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Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
Next Saturday, the Coptic researcher, Nabil Luqa Bebawy will discuss his Ph.D thesis. titled “The Rights and Duties of Christians in Muslim Countries and How they Affect National Security.” at the headquarters of the Faculty of High Education at the Police Academy.
Bebawy explained that he sought...
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
Many Muslim thinkers and scholars have occupied themselves with the issue of democracy in Western civilization and its comparison with the Islamic system of shura [consultation], especially after the proposed U.S. reform project known as the Greater Middle East was introduced. This study examines...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Novelist Hassan Dawoud, whose novels have been translated thus far into four languages, said that Western publishing houses search for their interests and profits first. Translating from Arabic is very expensive because experts in the language are rare, causing publishing houses to be very careful...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 16, 2004
In an unprecedented move, Abdel Mon’em Abdel Maqsoud, lawyer of the banned Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, announced that the group has set up its first center for human rights, called Sawasiya [Equality] Center for Human Rights and Against Torture.
Date of source: Monday, June 21, 2004
The leaders of the Egyptian Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya criticized Al-Qa’ida, led by Usama Ben Laden, as “having strange calculations and mixing things up because it declared war on the whole world when it does not have enough power.” The leaders of Al-Gama’a stressed in their new book that Al-Qa’ida “...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Asharq Al-Awsat obtained the publishing rights of the book written by Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya member Nageh Ibrahim in which he chronicles the ideas of the group’s historical leaders. Titled “Al-Islam wa Tahadiyat Al-Qarn Al-Eshreen” [Islam and the challenges of the 21st century], the book presents...
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 2004
A group of Islamic scholars and representatives of other religions held a meeting in Geneva, under the auspices of the Ta’arof [Acquaintance] Institution and the Qortoba Institution, to lay the foundations of dialogue between religions based on transparency. The symposium, attended by Islamic...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Shabina Begoum, A 15-year old Bengali Muslim student living in Britain, said that the school prevented her from wearing a jelbab that covers her entire body except her hands and face. She said that her education has been affected and her human rights violated as a result of this decision. The...
Date of source: Saturday, June 26, 2004
The Egyptian minister of Awqaf [Religious Endowments] Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq denied reports in an independent Egyptian newspapers claiming the presence of American pressure on Egypt to limit the construction of mosques.
On another level, the Azhar strongly denied what an independent Egyptian...
Date of source: Friday, June 25, 2004
The Tunisian writer Al-Taher Labib is the manager of the Arab Institution for Translation that has been working actively in Beirut since three years. “It is not an exaggeration if I said that only ten percent of the books translated from Arabic can be accredited. Most of the translations cannot be...
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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.