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Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2000
Al-Shaab carried out a fierce campaign against the novel "Banquet for the Seaweed". It opened with an article which stated that the people’s outrage against the Minister of Culture has transferred from the Azhar University to the Faculty of Islamic Studies. Page 3 showed the opinion of some...
Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
For the third day, several students from the Azhar University joined in a hunger strike inside the male and female dormitories. Students gathered at the University City mosque and shouted against the Government and the Minister of Culture. They refused to participate in negotiations conducted by...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2000
75 students were held in detention for 15 days for participating in the Azhar riots, and for some other charges. The students revealed their refusal of Haider’s "Banquet for the Seaweed".
Other articles about the same subject appeared in Al-Akhbar, Al-Wafd, Al-Ahrar of the same day.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 9, 2000
Subtitle: The Minister of Culture: We don’t approve of any form of blasphemy
Groups of the Azhar University students gathered near midnight on May 7 at the Azhar University City to proclaim their opposition to the work of Haider Haider " Banquet for the Seaweed". The Minister of Culture explained...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 9, 2000
Haider is astonished by the critical attack in Egypt against his work" Banquet for the Seaweed". He says that characters in literary works are free to think as they wish, even to adopt opposing thoughts.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Sunday, May 14, 2000
More than 1500 persons applauded and shouted urging the destitution of the Culture Minister, Farouk Hosni, during last Friday’s conference of the Amal [Labor] party. The publishers of Al-Shaab Newspaper launched a severe campaign against the writer of the novel "Banquet for the seaweed" and accused...
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2000 to Saturday, May 13, 2000
As Dr. Mohammed Abbas has the right to criticize the novel "A Banquet for the seaweed", and to express whatever he likes, we also can give our opinion without being banned. Mohammed Al-Qodousi’s analysis of the novel is more important than that of Abbas.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2000
In a special declaration to Al-Ahrar newspaper, the Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, revealed that his ministry did not confiscate the novel "A banquet for the seaweed" by the Syrian writer Haider Haider, and it was not taken off the market. He added that the committee which examine the novel...
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2000
The Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni defended the lately controversial novel "Banquet for the seaweed" by the Syrian writer Haider Haider. The Minister criticized the polemic and described it as "non objective dealing, which aimed achieving only political targets, for the benefit of it’s promoters...
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2000 to Friday, May 12, 2000
Hanaa Fathi describes Haider’s book as a "wonderful novel". Haider Haider foresaw what happened in Algeria. Haider developed the story along two parallel lines, one extremely political and the other, delicate fine literature. Both lines ended in a mythological love story.
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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.