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Date of source: Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Asharq Al-Awsat received news that Al-Wafd and the Brotherhood decided to form a joint committee to examine a number of issues of mutual interests to both. Sources from the Brotherhood and Al-Wafd denied the possibility of forming a parliamentary alliance between Al-Wafd and the Brotherhood.
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
An Egyptian judicial source revealed that the Egyptian security arrested last week 25 allegedly accused of belonging to the “Jihad” Movement. Another security source said that the detained are accused of plotting to assassinate political and media officials as well as bombing government buildings.
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
Asharq Al-Awsat met with a group of Western Arabists on the sidelines of the Translation Conference held lately at the Supreme Council of Culture in Egypt. They spoke about their experiences in translating literal works from Arabic into European languages and the reasons that let them choose...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 29, 2004
A large number of young translators presented translations of literary works from various languages into Arabic that attracted the attention of readers and specialists. These translations are not limited to the widely known languages like English and French, but they also include some translations...
Date of source: Saturday, June 26, 2004
Each faithful and rational Muslim has to question the intentions of who behead hostages [in Iraq] do. The aim of these actions is distorting the image of Arabs and Muslims. For me this is tarnishing the image of Islam, which is the spiritual source for Islamic presence in this world.
At the same...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 2004
Dr. Ahmed Bassam Sa’I, a Syrian scholar and the head of Oxford Academy for Higher Education applied a new approach in interpreting the Holy Qur’an that reveals its miraculous nature. Asharq Al-Awsat met with Dr. Sa’i during his visit to Cairo. AWR presents some of the questions Asharq Al-Awsat...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 2004
The American University in Cairo put a condition on its application that prospective female students should not wear the niqab or the face cover. Deputies in the Egyptian parliament, including the Muslim Brotherhood deputies, submitted a request of information to Dr. Moufid Shihab, the minister of...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 2004
Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (IESCO) released a new book in Arabic titled “Al-Muslimun Al-Godod Al-Lazeen Dakhalu fi Deen Allah Afwagan” [New Muslims…who joined the Religion of God in flocks]. The book is authored by Imam Muhammad Imam, a journalist and a media man. The...
Date of source: Friday, July 2, 2004
A Russian newspaper wrote that 5% of the majority Muslim population of the Kyrgyzstan Republic converted to Christianity as a result of the missionary activities carried out by Christian organizations in former Soviet republics. The head of the Kyrgyzstani Committee for Religious Affairs Amrazak...
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 2004
The horrible terrorist actions carried out by terrorist murderers in Riyadh and Khubar in Saudi Arabia are crimes against Islam and Muslims in the first place, and humanity in general. These criminal actions that were carried out in the name of Islam can be truly described as ‘organized terrorism’...
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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.