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Date of source: Monday, February 8, 2016
Three years ago, on February 27, 2013, we interviewed Aḥmad Ashūsh in our office. These were the days of President Muhammad Mursī and we then made efforts to understand the motivations of the different people involved various Islamists movements. Aḥmad Ashūsh was arrested in October 2013 for the...
Date of source: Monday, September 12, 2011
The testimony of Field Marshal Hussein Tantāwī, the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, as a witness in the trial of former president Husnī Mubārak, has been postponed to September 24, judicial sources said yesterday.
Date of source: Sunday, January 31, 2010
This article addresses the National Council for Human Rights in Egypt and its 6 years in existence, as well as its future goals and plans. The Council has grown from its inception, but it still struggles with issues concerning how it is viewed by the public. The Council is seen as simply being a...
Date of source: Sunday, July 1, 2001
Al-Ahram al-Arabi shed light on the life of monks under the title "We Are Angels Living on Earth." al-Aḥrār reported that after its journalist visited al-Muharraq monastery, it concluded that the expelled monk’s crimes could not have taken place there as al-Nabaa claimed. The history of Christian...
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2000
International
and local media have pursued the spiritual phenomena of the apparition of the Madonna in
Assiut, where more than 10,000
Muslims and Christians have gathered to witness the miracle, which started
on August 17th.
Date of source: Monday, November 5, 2001
The head of St. Mark’s Cathedral Committee for
National Participation said that he was against terrorism, which was imported to the Arab countries by America in
the first place. Journalist Kamal Zakher believed that the real danger was in having a religious interpretation of
what was going on....
Date of source: Monday, October 29, 2001
A look at history will show that Arab
Christians have always been on the side of their fellow Arab Muslims. Mohammed Auda stressed that Arab Christians
were Arabs in the full sense of the word. Fahmi Howeidi pointed out that Huntington, in his theory about the clash
between civilizations, put...
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2002
Some people believe that one of three things may be the reason behind the imprisoned leaders of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya writing their recent four books: they might have been pressured by the security bodies or that they fear the consequences of the September 11 attacks or that they want to...
Date of source: Monday, March 22, 2004
In an interview with Al-Musawwar
magazine, the Brotherhood’s supreme guide, Muhammad Mahdi Akef presented a contract between the
Brotherhood and the Journalists’ Syndicate in which it was written that the Brotherhood would
rent the hall for a couple of hours to present its statement concerning...
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 2004
Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of the Azhar, formerly Egyptian Mufti , compared the US invasion of Iraq to the liberation of Mecca in an interview with the Al-Hurra channel last week. He explained that US forces came to aid the people of Iraq and rescue them from the tyranny,...
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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.