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Date of source: Thursday, November 27, 2003
The new press campaign against Saadeddin Ibrahim has been as flimsy on evidence as previous allegations against the prominent democracy activist ..questioning his integrity. News coverage of a potential US decision to allocate $2 million to Ibrahim´s Ibn Khaldoun Centre for Development Studies (...
Date of source: Saturday, June 1, 2002
[AWR: This is a full text translation of a Dutch text with permission of the author.]
Sociology professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim: “You can beat Saddam Hussein, no doubt. But what you cannot do is prevent a new Saddam Hussein from appearing, a new Bin Laden. As long as there is no democracy, no state...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 17, 1999
Mahmoud Sayed Gaballah, who is linked to Osama Bin Laden, was arrested by Canadian police on charges that, if proven true, would have led to his immediate deportation. Last Friday, though, a Canadian court not only cleared Gaballah of the charges but recommended he be granted political asylum on...
Date of source: Thursday, November 4, 1999
The government referred 20 suspected members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to military prosecutors on Monday, nearly two weeks after they were arrested in the biggest crackdown on the group in four years. The accused are charged with "disseminating the ideas of the banned group, endangering...
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
The crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood continued as the prosecutor-general extended the detention of 20 alleged Brotherhood activists, arrested two weeks ago, by another 15 days pending investigation.
Date of source: Thursday, October 21, 1999
In a continuing clampdown on the clandestine Muslim Brotherhood, security forces on Thursday detained 20 alleged members of the group. Sixteen of the Islamist leaders were picked up as they held a meeting in the Maadi office of the Engineering Organizations’ Union. Others were arrested at their...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
The US Embassy has issued three-week entry visas to Aisha Hassan and Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, the wife and brother of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, spiritual leader of the underground Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya. The blind cleric is serving a life sentence in a prison in Rochester, Minnesota, for plotting to bomb...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Security forces on Tuesday shot and killed four suspected Islamist militants, including a key figure in the underground Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya, at a hideout in a Giza suburb.
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999 to Wednesday, August 25, 1999
More than 70 Islamists, once affiliated with the militant Jihad group have announced plans to establish a political party under the name Hezb Al-Shari’a or Islamic Law Party. The Islamists have adopted an agenda that calls for Islamicizing society and opposes the normalization of relations with...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
On July 23, on the Cairo-Minya highway a terrible accident happened in which 33 Christian youth lost their lives. There is growing public outrage against the huge number of road accidents which occur annually on Egyptian roads. In 1998 alone, 5,000 people were killed and 22,000 injured in 23,000...
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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.