Displaying 11 - 20 of 38.
Date of source: Sunday, October 7, 2007
The author discusses the problems that have arisen based on the Land Reclamation Law that was passed in 1961, and how this law is impacting Egyptians that were originally able to live on a lot of land allocated to them by a generous land-owner, who have thrice had their homes torn down since then.
Date of source: Sunday, May 6, 2007
The author considers a number of situations in which the citizen has been overruled by the state. He presents two specific examples, one of a plot of land that was given to the lowest bidder, and the other about forged IOU notes that greatly indebted citizens beyond their means.
Date of source: Sunday, March 4, 2007
A description of the lives of Copts living near the Nile in the village of Ezbet Hanna Ayoub who are in a conflict with the Land Reclamation Authority [LRA] over the ownership of their land. The author warns that poor policy on the part of the authorities can lead to sectarian violence.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 28, 2007
As news spread about finding an isolated 20-year-old camphor tree with the names of God and the Prophet Muhammad having been carved on its trunk, people have shown interest in visiting to receive blessings as a miracle from God.
Date of source: Monday, February 26, 2007
In the article, security forces continue their drive against senior leaders of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group after some of its affiliated students displayed a parade in the Azhar University’s campus a few months ago. Police are also targeting the group’s secret financial system in order to...
Date of source: Sunday, May 21, 2006
The author lists names of Copts, who have assumed leading positions in Egypt,
noting that
any citizen has the right to assume one of these posts, regardless of his religion.
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001 to Friday, November 16, 2001
The Head of the Department of Transport and Bridges Equipment in Cairo was arrested together with his wife for forming a group promoting ideas against Islam. He issued a fatwa to his followers that they were not obliged to pray in the direction of the Kiblah while performing prayers. He also denied...
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2001
The person behind the first violence and religious extremism cases in the 1970s in Egypt was a Palestinian called Saleh Serria. This means that terrorism in Egypt was imported and then it became locally made. The only winner of the radical terrorist war is Israel because it does not want...
Date of source: Saturday, December 6, 2003 to Friday, December 12, 2003
The Azhar decided to ban Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid´s book “Al-Khetab Wa Al-Ta´weel” [Discourse and Interpretation], allegedly because it challenge two main pillars of Islam: monotheism and the [divine] preservation of the Qur´an. The author comments that this argument indicates accusing Abu Zeid of...
Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 2004 to Friday, December 10, 2004
Journalist Sekina Fouad has written in Al-Ahram on November 25, 2004 that “Thank God that the Grand Imam of the Azhar has said catching locusts with the aim of eating them is not a must but rather an optional because I did not want to miss a duty after the fatwa committee called for catching and...
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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.