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Date of source: Sunday, November 25, 2001
Muslims and Christian mulids are celebrated in a similar way and are an expression of their happiness. Muslims are affected by the Christian celebrations and the celebrations of both of them carry Pharaonic features. All Egyptians celebrate the mulids of Sayeda Zeinab [Muslim], Al-Hussein [Muslim...
Date of source: Sunday, November 25, 2001
The Supreme Administrative Court decided to postpone its decision concerning the appeal lodged by the Labor Party to cancel the decision that suspended Al-Shaab paper, the mouthpiece of the Party. Members of the Party made some decisions to regain their unity. Some members objected to these...
Date of source: Sunday, November 25, 2001
Freedom is the core of the Shari’a [Islamic law]. If freedom came to be applied, illegality would disappear and Islamists would be the first ones to benefit from its application. How good would it be if Islamists reached the seat of authority through freedom! It never happened before in any...
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2001
Al-Arabi received many comments on its article "Al-Awa’s fatwa ignites controversy in Al-Wasat" published on November 4. The deputy of Al-Wasat Party said that the article attributed to him things he did not say. The article also claimed that Mamdouh Ismail and Gamal Sultan are members of Al-Wasat...
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2001
What Al-Arabi published about the article of Youssef Sidhom pushed the author to think about the role Arab-Christians play concerning the issue of Jerusalem. He reached the conclusion that the issue of the Arab identity of Jerusalem is one of the things to prove that Copts agree with the rest of...
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2001
Many Christians commented on Al-Arabi’s article "Americanized Christians turning against the pope" which criticized an article by Youssef Sidhom. All comments assured the solidarity of Egyptian people, from all religions, towards the Arab-Israeli conflict. The same comments showed that many...
Date of source: Sunday, August 26, 2001
The author expressed his pride at being an Islamist and someone who likes the Brotherhood and found them to be ideal Muslims. At the same time, he praised the family of the late president Gamal Abdel Nasser, although he was the person who imprisoned the leaders of the Brotherhood.
Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2001
Ibrahim Shukri, the president of the Labor Party went back on his decision concerning dismissing 11 members, representing the Islamic trend in the party. He stressed that it was General Tala’at Muslim [a given name] and not him who took such a decision. The latter denied what Shukri said about him.
Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2001
A lawsuit started by a lawyer against Dr. Nawal Sa’adawi to separate her from her husband raised a number of questions about the intentions and secret agendas of some lawyers and the interest groups supporting them. There is an organized group whose main concern may be to start such lawsuits...
Date of source: Sunday, July 29, 2001
The author expressed the opinion that the yellow press was not born when Al-Nabaa published its story about the expelled monk. It was there long ago before that. But no one moved to stop it except when it touched upon one of the religious holy places, as if Egyptians do not like to follow the...
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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.