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Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2004
No one can offer an explanation for the reasons of this decision except the heads of opposition parties, most of whom deliberately did not attend the meetingin which the exclusion of the Brotherhood was approved.
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2004
The international Catholic organization of Caritas launched a [missionary] campaign in Darfour targeting 125,000 Muslims. Caritas also announced that it plans to send new volunteers to work in Darfour with two hundred Catholic missionaries.
• See arts. arts. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2004
A girl called Asmaa Muhammad Zaki who suffers from mental illness, disappeared. This girl’s father accidentally found out that his daughter converted to Christianity.
On another level, an extremist priest called Marcos Zakariya [the correct name is Zakariya Botros See AWR 2004, week 22, art. 24]...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2004
The Freedoms Committee of the Journalists Syndicate condemned the government’s suspension of a number of websites, including the Brotherhood’s website “Ikhwan on line” and the websites of the newspapers Al-Shaab and Al-Methaq Al-Arabi. The Committee pointed out that the suspension of websites is a...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2005
A demographic survey conducted in the late 1990s showed that half of Egyptian women have been battered at least once during the year that preceded the research while statistics on honor killings in Egypt from 1998 till 2001 showed that 79% of these crimes are the result of sheer doubts.
Date of source: Thursday, January 18, 2001
The spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood expressed his uneasiness about calls for the return of the electoral list. He believes that this is against the constitution and aims to rule out certain political trends. He noted that the brotherhood’s attitude concerning the Shura Council’s elections is...
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Dr. Mustafa Al-Fiqi, the assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, declared that Egyptian-Iranian relations are about to be restored. This follows Iran’s agreement with Egypt’s suggestion, to change the name of the Khaled Al-Islambouli Street in Tehran, to Sheikh Mahmoud Shaltout Street.
Date of source: Thursday, September 21, 2000
Concerted efforts to reconcile the Sheikh of the Azhar and the Scholars’ Front failed after Dr. Tantawi declared that he did not acknowledge the existence of the Scholars’ Front. On the other hand, the General Secretary of the Front said, " the existence of the Azhar Scholars’ Front is a fact that...
Date of source: Thursday, June 22, 2000
Professor Mahmoud Ghazi, member of the Pakistani National Security Council and member of the Da’awa [calling people to join the faith of Islam] Academy in Pakistan talked to Afaq Arabia concerning the status of Da’awa in south and central Asia.
Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
Afaq Arabia ran an article by Abdullah Al-Tahawy saying that some weak and uncreative writers find insulting Islamic values the shortest way to be famous. Some writers want their books to be banned, then they can run to Human Rights Groups and the Leftists and start wailing about the lack of...
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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.