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Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2005
‘Amr Adīb, Jindī said during an interview with Orbit channel that if he had his own way and would stand in the shoes of some senior state official, he would ban nearly half of the songs of Umm Kulthoum [a late popular Egyptian singer] due to their “libertine” lyrics.
Date of source: Monday, April 28, 2003
Dr. Muhammad Abdel-Mita’i, the chairman of Businessmen Association in Assiut has sent a telegram to the American Embassy in Cairo congratulating the success of the American forces to control Iraq. It is known that the association receives American aid. It has received 160 million pounds last year....
Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2005
Cassette tapes urging jihād, bloodshed and relentlessness have been flooding the Egyptian market lately. They are produced in Saudi Arabia and exported to us via Egyptians coming home from hajj or cumra [lesser pilgrimage].
The objective pursued by these tapes was to give the impression that “we...
Date of source: Monday, May 2, 2005
Some 260 Christians left Cairo on April 22, 2005 carried by El Al and EgyptAir’s Air Sinai flights for Israel. Air Sinai has flown the Orthodox Copts while the Israeli carrier El Al flew 37 Catholic Copts.
Date of source: Monday, May 2, 2005
A previous article tackled the issue of sectarian rifts. It highlighted the fact that it has been a losing battle. But their producers never give in, though they know their product is not selling.
Date of source: Monday, March 3, 2003
The US-British forces seek the support of Pope John Paul II in their war against Iraq, in order to give it a religious dimension. The two countries exert similar efforts on the Sheikh of the Azhar to convince the Arab World through him that power should be used to save the world from Iraqi weapons...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Arab Gulf countries have linked Egyptians’ work in their countries with specific hard line religious trends and sects. These Arabs have enforced on us Wahhabi thoughts and their Bedouin, tribal, customs. They have imposed on us monaqaba [veiled including a cover of the face] women, myths,...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Muhammad Al-Zawahry, Ayman Al-Zawahry’s middle brother who is now held in an Egyptian prison, is going through revisions that are similar to those carried out by the Gama’a al-Islamiya at the start of 2002 . Sources close to Muhammad reported that Muhammad has been changing his understanding of the...
Date of source: Monday, March 8, 2004
Only nine days after their marriage, the monaqaba woman and the famous TV preacher, who allegedly had seduced her, were divorced.
Date of source: Monday, March 8, 2004
There are women who get into the women’s carriage of the underground and call upon unveiled women to wear the veil. The words of those women may involve insults to the unveiled women. They never take in consideration that some women on board, who are insulted, are Egyptian Christians. Furthermore...
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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.