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Date of source: Wednesday, October 1, 1997
Subtitles:- I never play with my words or dress them up, I just take care of everything.- America feels easy at heart with some Islamic tendencies. It even defends their interests.- The security system will not stand still towards violence.- I am not an Islamic writer, but a Muslim writer.- Wearing...
Date of source: Sunday, September 28, 1997
At the Azhar,
English woman Jane Wilman, the wife
of an Alexandrian businessman, Dr. Ali Elba, has declared that she has
embraced Islam and taken the new name Eisha
Mohammed Elba. This conversion was applauded in the national
newspaper, al-Ahram, but Youssuf Sedhum wonders
why conversions to...
Date of source: Thursday, August 28, 1997
President Housni Moubarak gave a comprehensive political speech to Al-Ahram newspaper last week. This speech dealt with the president’s viewpoints concerning the most important internal and external issues and was clear and self- evident. Yet the problems of the Copts, and their aspirations for the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 27, 1997
Father Athanasios Asak Henen; pastor of the Orthodox
church in Greece answers an article
of Mr. Fahmy Huweidy in el-Ahram in which he asked for the voice of the
church against the American
Copts’ claims that Copts in Egypt are subjected to persecution. The priest writes that
social problems,...
Date of source: Sunday, July 20, 1997
Ibrahim Sabri writes in Watani, July 20 1997 that ancient pharaonic
and Coptic art exposed at an
exhibition in Switzerland was not taken out of Egypt in the 17th and 18th centuries,
but was stolen at the
beginning of the 20th century. The most important artefacts are described.
Date of source: Sunday, July 20, 1997
Yousef Sidhom, editor-in-chief of Watani, responds to an article of Islamist author Fahmy Huweidy in Al-Ahram newspaper demanding that the Coptic church denounce all extremist movements who tarnish the image of Egypt on the international stage by focusing on negative aspects of Egypt, including...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 9, 1997
Sheik el Sha’arawy attacked the sheik of the Azhar and the mufti of Egypt,
saying they were violating
basic principles of Islam. Sha’arawy said that God’s word in the Holy Qur’an
should be taken
literally and if the verses of the Holy Qur’an were clear, they did not need to be thought
over.The...
Date of source: Sunday, June 29, 1997
The repair of a church toilet at the Monastery of the Syrian prompted a mob to destroy the entire building
while the monk overseeing the work was at the police station. Watani complains that the official
press,
al-Ahram and al-Akhbar, present the event as if it was a minor incident, and that...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 17, 1997
The author is very upset about a Christian author writing in a very negative way about Islam. He advises Christians to refrain from writing about Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2006
The fifth anniversary of 9/11 was a strong reminder of the continued war declared by Islamism against the world, and especially the “infidel West.” This article approaches some of the many questions that that have been raised by the war.
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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.