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Date of source: Monday, December 1, 2003
Many members of the Ibn Khaldoun Center have resigned to express their objection to the decision of the US Congress to allocate $2 million to the center, headed by Saad Eddin Ibrahim. They reject Ibrahim´s support for Washington´s use of aid to pressure Egypt to apply democracy. The...
Date of source: Thursday, March 27, 2003
The head of the Egyptian parliament referred an urgent request submitted by a Brotherhood parliamentary member concerning the criticism which the Minister of Education leveled at Qur´an schools to the Education Committee of the parliament. The minister said that such schools are responsible...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 13, 2002
The Brotherhood MP´s managed to pass a law during the last parliamentary term giving the graduates of the Azhar high schools the right to join the police academy. They are now preparing themselves for negotiations with the government to allow Azhar graduates to join governmental universities.
Date of source: Sunday, December 5, 2004
Awqaf Minister Mahmoud Hamdy Zaqzouq said he would not back down on the bid to unify the azan [Muslim call for prayer,] adding preparations are underway.
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 2004
Official reports have confirmed that 75 percent of Egyptians are ignorant about their religion. Do all of these belong to true Islam? This is an issue for all Muslims and not only Egyptians.
A study stressed the fact that Muslims focus on superficial appearances and rituals without being aware...
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 2004
The Brotherhood MPs” never stop showing up before members of their electoral districts through the questions and requests for information that present with hot, eye-catching titles. This is part of an attempt for attracting media attention in spite of the fact that the issues they raise are trivial...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 2004
The American University in Cairo put a condition on its application that prospective female students should not wear the niqab or the face cover. Deputies in the Egyptian parliament, including the Muslim Brotherhood deputies, submitted a request of information to Dr. Moufid Shihab, the minister of...
Date of source: Monday, July 5, 2004
Two months ago, the Council of Governors at the Egyptian government issued a decision to stop building new Azharite Institutes, stop building civil mosques and demolish mosques built without license. This caused angry reactions among the Egyptian public. Eighteen deputies at the People’s Assembly,...
Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2000
Seventy-four Copts are running for the coming parliamentary elections. In spite of this relative large number and in spite of the psychological support they are getting from the political leadership, their path is not furnished with silk. They are facing many problems and hard competition in the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 25, 1999
Members of parliament asked for more clarification concerning the issue of the curriculum produced by the Ibn Khaldoun Centre that was supposedly accepted and approved by the Minister of Education Dr. Hussein Kamal Bahaa’ Eddin.
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.