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Date of source: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
The author talks about Ḥārat al-Yahūd [Ally of Jews] in Cairo, referring to a number of lawsuits filed by Jews used to live in Egypt 50 years ago, in which they ask Egyptian Government to pay them 5 billion U.S. dollars as compensations on prosperities they left in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Egyptian papers run dozens of articles on a variety of
subjects directly or indirectly related to the Muslim Brotherhood’s military-style rally at Azhar University’s
campus. Analysts and commentators saw the Brotherhood’s military-style protest from various, but still close,
perspectives, with...
Date of source: Saturday, September 16, 2006 to Friday, September 22, 2006
Sayyid Ghannām
writes about the latest controversial fatwá issued by the
muftī. The fatwá
argues that a woman who delivered a child four years after her
husband’s death is not adulterous and that pregnancy
can span more than nine months.
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 2004
The Brotherhood dominated the Egyptian street and it became the nightmare of the National Democratic party not only because of their efficiency, or because religion is one of the main components of the Egyptian character. But there many other reasons: the deteriorated economic conditions of the...
Date of source: Saturday, June 11, 2005
Muhammad al-Najjār presents an over all picture of the new political movements in Egypt that demand a comprehensive political-constitutional reform in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2002
Dr. Nawal Al-Saadawi leads a campaign against male circumcision. The sixth international conference of the Association of the Solidarity of Arab Women, she presides over, showed a scientific film about the circumcision operations on male babies and warned against the dangerous consequences of such...
Date of source: Thursday, May 5, 2005
Writer Muhammad Abu al-Ghār has authored a book about Egyptian Jews, detecting their history from their very beginnings until their departure from Egypt. The book puts the number of Jews who lived in Egypt for several centuries at nearly 10,000 and most of them have lived in the Hāra al-Yahoud [...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Many intellectuals were asked about their opinion regarding the return of Nasr Hamed Abu-Zeid to Egypt. Essam Al-Erain said that he would welcome Dr. Nasr Hamed Abu-Zeid back to Egypt because the case had been transformed from a disagreement on scientific research and points of view into a...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2001
This is not just an interview. It is an attempt to break the silence and conspiracy over Nasr Hamed Abu-Zeid being sent into exile. How long will Nasr Abu-Zeid remain in exile? Who has benefited from changing an intellectual and researcher into a "cultural refugee"? Why does his leaving Egypt now,...
Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2000
Dr. Nasr Abu Zayd delivered this lecture upon accepting the prestigious Cleveringa professorial chair at Leiden University in The Netherlands with the request to teach justice, freedom and responsibility and especially the freedom of religion and liberty of conscience. The lecture discussed the...
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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.