palestinian issue and tried to defend Muslims after the 11 September attacks. He stressed that they have never asked the American administration to stop its aid to...
Date of source: Monday, April 1, 2002
As the latest wave of anti-Israel protesters poured into the streets of capitals across the Arab world, observers are saying that a backlash against the Arab regimes themselves is closer than ever before
Date of source: Thursday, March 14, 2002
One of the four books published recently by the Gama´at Al-Islamiya is titled “The Illegality of Extremism in Religion and of Charging Muslims With Kufr [unbelief].” In it, the leaders of the Gama´at consider charging Muslims with kufr an illegal act. They cited many Qur´anic verses and hadiths to...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 13, 2002
An airline company fired an assistant pilot because she came to wear hijab. The assistant pilot filed a lawsuit against the company. She said that she would not neglect committing her duties toward God nor would she renounce her constitutional rights, as wearing hijab is not against the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2002
The article cites parts of John Esposito´s book “The Islamic Threat…a Reality Or a Fable.” The book gives a critique of President Mubarak´s regime and of how he countered Islamic groups.
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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.