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Date of source: Thursday, May 13, 2004
Montaser Al-Zayyat, the lawyer of fundamentalists in Egypt, responded to the accusations directed to him by the Palestinian fundamentalist Abu Qatada, currently detained in Britain. Al-Zawahry said that Abu Qatada and others similar to him are blowing in fire and ignite strife in spite of the fact...
Date of source: Thursday, May 13, 2004
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord George Carey yesterday called upon Muslim leaders all over the world to publicly condemn the crime of cutting the head of Nick Berg. The secretary general of the British Islamic Council Iqbal Saqrani made clear that Muslims inside and outside Britain do not need...
Date of source: Monday, May 24, 2004
A few days ago, I witnessed a highly sophisticated intellectual discussion at a lecture in Paris given by Gamal Al-Banna. In his lecture, he outlined the main points of his project: To purify the heritage of all the deposits that separate us from the Holy Qur’an. He said that we live in a confused...
Date of source: Friday, May 21, 2004
The first deputy of the supreme guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Dr. Muhammad Al-Sayyed Habib, denied that the Muslim Brotherhood is afraid of the formation of the Al-Wasat Al-Islami [The Islamic Middle] Party, most of whose members are dissenters from the Brotherhood. Habib said that he...
Date of source: Saturday, May 22, 2004
What is the story of the Arab Institution for Ideological Modernization which initiated its activity recently in Beirut with a conference attended by up to 130 Arab intellectuals? What is the reason for appointing the controversial Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid chairman of the Institution? Is there any...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 1, 2004
The Egyptian Higher State Security Prosecution renewed the jail sentence of 53 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood for a period of 15 days pending investigations into the group’s most recent cases.
The authorities are still searching for three suspects wanted in relation to the case, two of...
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 2004
Those who have doubts about how committed Islamic movements are to the principle of democracy have every reason to doubt. Every single group of these Islamists has practiced bloody violence. These movements have shifted their programs after September 11. Previously, they considered, democracy,...
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 2004
Ten days after Egyptian authorities cracked down on a new cell of the Muslim Brotherhood in seven Egyptian governorates, the top suspect in the case, Dr. Usama Nassar, surrendered himself voluntarily to authorities.
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
The Egyptian Higher Institute for Culture sponsored the Conference on Translating and Connecting Cultures, aiming to connect civilizations and eliminate misunderstandings between different cultures. As a result of the political conditions surrounding the Arab region, participants spent the four...
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
Three runaway suspects turned themselves in to the Egyptian authorities, increasing the number of arrested Muslim Brotherhood members to fifty-eight. One Muslim Brotherhood member, Muhammad Ibrahim, has yet to be arrested.
The prosecution for Higher State Security sentenced the three suspects to...
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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.