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Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
Tilwāna, in the
governorate of al-Minoufiya, one of Egypt’s impoverished villages with a population of 18,000 people, has out of the blue
turned into a military barrack.
Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
The same old boring
story is repeated over and over again. Despite proven groundless and fabricated, many reiterate the serial of kidnapping
Christian girls in collusion with the State security apparatus.
Date of source: Thursday, April 7, 2005
The website “al-Aqbāt Mutahidoun” [Copts united] posted an article urging Christians
to run for the presidential election. The article states ten reasons to participate.
Date of source: Thursday, April 7, 2005
The U.S. ambassador granted 1 million dollars to seven Egyptian Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) active in democratization. These donations are not deducted from the Egyptian allocations by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Date of source: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Emigrant Copts alleged 19-year-old Christian girl, Nivīn Māhir was forced to convert to
Islam. They went as far as inciting the Copts of Egypt to manifest in every possible peaceful way; hunger strikes, marching
in protests in front of international organizations, the Republican Palace, the...
Date of source: Thursday, March 24, 2005
A Saudi surprise
Everybody knows about the strict
law in Saudi Arabia banning women from driving their own cars (no one knows why!). What really came as a surprise was a news
item reported by many agencies about a Saudi girl, Marwa Mahmoud, who won a women’s car race held in Dubai.
Date of source: Thursday, March 24, 2005
The relation between the late president Jamāl ‘Abd al-Nāsir and the Muslim Brotherhood is debatable. Councilor al-Dimirdāsh al-‘Uqaylī, former member of the secret formation of the Muslim Brotherhood, confessed that Abd al-Nāssir’s contributions to the Brotherhood were more than mere revolutionary...
Date of source: Thursday, March 17, 2005
The former Muftī of Egypt has recently said women, from an Islamic point of view, can not assume the post of head of state, and of course Dr. Nawāl al-Sacdāwī, who had announced her self-nomination for presidency, has not wasted the chance to deal a violent attack on our beautiful religion of Islam...
Date of source: Thursday, March 10, 2005
No one paused to ask himself/herself why girls convert to Islam. Is it because of special problems regarding the personal status file, which has been neglected by the Church and must be opened immediately? The whole thing simply lies with the Church in Egypt, and the sensitivity with which matters...
Date of source: Thursday, March 10, 2005
Although it was the Grand Imam of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, who had recommended the appointment of Shaykh cAlī Jumca as the Muftī of the Republic, their squabbles have not ceased. Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘a was perceived as violating the unanimous fatwas of the Islamic Research Institute...
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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.