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Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2021
Social media sites were buzzing with heated discussions after circulating photos of a mosque under construction with pharaonic inscriptions and motifs in a village in al-Fayūm governorate, south of Cairo.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 6, 2006
‘Izz al-Dīn
Najīb responds to a column by Safa
Nāz Kāzim in which she attacked him for being against the
visit of the mufti to the Faculty
of Fine Arts. Secondly, he argues against the religious prohibition on the
picturing of humans.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The author investigates the rampant ultra- religious current and the niqāb phenomenon inside the Fine Arts College in Egypt, starting his 11- page news feature with a photo depicting several female students wearing the niqāb inside the college with a caption reading "this is a photo of...
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
The dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts is interviewed about how the fatwa deeming drawings and sculpture harām has impacted on the students at the faculty.
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article focuses on the resignation offered by a professor in the fine arts college over a mounting ultra-religious trend that believes that art is harām [unacceptable from a Muslim point of view].
Date of source: Tuesday, July 4, 2006
Deepening dialogue between the Islamic world and the West.
Reports about consequences of a fatwa prohibiting statues.
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006 to Friday, April 21, 2006
Several students at the Faculty of Fine Art think that art in general, and sculpture in particular, is harām and accordingly they are trying to spread their ideas to influence the rest of the students.
Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
Afaq Arabia ran an article by Abdullah Al-Tahawy saying that some weak and uncreative writers find insulting Islamic values the shortest way to be famous. Some writers want their books to be banned, then they can run to Human Rights Groups and the Leftists and start wailing about the lack of...
Date of source: Saturday, December 25, 1999
Students of the Fine Arts Faculty in Zamalek discovered a new claimer to prophethood. The surprise is that he is a Black American, who spread his call - that consisted of four messages - in several foreign countries, then came to Egypt among a tourist group to spread his claims, and enjoy [his time...
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
[This article appeared in Al-Ahram, June 16, 1999] The Egyptian press has for years revealed the corruption taking place in universities and criticized officials for not taking a positive action towards this dangerous phenomenon. The corruption is not limited to students but has spread to include...
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.