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Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 2004
Now the whole world is talking about reform, the Muslim Brotherhood does not want to miss the boat and has immediately released reform initiatives. Their initiative is very rational and polite; they spoke of citizenship and the honor of voting in elections. But is this vision compatible with the...
Date of source: Monday, August 9, 2004
The Muslim Brotherhood never forgets its aim, which is to take hold of power in Egypt. They are not frank enough to admit it. After a period of silence, they have again started a dialogue with opposition parties. The outcome of the past months did not smell of anything positive as the mutual...
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 2004
The strong disagreements that broke out between Al-Tagammu [left wing] Party and the Muslim Brotherhood were due to the personal opinions of Dr. Rifa’at Al-Said who is against the Muslim Brotherhood and political Islam.
Al-Said said that the fact that Al-Tagammu agreed to meet with the Muslim...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Britain has become a safe harbor and a hotbed of terrorists, from Abu Hamza Al-Masry and Yasser Al-Serri, a suspect in the Luxor massacre, to Abu Bakr Muhammad, the founder of the Group of Fundamentalists. [what was the name in Arabic? If the Arabic name is the original name of the group it should...
Date of source: Monday, August 2, 2004
Three Muslim scholars issued a strange fatwa that was published in Al-Haqiqa [the Truth] newspaper. The three scholars object to the appointment of Dr. Youssef Boutros Ghali as Minister of Finance because, according to them, a non-Muslim must not preside over the Bayt Al-Mal [public treasury] of...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 28, 2004
In the early days of the Brotherhood, Hassan Al-Banna looked at the political map in Egypt in the 1930s and decided to choose Ali Maher Pasha, who was a very ambitious character. Al-Banna forged a relationship with Maher to help him spread his [Al-Banna’s] group, the Muslim Brotherhood. Through...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 3, 2004
Brotherhood members for the first time will meet with members of the leftist party Al-Tagammu, and this will mark the first official meeting between members of both parties. This came as part of the discussion among the opposition to push in the direction of political and constitutional reform in...
Date of source: Monday, August 2, 2004
In a move that has caused much speculation, the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Mahdi Akef described Amr Moussa, the secretary general of the Arab league as a “man who swims against the current.”
Observers saw Akef’s statement as an attempt to widen the circle of movement for the...
Date of source: Saturday, July 24, 2004
Over time, a new genre of preachers has appeared--those who specialize in social and family counseling, which is a well-known profession in American society. But those who practice it in Egypt have given it an Islamic shade, and thus, they have played an important role in attracting thousands of...
Date of source: Monday, July 19, 2004
Religious obsession is sweeping through Egyptians’ minds. Muslims are obsessed with having full control while Christians are obsessed with withdrawing from social activities to look for the traits and strengths of closed communities.
Such a tense atmosphere serves as a rich soil for the growth of...
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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.