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Date of source: Saturday, December 7, 2002 to Friday, December 13, 2002
Some readers believe that the press does serve the society or care about the problems of ordinary citizens. They ask for a free press that credibly expresses their daily problems and troubles. Other readers believe that the Egyptian press is free and honest and a true reflection of the problems of...
Date of source: Saturday, November 16, 2002 to Friday, November 22, 2002
The author asks whether the concept of "Religion is for God and the nation is for everyone" is merely a motto. Limiting religion to the relationship between man and God is a condition for the realization of this concept. Every one has the right to choose his/her religion as long as he or she does...
Date of source: Saturday, October 26, 2002 to Friday, November 1, 2002
Rose El-Youssef´s special file for this week tackles the conflict erupted between the governor of Al-Gharbia and the Muslim Brotherhood because of Al-Geel Al-Muslim schools. It comments on a recent study by Specialized National Councils that calls for deepening religious beliefs in the minds...
Date of source: Saturday, October 12, 2002 to Friday, October 18, 2002
President Bush supports a project to prohibit mixing of sexes in American schools. Some people wonder how that could happen in America. Members of Bush´ administration hold dogmatic and retrospective ideas. They call for the preservation of traditions. Bush´s support for the segregation...
Date of source: Saturday, May 11, 2002 to Friday, May 17, 2002
The sexual misconduct of some Catholic priests brought to the surface the issue of marriage and celibacy in Christianity. St. Paul advocated celibacy and virginity because of his belief in the coming of Jesus Christ, which needs man to be free from this world. It was also believed that sex keeps...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Noah, Lot, Joseph, Jacob, Job, David, Solomon, Moses and Jesus are all messengers of God. So why then should we deny their followers and dub them as kufar [unbelievers] just because the vocabulary of their creeds differs from that of Islam?
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2002
The tragedy of Muslim societies is that religion is not separated from life, in a way that serves human progress nor is it part of life, in a way that makes of religion an intellectual and enlightened energy against whatever suppresses man, whether political or economic or religious authorities.
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
A group of scholars and intellectuals traveled last week to Europe in order to “improve the image of Islam and Muslims” in Western public opinion. The program aims at eliminating mistaken ideas about Islam. This coincided with an agreement taken by a number of Muslim businessmen in Canada and the U...
Date of source: Saturday, March 5, 2005
An article about honor killings:
- “He killed his wife and charred her body after she left the house without informing him.”
- “He blew his wife’s brains out because she did not serve him lunch.”
- “He threw his wife off the 10th floor for rejecting to wear the hijāb.”
- “He shot his 10-year-...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
Proper logic says that it is foolish for people to fight each other because some of them have black eyes and are short while the others are not. The same logic judges that it is also foolish for people to fight each other for nothing except that some of them inherited Islam and others Christianity...
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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.