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Date of source: Saturday, October 12, 2002 to Friday, October 18, 2002
President Bush supports a project to prohibit mixing of sexes in American schools. Some people wonder how that could happen in America. Members of Bush´ administration hold dogmatic and retrospective ideas. They call for the preservation of traditions. Bush´s support for the segregation...
Date of source: Saturday, October 12, 2002 to Friday, October 18, 2002
The tradition of the niqab has become widespread in Egypt, especially in poor quarters. The niqab is an inherited tradition and not a pillar of the Islamic faith. It was transmitted to Egypt from some Islamic and Arabic countries that live by the traditions of nomadic life and not by the orders of...
Date of source: Saturday, October 5, 2002 to Friday, October 11, 2002
Some British Islamic groups allowed shedding the blood of a Jewish-American author because he offended Christianity and insulted Jesus Christ in a play that he wrote. They claim that the content of the play is also offensive to Islam because Islam does not differentiate between the three revealed...
Date of source: Saturday, September 28, 2002 to Friday, October 4, 2002
Excommunication is the capital punishment that can be handed down to a clergyman, if he committed an irrecoverable mistake. A priest said that there is no written ecclesiastical law for excommunication, which means that it is a punishment that is left to the judgment of the bishops.
Date of source: Saturday, September 28, 2002 to Friday, October 4, 2002
.The statement approved by the Azhar Permanent Committee for Dialogue and by the Anglican Church raised many questions concerning the correction of some information that is being taught about each religion. Sheikh El-Zafzaf said that this change of curricula started when an Azhar scholar found some...
Date of source: Saturday, September 28, 2002 to Friday, October 4, 2002
Youssef Nada is said to have been behind the assassination of the Egyptian commercial counsel to Geneva six years ago. The commercial counsel went to Geneva to investigate the death of a Brotherhood leader who was said to have taken a huge amount of money from the Brotherhood to put into the Swiss...
Date of source: Saturday, September 21, 2002 to Friday, September 27, 2002
The French magazine Jeune Afrique published an article reporting that Ayman Al-Zawahry is the mastermind of Al-Qa´ida. The article recounts the story of his arrest in the republic of Daghastan five years ago when it was under Russian control.
Date of source: Saturday, September 21, 2002 to Friday, September 27, 2002
A former Orthodox priest, who was defrocked and excommunicated because he used to practice magic and claimed having the ability to heal people possessed by evil spirits and to marry spinsters, was murdered. His killer said that the priest ruined his life and was not able to rid him of the evil...
Date of source: Saturday, September 21, 2002 to Friday, September 27, 2002
The French writer Michel Houellebecq, currently being tried on the charge of defaming and disdaining Islam, has been released. The court´s verdict is due October 22. Attacking Islam has become one of the means of gaining fame and collecting money. Those who attack Islam have no idea about the...
Date of source: Saturday, September 21, 2002 to Friday, September 27, 2002
The former guard of the Bar Association said that the Muslim Brotherhood, members in the association, wasted the association´s money by organizing a summer camp near the northern coast of Egypt. The idea of the summer camp was to recruit into the Brotherhood young lawyers who are affiliated with...
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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.