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Recently, a lawsuit has been filed by Coptic priests and lawyers against Baheb al-Sima on the grounds that the film is demeaning to the Orthodox Christian faith. Justice Naguib Gebrail, former president of the Personal Status Court, said that a group of Egyptian businessmen and intellectuals would...
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In its recent book “Islam and the challenges of the 21st century,” the Gama?a Islāmīyah critiques the theory that confrontation should take place between Muslims and Christians, and East and the West. The Gama?a responded to those propagating this theory and asked Muslims not to consider any human...
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Baheb al-Sima triggered a debate on the Church’s role in supervising artistic material. While clergymen demanded that the Church be consulted on works relating to religion in any way, representatives of the Censorship Authorities rejected the role of religious institutions, whether they represent...
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Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi issued a Fatwá rendering films and television series with corrupted female characters are H...
Date of source: Monday, June 21, 2004
The problem facing Arab creative writers is how to reach non-Arab readers. The real problem lies both ways: translations from and to Arabic. The Arab World as a whole translates less than one book a year for all its population. At the same time, we barely hear about more than one or two books being...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
Religious freedom is a modern term that has occupied the minds of many scholars and intellectuals. What does religious freedom mean to the moderates, how do some try to deny that freedom, and could religion be forced onto someone? Dr. Youssef al-Qaradawi will answer these questions.
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In an unprecedented event in Egyptian cinema, Baheb al-Sima (I Love Cinema) portrays members of a Christian family as the protagonists in a film that deals with family relationships set in the 1960s. The film caused much controversy not only because it is the first film to show Christian as the...
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Signs of a new crisis have jumped to the front of the cultural arena in Egypt and have revived the scenario of confrontation between the Azhar institutions and liberal intellectuals. The most bizarre incident is the banning of Nawal Al-Sa'adawi's "Soqout Al-Imam" [The Fall of the Imam] that was...
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The new law that gives the authority of judicial seizure to the Azhar triggered much fear that it will promote the authority of the Azhar and threaten freedom of expression.
The Minister of Justice, Farouq Seif al-Nasr, said that the decision is not targeted at literary books, and such books would...
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The British police yesterday arrested Abū Hamza al-Masry, the leader of the group of Ans...
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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.