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Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 2004
American Authorities cancelled a one-year visa for work it had previously granted to the grandson of the founder of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Tareq Ramadan, who teaches Islam at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and the University of Freirburg [in Germany], was planning to work for one...
Date of source: Monday, August 30, 2004
On August 30, “Al Manar Al Gadeed” magazine published an article written by Aboud Al-Zomor about reform in Egypt. The article is particularly significant because Al-Zomor was a main participant in the assassination of [former president] Anwar Al-Sadat. Al-Zomor’s article differs from what the Gama’...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Sayyed Qutb’s book “Ma’leem fi Al-Tariq” [Milestones] is still the source of inspiration of Islamists around the world. The Muslim Brotherhood tried to deny any connection between itself and Qutb’s book, in spite of the fact that they would always refute any criticism directed to the book.
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Saad Eddin Ibrahim who advocates freedom and democracy hurries to file complaints at the General Prosecutor’s office against those who have a different opinion than his. Ibrahim filed a complaint at the General Prosecutor’s office against articles I wrote discussing his ideas and expressing...
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 2004
While human rights organizations and a number of [Egyptian] political representatives from different orientations refused to receive the leader of the Democrats of the American Congress, Tom Lantos, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, head of the Ibn Khaldoun Center, welcomed Lantos’ visit along with a delegation...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 2004
The literature and the slogans of the Brotherhood imply their hostility towards democracy. But today the highest Brotherhood juristic reference Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi announced a new interpretation that can be summed up in Al-Qaradawi’s words “democracy is the spirit of Islam.” Al-Qaradawi’s...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 2004
The possibility that the Muslim Brotherhood would strike an alliance with the Nasserist Party brings up the question of how the Brotherhood will be able to forget the persecution they faced during the rule of Abdel Nasser when they were imprisoned and tortured. The history of relations between the...
Date of source: Saturday, August 7, 2004
This factory employs 130 employers of whom eight have died of cancer and 46 are diagnosed with cancer or other work-related diseases like weakness of the heart muscle. These results were revealed in a report released by the Medical Insurance Authority.
The factory manufactures asbestos and is...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Sayyed Qutb and Muhammad Baqer Al-Sadr are two thinkers who lived similar lives. The former was executed in Egypt in 1966, and the latter was killed under the Saddam regime [in Iraq], and they both left an important mark on the path of contemporary history. Qutb belonged of the Muslim Brotherhood,...
Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 2004
It is well known that the West [the US and European countries] has recently proposed a project to reform Arab and Islamic countries because those countries supposedly do not apply the principles of democracy. We simply have to read our history and hold on to our religion - only then would we become...
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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.