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The Prosecutor
General ordered the freezing of the judicial investigation of
Nawal al-Sa’adawi, concerning the
notification, lawyer Nabih al-Wahish introduced against her. After the
investigation he ordered her
acquittal because nothing in the notification indicated that she had committed an...
Date of source:
The Supreme State Security Court sentenced Saad Eddin Ibrahim to seven years
imprisonment with hard labor.
Nadia Abdel Nour, the financial director of the Center, Khalid Fayad, Salwa
Hamid and Marwa Zaki were sentenced to
two years with hard labor. Another three defendants were sentenced
to...
Date of source: Saturday, May 19, 2001
Pope Shenouda issued a Papal decree to the effect that Christian clergy are not
allowed to run
in the elections of the People’s Assembly and the Shūrá Council. However, Archpriest Matta
Sawerus stressed that
the Pope did not issue such a decree as he had agreed to his nomination to represent...
Date of source:
The US Commission for International Religious Freedom refused to issue a
report about its visit to Israel, which aimed at investigating the religious situation there. The Secretary
General
of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights considered this evidence of using the file of
religious...
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The court of Cassation postponed
giving its opinion concerning the appeals filed against al-Kosheh rulings
by the Prosecutor General and the
four convicted defendants until the session of July 30. The upshot of the report,
the Cassation prosecution
introduced to the court was appealing against...
Date of source:
An
apostasy claim against Nawal al-
Sa’adawi -following the publishing of an interview in which she criticized Islām -
stirred up a social
debate on her opinions and raised fears for her life. al-Sa’adawi contested what she called
perfectly set
traps of the yellow papers in collusion with...
Date of source:
The
State Security Supreme Court decided to postpone the trial of Saad
Eddin Ibrahim to the 19th of the coming month.
Lawyer Abdel Haleem Mandour, who defends the fifth and sixth
defendants and known for being an Islamist, said that
he will not only defend his clients but all the
defendants,...
Date of source:
The Supreme Court of
State Security
continued the trial of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Ibrahim is accused of receiving funds without having
permission, bribing public officials, undermining the dignity of the state by broadcasting information
having to do
with its interests and deceiving foreign...
Date of source:
The Washington Post newspaper
published a statement directed from the Copts of Egypt to emigrant Copts. The statement stressed that Copts
in
Egypt are enjoying a good life and that the last three years witnessed the exertion of great efforts, on
the part
of the Egyptian government, to solve...
Date of source:
Azhar
scholars rejected
Prof. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi’s Fatwá that allows a couple not able to bear children to
implant their zygote in the
womb of another woman. They announced him a deviant from true Islām. Bayoumi
said he is ready to turn from this
fatwa if any medical discovery proved that...
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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.