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Date of source: Saturday, October 27, 2001 to Friday, November 2, 2001
A lawyer raised a case to prevent the film "To make God love you"
from being shown because the word "God" in the title was associated with a picture of a young man and two girls in
an improper position. He tried to obtain a fatwa to support his legal case, by sending a complaint with the case...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2002
The problems of Copts in Egypt are not as simple as the exchanged kisses between Pope Shenouda and the Sheikh of the Azhar. They are also not as complicated as the claims saying that Coptic girls are raped and Coptic young men are forced to convert to Islam. The problems of Copts in Egypt need non-...
Date of source: Thursday, July 26, 2001
Ra’afat Al-Mehi’s film script "Hurghada...the Magic of Love" which deals with the issue of mixed marriages between Muslim men and Christian women is painful for Christians, not only because Christians oppose such mixed marriages but also because the location for Al-Mehi’s script is in Hurghada...
Date of source: Sunday, July 15, 2001
Ra’afat Al-Mehi’s script "Hurghada...the Magic of Love," deals with the issue of mixed marriages between Muslim men and Christian women. He expresses the opinion that the restrictions religions put on marriage are nothing more than stupidity practiced by priests and sheikhs and that to solve the...
Date of source: Saturday, June 2, 2001 to Friday, June 8, 2001
The author believes that while the Qur’an speaks highly of monasteries, Ra’fat Al-Meihi’s novel "Hurgada.. Love magic," describes them as places where fugitives and corrupt people hide. It also paints a stupid picture of a Christian man who is ready to make his son a Muslim to marry a Muslim girl....
Date of source: Saturday, May 19, 2001 to Friday, May 25, 2001
Movie director Ra’fat Al-Meihi is thinking of turning his novel "Hurghada: Love Magic" into a film. The story is about a Christian girl who loves a Muslim police officer. Al-Meihi said that the meaning he wanted to deliver was that each one of us has the right to express his love in the way he...
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.