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Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 1999
The detailed [US] report on Egypt states that the Egyptian constitution ensures the freedom of belief and the right to exercise the religious rituals within certain limitations portrayed by the state.
Date of source: Thursday, September 23, 1999
The legal advisor of the French Government supports the decree of the Ministry of Education of driving away two veiled students from one of its secondary schools.
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
The truth should be known but the situation in Egypt remaining fixed in non-transparency resulting in public mistrust of whatever comes from the official mass media sources in their country. Thus we loose our trustworthiness, and in addition we contribute in the creation of an environment conducive...
Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 1999
The report of the American Foreign Ministry concerning religious freedom in the world spoke about the climate of religious tolerance in Egypt, and it said that the [Egyptian] government had decided to support the teaching of both Coptic and Byzantine history in the schools, just as [also] the...
Date of source: Friday, August 13, 1999
Dr. Hussein Bahaa’ Eddin accused an Islamic group of spreading rumors about the Ministry of Education perverting the Holy Hadiths [the Islamic traditions concerning the Prophet Mohammed and other prophets] in the educational syllabuses, deleting some of the Qur’anic verses, and [by the ministry...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
Infringement on personal freedom or sound educational policy? The ban on wearing the niqab, or full face-veil, in schools has stirred intense controversy and a lengthy legal battle ever since it was issued by Minister of Education Hussein Kamel Bahaaeddin in 1994. The legal wrangle came to an end...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
The High Administrative Court has decided to ban students from entering schools while wearing a niqab (full-face veil).
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 1999
The author of this article says that there are two reasons for the "stinking smell" of the Ibn Khaldoun Center project of rewriting certain syllabuses for schools. These are: first, the life of the people responsible for this project. Second the ideas of the project itself.
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 16, 1999
A series of educational books recently published by the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development have raised some eyebrows and triggered a crisis in the Ministry of Education, among religious scholars and more recently [have] drawn angry protests from the People’s Assembly.
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 1999
The Ministry of Education confirms the participation of Minister of Education Bahaa Eddin in the Ibn Khaldoun Center’s recent symposium on developing new curricula for use in pre-university education, but denies that he said that the curriculum of the Center was insulting to the Prophet [Mohammed}...
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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.