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Date of source: Tuesday, December 5, 2006
The Egyptian press has widely covered the four-day visit that Pope Benedict XVI paid to Turkey from November 28 to December 1, 2006 in an obvious attempt to heal the wounds opened by his earlier "offensive" remarks on Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. According to political analysts, the pontiff’s...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 6, 2001
Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi and the Muftī of Egypt asked Bin Laden to hand
himself over to save the Afghans from
the American war. al-Qaradawi said that Muslim and Christian
religious leaders could play an important role in
limiting the possibility of a conflict between Muslims
and Christians...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 6, 2001
The Islamic Research Institute issued a
statement declaring
its rejection of associating Islām with terrorism and explaining the true meaning of Jihād in
Islam. The
Brotherhood member Dr. Essam al-Erian said that the definition the Azhar gave of Jihād went along with
the
Brotherhood’s...
Date of source:
In an attempt to put an end to the growing
attacks against Arabs and Muslims
in America, the American Senate agreed on a new law condemning attacks
against American Arabs and Muslims. The law
states that the civil rights of all Americans, including Arab
and Muslim Americans, should be...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 11, 2001
The court’s decision that cancelled the
celebration of the mulid of Abū Hasera, and annulled a decree from the
Minister of Culture, which
considered the tomb of Abū Hasera to be one of the Egyptian Coptic and Islamic monuments
may be appealed
against by legal experts from the Supreme Council...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 2, 2001
The issue of celebrating the mulid of Abū Hasera aroused the anger of the inhabitants
of Demtawa, where his tomb
is located. There are many conflicting stories about the reality of his
character. Some stories say that he was one
of the prophets that were sent to the Israelites in Egypt and...
Date of source: Sunday, November 19, 2006
The review deals with Minister of Culture Fārūq Husnī’s latest
remarks in which he termed the H...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 2, 2001
Hani Labeeb
wrote to al-Usboa criticizing the reaction of some Coptic religious men towards the serial "Awan al-
Ward,"
as being extremist. Two articles in al-Ahram praised the series, confirming that there is love between
Muslims and Christians. The writer of the serial told al-Raya al-Masri...
Date of source:
The Egyptian press writes Muslims and
Christians accused in the case of al-Kosheh village
congratulated each other when they were released. The Coptic Orthodox
Archbishop of Sohag stated that what
happened last year has nothing to do with either Islām or Christianity. The Governor of
Sohag...
Date of source: Sunday, November 5, 2000
The Supreme
Constitutional Court decided to abolish the decree of the Minister of
Interior which made it necessary for
the husband to agree to his wife traveling abroad as a prerequisite to issue her a
passport. In addition,
it canceled the Presidential decree which entitled the Minister of...
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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.