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Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Pope John Paul II will make a "pilgrimage" in Iraq at the beginning of December and will meet President Saddam Hussein, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Raphael Bidawid said on August 27. "The dates have not yet been fixed but the visit will take place between December 2 and 5," the Baghdad-based...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
In Egypt, setting up a political organization can be quite an unpleasant experience, especially if one boasts controversial religious credentials. Nevertheless, some former members of the militant Jihad, the group blamed for a series of murders in the 1980s and 1990s including the assassination of...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Egyptian security forces arrested and detained three suspected members of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement on August 28, bringing the total number of suspected brothers rounded up in raids across the country in August alone, to nearly 30.
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 1999 to Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Islamist extremists killed four people on the first day of campaigning in Algeria for a peace referendum scheduled for September 16 by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the press said August 28.
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 1999 to Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Nine members of an Islamic extremist group from Algeria held responsible for a massacre of 29 people this month have been arrested by Moroccan military security forces, a reliable source told AFP on August 25. The Moroccan authorities denied the report on the next day.
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 1999 to Wednesday, September 8, 1999
Egypt’s top diplomat in Iran said Tehran’s decision to name a street after the assassin of president Anwar Sadat was one of the chief obstacles to restoring full diplomatic ties with the country, Iranian papers said on August 25.
Date of source: Monday, September 3, 2012
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that anyone questioning basic Islamic principles could face execution.
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
The Saudis seem bent on fostering the growing Saudi political hegemony over the Arabs and use both their media and political pressure to further their interests. Saudi Arabia, like any other Arab political regime, is interested in maintaining strict control over its image. A report of Reporters...
Date of source: Friday, August 20, 1999 to Thursday, August 26, 1999
The Financial Times put the Saudi billion dollar rush to conquer the Arabic media market in a negative light. The Kingdom cannot be criticized and the image of Islam needs to be improved but Saudi-owned media have striven to achieve Western journalistic standards. The technological level of the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Some 200 Egyptian journalists staged a sit-in at the headquarters of their syndicate on August 21, to protest the imprisonment of three of their colleagues and call for the abrogation of laws they said stifle press freedom and inhibit free speech.
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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.