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Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
The sweeping of Kuwait’s parliamentary polls on July 3 might bode well for women’s suffrage, but it also raises the prospects of a new showdown between MPs and the emir’s government. Opposition candidates won a two-thirds majority in the poll, giving the liberals and Islamists the power to block...
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
Cairo governorate this week celebrated the passage of 1,400 years of Islam in Egypt. The celebration was held in Amr Ibn Al As mosque amidst 10,000 worshippers participating in the ceremony. The district the mosque sits is one of the most ancient in the Islamic world. It witnessed the Islamic...
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
The dispute over the new Associations Law has drawn lots of attention and while it was approved by a parliament majority, the majority of the Egyptian public disapproved of it. This is not merely an impression but an observation gleaned from empirical evidence in Egyptian public life.
Date of source: Sunday, July 4, 1999
In an advance text of the [Roman Catholic] Pope’s remarks handed out to reporters, the Pope mentioned areas in Iraq, Egypt, and cities in the Holy Land ruled by Israel and the Palestinian Authority as places he would like to visit.
Date of source: Sunday, July 4, 1999
Exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden and his followers, blamed by the United States for 1998 embassy bombings in Africa, have set up operations at a new base in Afghanistan, the Observer newspaper said on Sunday [July 4?, 1999]. It said bin Laden’s new hideout was in hills a few miles south of...
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
[This article appeared in Al-Ahram, June 16, 1999] The Egyptian press has for years revealed the corruption taking place in universities and criticized officials for not taking a positive action towards this dangerous phenomenon. The corruption is not limited to students but has spread to include...
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Hardline militants of Algeria’s Armed Islamic Group (GIA) threatened on June 27 to create a "bloodbath" in Belgium if the authorities there do not release several of its leaders jailed last month.
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Algeria’s new President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has just announced plans to pardon thousands of pro-Islamist prisoners, looks determined to restore peace in order to tackle major social issues. In under three months, Bouteflika has already obtained the "surrender" of the Islamic Salvation Army (...
Date of source: Sunday, July 4, 1999
Counting of votes which could herald a new era of women’s rights in Kuwait went into the early hours of Sunday [July 4, 1999] with first returns showing a tight race between opponents and supporters of proposed full female emancipation. A key issue in the Gulf nation’s parliamentary election held...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 1999
While violent deaths from the military confrontations between the government and militants has declined precipitously in 1998, while torture and appalling prison conditions are still widespread in Egypt, said the new Amnesty International Report on Egypt.
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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.