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Date of source: Saturday, January 2, 2021
The history of the late Waḥīd Ḥāmid’s works shows that he was a role model for artists and creative types. He knew, according to the title of his early film “Man Only Lives Once” (1981) that the intellectual’s intense struggle with power would bring an end to the stable life that he had wanted to...
Date of source: Saturday, January 2, 2021
Author and screenwriter Waḥīd Ḥāmid passed away at the age of 77 on January 2. He is considered one of the most important and prominent people in Egyptian Cinema with regards to countering terrorism and the extremism of political Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, August 5, 2017
Ḥāmid starts his article by stating his own opinion on the trending Fatwa kiosk by saying, “ The Fatwa Kiosk is a heresy invented by hastened Shaykhs.
Date of source: Saturday, September 8, 2007 to Friday, September 14, 2007
Waḥīd Ḥāmid compares the Islamic Justice and Development Party [AKP] in Turkey, which has reached power, and the Muslim Brotherhood group in Egypt. He believes that the Turkish party has managed to attain power by concerning themselves with the real problems of people, unlike Islamists in Egypt...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 24, 2007
The article talks about the increasing violence on both the Islamic and Christian sides when a mixed religion marriage takes place.
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Information Minister Mamduh al-Beltagui’s landmark decision to refer the TV series Bint min Shubra [A girl from Shubra], starring Laila Elwi, to the Egyptian Church and the Azhar for opinion has sparked a row. All this haggling was because the heroine Maria, a Catholic Italian, is getting married...
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In an unprecedented event in Egyptian cinema, Baheb al-Sima (I Love Cinema) portrays members of a Christian family as the protagonists in a film that deals with family relationships set in the 1960s. The film caused much controversy not only because it is the first film to show Christian as the...
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Supporters of Sheikh Amr Khaled praise his preaching and his efforts to teach youths their religion. His opponents believe he has shallow religious knowledge and thus is not qualified to preach. Al-Arabi attacks a Coptic journalist because he expressed his opinion on Khaled and the issue of the...
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2001
Mahmoud al-Kurdi
believed that "Awan al-Ward"
highlighted the fact that building the civilization of Egypt would not be achieved
except through the arms
of both Muslims and Christians. Awdet Iskander wrote that Wahid Hamid was mistaken when he
chose a mixed
marital relationship as the plot of...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 2, 2001
Hani Labeeb
wrote to al-Usboa criticizing the reaction of some Coptic religious men towards the serial "Awan al-
Ward,"
as being extremist. Two articles in al-Ahram praised the series, confirming that there is love between
Muslims and Christians. The writer of the serial told al-Raya al-Masri...
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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.