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Date of source: Sunday, August 6, 2000
The Center of Saint Youssef for the Holy Family in Cairo is witnessing a great uptake by Christians, from the three denominations [Orthodox, Catholics and Protestant], and also Muslims who are about to get married. The Center organizes two courses per year; a winter course that lasts six months...
Date of source: Sunday, August 6, 2000
In this article, the author exposes writings of Gamal Hamdan who wrote his point of view about the extremist Gama’at Al-Islamya, the religious parties, the state and secularism. The author ends his article by pointing out the solution Hamdan suggested to face the strategy of the enemies of Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, July 23, 2000
Subtitles: * Sadat ruled him out of the vote for a new Pope and then later gave him three hundred fidans in the desert. * He was the first monk to have a university qualification and Pope Shenouda was one of his followers in the monastery. * He said to me that Sadat’s eyes were red when he got...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 12, 2000
Father Matta Al-Maskeen succeeded in closing the curtain on one of the deepest divisions in the history of the Coptic church when he told His Excellency Pope Shenouda III on television that he would concede on the issue of the farm of the monastery of Saint Maqarios, which lies at the seventy...
Date of source: Sunday, July 16, 2000
Dr. Mohammed Said Tantawi, Sheikh of the Azhar, decreed that womb transplant is allowed as long the operation does not involve transplanting the womb to a woman who is related to the donor. Dr. Muhammed Bakr Isma’il, Chairman of the Department for Shari’a Law at the Azhar University, supports the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 9, 2000
Subtitles:
*Coptic businessmen are the magical solution for oppositions parties.
*Gamal Asa’d, Rami Lakah, Mounir Fakhri and Ghali are to win in the coming elections.
*A Coptic young man is asking whether Ghali is a Coptic person or a minister.
In this article, the author tries to answer different...
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2000
In an interview with Al-Arabi, Dr. Nasr Farid Wasel, the Mufti of Egypt gave his opinion concerning normalization with Israel, saying explicitly" I am against any co-operation with the enemy". He was also strong in urging for technological support in Muslim countries, in changing and developing...
Date of source: Sunday, June 18, 2000
Al-Arabi published the full text of the sessions that the Attorney General and his two assistant counselors had with Shukri and Mesallam. While the Attorney General and his two assistants considered the sessions to be straight forward political talks and discussions, the author insisted on calling...
Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
The evaluation committee, composed of five eminent Egyptian critics, produced a report in which they explain on which grounds the literary works are evaluated. The committee asserted that a general reading of Haider’s novel doesn’t give the impression that any blasphemy was intended.
Other articles...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 3, 2000
The Jewish state started to look for the decreasing number of Egyptian Jews, who have refused to immigrate to Israel. They preferred to stay in Egypt in order to maintain the synagogues. The case was reopened after the publishing last week of a feature in
"Ma’aref" newspaper about the situation and...
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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.