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Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2000
The controversy around the TV show Awan al-Ward, which presented a mixed marriage between a Muslim and Christian, escalated this week with three cases filed against its author. Many Egyptian and Arabic-language papers dedicated much space to the film. Al-Ḥayāt said Awān al-Ward raised controversy...
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The Criminal
Court of
Sohag decided to delay its verdict in the case of al-Kosheh to the ninth of January and to release all accused
Muslims and Christians. The head of the court declared that the reasons behind such a decision is that
there is no need for
custody imprisonment and that number...
Date of source:
The film "Awan
Al-Ward" which tackles the mixed marriage between Moslems and Christians
and their daily interaction, released an
unprecedented controversy. The writer of the film said that the
Minister of Information asked him to write about national
unity and that through the film he wants to...
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The Criminal Court of Sohag started examining the case of
Al-Kosheh. Ninety-six persons, amongst them 32
Christians, are accused. The court heard the defense’s
discussion with some witnesses of the defense. It also decided to
take a witness for the prosecution into
custody because of his...
Date of source:
The victory of the
Moslem Brotherhood in the recent parliamentary elections in which they obtained 17 seats created many
speculations about what
they would do in the future, especially after they announced their intention to
form a new political party. al-Musawar
discarded the possibility of...
Date of source:
The ninth Islamic
Conference concluded its summit in Doha with a
long detailed statement including a call to end all types of normalization
with Israel, economic aid for
the Palestinians and a lifting of sanctions on Iraq. The most surprising outcome of the summit
was a break
of hostility...
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The Supreme Military Court pronounced its sentence in the case
of the
professional syndicates, in which 20 members of the Brothers are accused. All the accused were
charged with joining a banned
group that was established in violation of the law. Dr. Essam al-Arian, the
spokesman of the...
Date of source:
The ninth
Islamic Summit started in al-Doha, in Qatar, with a spirit of understanding and agreement on all the issues on its
agenda. However, there were conflicts regarding the issue of boycotting Israel. The Palestinian
representative was able to
achieve a compromise that gives the members the...
Date of source: Sunday, November 5, 2000
The Supreme
Constitutional Court decided to abolish the decree of the Minister of
Interior which made it necessary for
the husband to agree to his wife traveling abroad as a prerequisite to issue her a
passport. In addition,
it canceled the Presidential decree which entitled the Minister of...
Date of source:
The
campaign against Saad Eddin Ibrahim and his committee has continued in the Egyptian media, following his
referral to the high
court of state security.
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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.