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Date of source: Saturday, December 1, 2007 to Friday, December 7, 2007
In the wake of two important conferences held recently in Cairo about citizenship rights and democracy, Diana al-Dab‘ examines the role of Copts in diaspora in these two conferences.
Date of source: Sunday, December 2, 2007
Robeir al-Faris recently published a book entitled, ‘The Muslim Brothers (MB) and the Copts…Repercussions of Confrontation and Dialogue.’ The following article presents an overview of the book.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Politicians, thinkers, and human right activists have asserted that the long-awaited platform of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group is a huge jump backward in politics as it clearly rules women and Coptic citizens out of high leading positions.
Date of source: Friday, August 31, 2007
The authors criticize the head of Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies Dr. Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm for claiming that he is a human rights activist in Egypt, when he has noticeably been adopting different political approaches to suit his personal interests.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 22, 2007
The author discusses the formation of Islamic parties such as the Muslim Brotherhood’s unfinished party, the "Union for Freedom" Party, and the would-be al-Wasat Party. The author relates this recent phenomenon to the sweeping victory of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey. He criticizes...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Mr. Feije Duim of the Dutch organization Kerkinactie visits AWR.
Continuing heated discussions on conversions in Egyptian media.
AḤmad al-Si‘dāwī describes the recent phenomenon of Coptic demonstrations.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 4, 2007
The recently announced introspections of the Jihād Islamic group revived discussions about the 10-year old revisions of al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah. On the tenth birthday of the group’s inspections, Muntasir al-Zayyāt announced the establishment of a new political party. Al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah...
Date of source: Saturday, June 16, 2007
During the Conference on Democracy and Security held in Prague, the Human Rights activist
Dr. Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm asked President Bush to decrease a part of the American aid to Egypt. This
is in order to place pressure on the regime to be more concerned about democracy and Human Rights within...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 30, 2007
The article provides a listing of articles on two controversial Fatwás issued by the Muftī of Egypt and a professor at the Azhar University. The first fatwá says that the prophet’s urine used to be given to his companions for blessings. The second one urges working women to breastfeed their male co...
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Terrorism has proliferated in nearly all Islamic and Arab countries despite the differences between the ruling regimes. Within the Palestinian people’s resistance against the Israeli occupation, the phenomenon spread that some called “suicide bombing” and others called “martyrdom operations.”
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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.