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Date of source: Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Egyptian newspapers gave considerable space to news about the rather sudden death of Counselor Ma?moun al-Hudaiby, the Supreme Guide of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, on 9 January 2004. al-Hudaiby, 83, who was named Supreme Guide of the Brotherhood on 27 November 2002, had always refused to...
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Egyptian newspapers gave considerable space to the issue of the expected banning of the Islamic veil in France. Discussions of the issue reached their peak last Wednesday, December 17, when President Jacques Chirac called for a new law banning the wearing of head scarves for Muslim girls, of...
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On the occasion of Christmas, His Beatitude Cardinal
Stephanos II, Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt, wrote an article that was published in both al-Ahram
and al-Akhbar on "The Christmas of Love." Dr. Laila Takla and Zein al-Abeedin al-Rekabi wrote in al-Ahram and Asharq
Al-Awsat...
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More than twenty-five articles in the Arabic newspapers are dedicated to the issue of eliminating religious signs in French schools and its relationship to secularism. President Jacques Chirac?s speech on this issue has provoked contradictory reactions, not only inside the French community,...
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British authorities deposed Egyptian fundamentalist Abū Hamza al-Masri from being the Imām of Finsbury Park
Mosque because he used his position to give political statements. The ?Sun? paper reported the news of his deposition
and asked its readers to call him on his cellular phone and ask him to...
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Scotland Yard raided the mosque where Egyptian fundamentalist Abū Hamza al-Masri preaches, after
receiving information from the French intelligence service about it. British officials stressed that such measures are
not against Islām. al-Masri led the Friday prayers in the street for two...
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Editor-in-chief of Sout al-Ummah has written a two-part article on monotheism. Some of the points he raised are
understood to be directed against the Christian faith in the Holy Trinity and reincarnation. The priest of the Hanging
Church responds to his articles and a Coptic attorney has...
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The Criminal Court
of Sohag ruled in the case of al-Kosheh riots. Only two defendants out of 96 are convicted but not for killing. The
Egyptian Church declared rejection of the ruling and al-Kalema Center for Human Rights issued a statement expressing
disappointment at the ruling and asking for...
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One of the issues that surfaced after September 11 is the issue of "religious discourse" and its importance in showing that Islam is not a religion of violence and terrorism. Articles covered in this press review show what kind of religious discourse is needed today and whether there are Western...
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A meeting was held in the Swiss Club between the Muslim Brotherhood and European diplomats under the supervision of Saad Eddin Ibrahim, head of the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Developmental Studies. Some papers report that this meeting is one of the reasons behind the latest campaign of the government...
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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.