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Date of source: Friday, December 30, 2005
After negotiations failed to end a three month long sit in being staged by Sudanese refugees in a public square in central Cairo, security forces took measures to end the protest, resulting in a stampede, which killed 25 Sudanese. 76 Egyptian policemen were also injured after demonstrators hurled...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Many Copts have expressed fears that the Muslim Brotherhood’ rise to power will ultimately mould Egypt into a conservative Islamic state, where Copts will be treated as second-class citizens. Fahmī Huwaydī, on the other hand, believes these "Coptic fears” to be groundless, arguing that Copts in...
Date of source: Saturday, December 24, 2005
Zayn al-‘Ābidīn al-Rikābī writes on the two views on the Holocaust. He makes it clear that he sides with those who argue for the existence of the concentration camps that killed scores of Jews during World War II.
Date of source: Saturday, December 24, 2005
‘Ādil Darwīsh believes that there is a common factor among Sydney’s "racial” demonstrations, France’s riots, the London bombings, the Madrid bombings and the murder of Dutch filmmaker, Theo Van Gogh. According to Darwīsh, in all cases, the big cultural gap between immigrants and natives has bred...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 21, 2005
‘Abd al-Mun‘im Sa‘īd examines the success of the Turkish experiment, considered by moderate Muslims to be a model for democratic Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 21, 2005
A press review of attitudes to the Muslim Brotherhood and its role in the new parliament, criticism that the group is putting party politics over the Egyptian people, and statements by leading figures in the group questioning the Holocaust.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Spanish authorities said yesterday that they had arrested 14 fundamentalists on suspicion of recruiting fighters for Iraq’s insurgency.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 20, 2005
A recent fatwa by the muftī of Egypt, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘a, allowing Muslims to sell liquor to non-Muslims in non-Muslim countries, has stirred up wide controversy among Egyptian Muslim scholars.
Date of source: Friday, December 16, 2005
Muhammad Habīb, the deputy murshid, commenting on Murshid cĀkif’s statements that the Muslim Brotherhood would respect existing treaties between Israel and Egypt, said any agreement concluded by a state "is not Qur’ān. It is human action that is subject to review.”
Date of source: Friday, December 9, 2005
Meunier, the leader of the U.S. Copts Association, recently visited Egypt and met with authorities. Members of the associated are angry that he did so without their involvement and claim that he had no right to speak for their organization or for Copts in general. He refutes their claims.
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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.