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Students at the University of North Carolina are
required to read Michael Seller?s "Approaching the Qur?an: The Early Revelations," for their summer reading program.
Some conservative Christian organizations brought an action against the university in an attempt to prevent teaching
the book....
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The Supreme State Security Court sentenced
Saad Eddin Ibrahim to seven years in jail on the charge of receiving donations from the European Union without having
a legal permission. Ibrahim expressed his surprise at the fact that the court gave its ruling in a very short time and
said the...
Date of source: Thursday, July 25, 2002
Al-Wafd and al-Usboa papers are positive toward the Yemeni Shaykh al-Habib al-Gafri and against the decision to deport him. Sout al-Ummah, however, believes that better than deporting him would be to disclose his deception. al-Musawwar interviews him on the reasons behind his deportation and his...
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Al-Ahali has reported that the security
services foiled an attempt to supply runaway members of the Gama?at al-Islāmīyah in Upper Egypt with weapons and
ammunition. It has added that Muhammad al-Islamboli is against the ideological reconsiderations of the group. The
Gama?at al-Islāmīyah have...
Date of source: Friday, May 31, 2002
Al-Akhbar and al-Ahali published four articles on the anniversary of the flight of the Holy Family to Egypt. The four articles touch upon how the Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates this day.
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Muhammad Sayyed al-Ashmawi wrote a book titled "The Reality of Ḥijāb and the Pretext of the Ḥadīth.? He wrote that the way a person dresses is a life-affair [an issue of a personal choice] and has nothing to do with religion and that wearing a higab is not a conclusive religious ordinance....
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Prime Minister Atef Ebeid
inaugurated the 14th General Islamic Conference. It was organized by the Ministry of Waqf in coordination with the
Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs. It was titled ?The Reality of Islām in a Changeable World.?
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Al-Ahali, Rose al-Youssef and October magazine approached four
Christian scholars and clergymen and asked them to explain when, where and why Zionism penetrated Christianity and how
Christianity can face Zionist Christianity.
Date of source: Monday, May 6, 2002
Three widely spread Egyptian papers, al-Ahram, al-Akhbar and al-Gomhuria, gave special attention to the Christian celebration of Easter. So did the publications of three political parties. al-Wafd, al- Ahali and al-Arabi. This text gives a list of the articles published in the six papers.
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Akher Saa, al-
Arabi and al-Ahali approached Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Christian clergymen, from Egypt and Palestine, and
asked them to comment on the crisis of the Church of the Nativity. They all criticized Sharon?s practices against the
birthplace of Jesus Christ and against 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.