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Date of source: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 to Monday, May 29, 2000
Mohammed El-Rifa’i strongly criticized the statement of the Islamic Research Institute and described it as homicide against all intellectuals in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 16, 2000
Al-Shaab launched an attack on the Minister of Culture in several articles in the same issue. Several writers have contributed to this attack in the May 16, issue. Adel Hussein commented on the threats of closing down the Labor Party saying, "Threats of closing down the Party, stopping the paper or...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2000
This article gives a different, and quite refreshing, view of the whole storm that was stirred up by the local press, notably "Al-Shaab", over the novel "A Banquet for Seaweed." The writer asserted that Haider Haider was given on a silver plate the chance of his life to become, almost overnight, a...
Date of source: Thursday, May 18, 2000
Al-Ahrar writes that the Islamic Research Institute of the Azhar announced that Haider’s novel is full of words that humiliate and insult religion, Allah, the Qur’an and Prophet Mohammed. In addition, it said that the Ministry of Culture did not ask the Azhar for its opinion before publishing the...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 to Saturday, May 20, 2000
In this article, Salah Montassar tries to give an overall view about the novel "A Banquet for Seaweed." Firstly, he exposes and comments on the content of the novel. Then he comments on the revolution against the novel by asking whether it was a sincere revolution for religion or simply a secular...
Date of source: Friday, May 19, 2000
The Attorney General announced that the statement issued by the Azhar Islamic Research Institute regarding the novel "A Banquet for Seaweed" will be considered by the Supreme State Security Prosecution. He had also received a note from Farouq Hosni, Minister of Culture, regarding the same issue. In...
Date of source: Saturday, May 13, 2000 to Friday, May 19, 2000
In a quick interview with the Egyptian Minister of Culture, he confirmed that he understood that the Labor Party is now in charge of the preaching mission for extremism. Regarding the statement of Ahmed Omar Hashem, in which he urged the burning of the book, the Minister was shocked, as it reveals...
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Thursday, May 11, 2000
The news paper asked the Minister of Culture to resign as a way to apologize for printing and financing tens of books that are against morality, including "Banquette for Seaweed", and for giving many contradictory declarations.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 16, 2000
Al-Midan published Haider’s interview with the BBC in which he confirmed that the novel has many parts that support Islam. He thinks that what was mentioned by Al-Shaab was to achieve political gains.
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2000
The writer of the article stated that his knowledge about Haider’s novel came from newspapers. Then he recounted what has been written about the novel, starting by the article of Hassan Nour and ending by Abass’ strong article in which he stated that
one of the characters in the novel said 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.