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Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Muftī of Egypt ‘Alī Jum‘ah said that he supports dialogue with hardliners because it could help reduce terrorist attacks. However, he insisted that those who continue with violent actions must be dealt with accordingly.
Date of source: Sunday, February 11, 2007
An alleged love affair was about to ignite sedition in Egypt. A school book was banned by a ruling from the Cairo Court for Urgent Affairs.
Date of source:
Mamdouh Mahran, chief
editor of the weekly al-Nabaa, claimed that a former Coptic monk had
practiced prostitution inside the
church. Mahran was highly criticized in Egyptian media and was
accused of
damaging national unity. His
article provoked angry protests by Copts in Assiut and in the main...
2. Labour party’s crisis takes
on new dimensions after the court’s invalidation of
the ban decision.
Date of source:
The current crisis of the
frozen opposition party, al-Amal (Labour), entered a new stage after
the revocation, by the administrative
supreme court, of the ban imposed by the parliamentary committee of parties. There is a
high expectation of
a revival of the same party.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
The niqāb is stirring controversy in different parts of the World. An Egyptian university professor is to be sued for criticizing it; the Egyptian muftī advises that women don’t wear it and students wearing it will be barred from accessing a university hostel. In Western countries it is regarded as...
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The furor continues over the movie of ‘The Da Vinci Code’.
Date of source: Thursday, April 13, 2006
The article asserts that the Egyptian government is releasing members of al-
Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya in batches after they vowed to renounce violence and reintegrate
into society.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
The EU is getting ready to launch a
dictionary to
accurately define Muslim cultural terminology, such as the words jihād,
"fundamentalist" and
"Islamist" in a bid to assert that there is no religion that compels its followers to
commit crimes in its
name.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 31, 2001
On October 29, 2001 a funeral ceremony was arranged in the Catholic Church Bahawalpur, which was led by church leaders. During his address, the Catholic Bishop Andrew Francis of Multan demanded a ban be imposed on all terrorist organizations. About 7,000 Christians, Hindus and Muslims attended the...
Date of source: Saturday, September 22, 2001
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman was interviewed by Egyptian TV to speak about the role of Western media in reporting on the attack in America. The questions directed at him made it obvious that there is a deep mistrust of Western reporting about the Arab and Islamic world. The interviewer believed that...
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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.