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Despite President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s significant strides in pursuing reconciliation with Islamist opponents there has been a recent spate of terrorist attacks across Algeria after a relative lull. The GIA, Algeria’s most radical guerrilla faction, has dismissed a peace deal between the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is winning international support for his swift moves to end the North African nation’s civil strife, but big obstacles remain for Western investment beyond the oil and gas sector, experts say. Elected in April amid charges of vote fraud, Bouteflika has...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
[taken from Al-Hayat of August 4, 1999]
Until recently, the official word was that Morocco was immune to Islamic fundamentalism, a phenomena which is prevalent in other North African countries. A statement made by the late Moroccan king asserting that women and cultured people comprise a bulwark...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Although the authorities frown upon the practice, exorcists, clairvoyants and sorcerers are enjoying a growing business in a poor country [Egypt] where the wealth gap is widening, sociologists say.
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 1999 to Wednesday, August 11, 1999
Outraged Lebanese students held a sit-in in Beirut on July 20 to protest Egypt’s banning of the classic book "The Prophet" by the late Lebanese-American author Gibran Khalil Gibran. One week later, AFP reported (erroneously according to the Office of the Censor) that information Minister Safwat...
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 1999 to Wednesday, August 11, 1999
Disputes over oil, Islam and Kurds are fueling tension between Iran and Turkey, although neither side appears to have an interest in pushing the rivalry too far.
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 1999 to Wednesday, August 11, 1999
Declaring oneself a prophet is not allowed in a Muslim country. Ali Said Mohammed was detained. Muhammad was the second "false prophet" arrested in Egypt in less than one year.
In April 1998, Egyptian authorities detained Bahaa Eddin Ahmed and 29 suspected members his cult.
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
Pro-reform Iranian newspaper editors on July 26 condemned the guilty verdict of a clerical court against the editor-in-chief of the leading daily Salam for publishing a "secret" letter from hardline Revolutionary Guards commanders demanding that moderate President Mohammad Khatami crack down...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
[in Al-Ahram, July 21, 1999]
The author, who is Chairman of the General Council in the Ministry of Insurance and Social Affairs, writes in answer to criticism in Egypt and suggests that "The new NGO law is an honor to every Egyptian."
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
"Power to Change" was the theme of the World YWCA’s 29th council in Cairo. Throughout the conference, Egypt was acknowledged as an excellent example of co-operation between Muslims and Christians by encouraging to work together in all fields of voluntary work.
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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.