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Date of source: Wednesday, March 31, 2004
In his book “Al-Haraka Al-Islamiya fee Misr—Al-Waqi’ wa Al-Tahadiyat [The Islamic Movement in Egypt—Reality and Challenges], Saleh Al-Wardani writes that the Muslim Brotherhood sent a memo to the palace pledging their allegiance to King Fouad I in 1933. “Perhaps the stands adopted by Banna after...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 21, 2004
In Al-Rehab City [a satellite city northeast of Cairo on Cairo-Suez road], the building of a church was canceled. So Christians living in this city have to attend a church in Cairo, which is very exhausting. There are six mosques inside Al-Rehab City. Both Muslims and Christians contributed to...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Salah Shady, one of the prominent Brotherhood leaders wrote, “Hassan Al-Banna [founder of the Muslim Brotherhood] was the good seed for Islamic thought and Sayyed Qutb was the good fruit.” The life of Sayyed Qutb witnessed many conversions and unlimited mysteries.
Qutb knew how to love and how to...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Adel Hammouda [the editor-in-chief of Sawt El-Umma] wrote about Sayyed Qutb saying that his followers forgot “the days when Qutb wrote about women, love, and Jazz music. They wish that history might forget those days of his life and start his story from the moment of his change to faith. Qutb...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 26, 2004
There are two mysteries in the history of Sayyed Qutb that can hardly be explained. I am mentioning these two mysteries without offering explanations:
The first mystery is the scholarship Qutb got in America. The selection of Sayyed Qutb for this scholarship is the subject of many questions. Qutb...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 9, 2004
We come to the second mystery in the life of Sayyed Qutb. During his time in prison, Qutb received special treatment not enjoyed by other prisoners. At the time, Qutb was the only person who was allowed to keep paper, pens, and books while receiving medical treatment in the prison’s hospital from...
Date of source: Friday, July 30, 2004
Suddenly, Sayyed Qutb placed himself very close to the new power, [the officers of] the July Revolution, and forgot or ignored his fierce defense of the workers and the poor which continued from 1949 till 1951.
It is astonishing that Sayyed Qutb forgot about his call for social justice, yet, it is...
Date of source: Friday, July 2, 2004
The Cairo Social Affairs Department admitted that there is nothing called “The Church of Virgin Mary and Habeel the Pious” in Misr Al-Qadima [old Cairo] district and that it is an imaginary church without a specific location.
A founder of the NGO called Habeel Tawfiq Saeed attempted to change the...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Hassan Al-Banna carefully examined the political situation in Egypt during the 1930s and then decided to establish a strong relationship with Ali Maher [former Egyptian Prime Minister], who was known for his hostility towards the Wafd, contempt of opposition parties and loyalty to the palace. Al-...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s novel “Soqout Al-Imam” [The Fall of the Imam] has been banned. Many
intellectuals have launched a campaign against banning whether by religious or political
authorities. But some intellectuals refused to support Al-Sa’adawi’s novel because they claimed
that has little...
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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.