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Date of source: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 to Saturday, May 20, 2000
In this article, Salah Montassar tries to give an overall view about the novel "A Banquet for Seaweed." Firstly, he exposes and comments on the content of the novel. Then he comments on the revolution against the novel by asking whether it was a sincere revolution for religion or simply a secular...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 17, 2000
The writer of this article wonders why the Ministry of Culture doesn’t publish the works of Egyptian writers first. How could they publish the work of an unknown Syrian writer, while the young writers in Egypt are facing great difficulties in getting their works published.
Date of source: Friday, May 19, 2000
The Attorney General announced that the statement issued by the Azhar Islamic Research Institute regarding the novel "A Banquet for Seaweed" will be considered by the Supreme State Security Prosecution. He had also received a note from Farouq Hosni, Minister of Culture, regarding the same issue. In...
Date of source: Saturday, May 13, 2000
In a very long article Ibrahim Sa’ada criticized and blamed all the parties involved in the recent controversy about the novel "A Banquet for Seaweed," which provoked unprecedented riots in the Azhar University.
Date of source: Saturday, May 13, 2000 to Friday, May 19, 2000
In a quick interview with the Egyptian Minister of Culture, he confirmed that he understood that the Labor Party is now in charge of the preaching mission for extremism. Regarding the statement of Ahmed Omar Hashem, in which he urged the burning of the book, the Minister was shocked, as it reveals...
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2000
Responsible personnel at the Ministry of Culture face up about 5 years imprisonment.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2000
In a statement signed by 60 scholars from the Azhar University, the General Organization for Books and the Ministry of Culture were accused of releasing blasphemous publications which attack Islamic ideology and prophet Mohammed’s biography.
Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
The State Security Prosecutor held investigations with the a leading person working with the Ministry of Culture. This person is said to be responsible for the release of the novel "Banquet for the Seaweed".
Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
The Minister of Culture, Farouq Hosni, reiterated his previous statement on the controversial novel and asserted that the allegation that the Ministry could approve such publications is outrageous and may be a sort of political profiteering.
Similar articles appeared in Al-Ahram (p.1), Al-Akhbar (...
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Thursday, May 11, 2000
It is neither Poetry nor creativity, it is only vulgarity that humiliates God and the prophets using sexual conversation and expressions. This is how the writer described the anthology of "Woman who likes the sea" and the novel of "The mint aroma" which the Ministry of Culture issued in the series...
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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.