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Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
What has happened to us that has made our youth become professional kidnappers and assassins, and made suicide operations a means of resistance and expression? I ask this question and think about the Iraqi scenario where many European journalists and Turkish and Asian workers have been killed in...
Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 2004
The latest incidents in Iraq are the most obvious evidence of our malady. The nationalists, the fundamentalists would rather call the latest incidents “resistance to occupation.” But the other side of these incidents is the inner illness of this society. This illness made it possible for what is...
Date of source: Friday, September 3, 2004
The kidnappers of foreign hostages in Iraq, whether they are affiliated with Al-Qa’ida or not, demand the removal of foreign military presence. They try to achieve this through kidnapping civilians whose only fault is that they are citizens of a certain country that agreed to the US’s call and sent...
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
The Lebanese Shiite religious authority Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadl Allah, released a statement that dealt with the child-hostage taking in Russia, and with events in Iraq. The statement said: “We reject – strongly – the hostage-taking of children in their school in southern Russia. We also reject...
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 2004
American Authorities cancelled a one-year visa for work it had previously granted to the grandson of the founder of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Tareq Ramadan, who teaches Islam at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and the University of Freirburg [in Germany], was planning to work for one...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 25, 2004
The defense team of Dr. Omar Abdel Al-Rahman, the spiritual leader of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya imprisoned in the US, started the procedures for filing a lawsuit against the Egyptian government for what it called “Its lagging in requesting the US to extradite Adel Rahman.” Abdel Rahman is serving a...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 25, 2004
A Kuwaiti Islamist Member of Parliaments threatens to question the Kuwaiti Minister of Information and other government officials in Parliament. The Kuwaiti MP criticized Kuwaiti Television for airing the competitions of the Olympic Games in Athens which women participate in. Awad Al-Anzi said that...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
I do not agree with the term “political Islam” because it involves a scientific, methodological mistake. Today, there are some Muslims who use religion in order to realize political ends. Those who do this don not abide by Islamic principles and values, they only chose from these principles and...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Henry Laurens is on his way to take the place of Jack Perck [name is transliterated from Arabic original, we do not know whether the spelling of his name is correct], and Louis Masignon in the specialization and analysis of Arab issues. This young researcher, who is not yet fifty, was recently...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 25, 2004
The General Prosecutor ordered the release of Karam Gabr, the managing editor of the weekly magazine Rose Al-Youssef on recognizance [An obligation entered into before a court whereby the recognizor acknowledges that he will do a specific act required by law] of his press card after the complaint...
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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.