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Different Egyptian authors ponder about how to build bridges between the
Islamic world and the West.
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Date of source: Tuesday, July 8, 2003
For three consecutive issues, Rose al-Youssef devoted a special file for comments on the Egyptian identity under a general title ?Egypt is First and Before All.? Part of the file is three interviews with poet and writer Ahmed Abdel-Mo’ti Hegazi. Among his comments on the effects of Arab nationalism...
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Al-Qahera published three articles commenting on the Arab Culture Conference in Cairo. Al-Liwa al-Islami interviewed three Muslim scholars to comment on the conference.
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The four newspapers comment on the Arab Culture Conference in Cairo. Some articles praise it and others think it is an ?anti-Islam? conference.
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The Arab Culture Conference in Cairo, which was organized by the Ministry of Culture and the Supreme Council of Culture, from the first to the third of July, received a lot of criticism. It is believed to have called for Western intervention and for anti-Islamic ideas. The conference, titled ?...
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Following the presidential decree that appointed Dr. Ali Goma?a as the new mufti of Egypt, succeeding Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayyeb who takes over as rector of the Azhar University, succeeding Dr. Ahmed Omar Hashim, many papers interviewed the two men and gave short backgrounds about each of them. In these...
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Students at the University of North Carolina are
required to read Michael Seller?s "Approaching the Qur?an: The Early Revelations," for their summer reading program.
Some conservative Christian organizations brought an action against the university in an attempt to prevent teaching
the book....
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Prime Minister Atef Ebeid
inaugurated the 14th General Islamic Conference. It was organized by the Ministry of Waqf in coordination with the
Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs. It was titled ?The Reality of Islām in a Changeable World.?
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Egypt?s new Muftī stressed that there will be coordination among the different
Islamic institutions to arrive at a unified Islamic opinion and to help people avoid confusion that results from
contradictory Fatāwá. He said that he is a son of the Azhar and so he will be keen on not issuing Fatāwá...
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Some papers claimed that the Shaykh of the Azhar refused
to extend the period in office of Dr. Nasser Farid Wassel as a Muftī for Egypt and appointed instead of him Dr. Ahmad
El-Tayyeb because the former Muftī issued many Fatāwá that corticated his Fatāwá. Other papers shed light on 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.