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Date of source: Monday, July 5, 2004
On June 29-30, the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Developmental Studies held a conference to discuss reform in Egypt and the region. The conference was attended by members of the American and the Israeli embassies as well as representatives of USAID. During the conference, participants expressed their...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 2004
The posters of the Muslim Brotherhood are covering all the walls and doors of the faculty of medicine of the Qasr Al-Aini and the hospitals affiliated with Cairo University. This reveals that the banned Muslim Brotherhood and extremist religious activities have succeeded in penetrating into the...
Date of source: Friday, July 2, 2004
Dr. No’man Goma’a, head of the Wafd Party hosted the delegation of the banned Brotherhood at the party’s headquarter for 140 minutes. Information leaked about the meeting varied between: implying the possibility of a new alliance between the Wafd and the Brotherhood, similar to the alliance they...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 2004
A number of leading figures of the Wafd Party met with some members of the Guidance Bureau of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood at the Wafd’s headquarters. The meeting, which lasted for two hours, comes after the failure of the Brotherhood’s negotiation with the Tagammu Party and the Nasserist Party...
Date of source: Sunday, July 4, 2004
Last week, Watani International printed an interview with Dr. Aly Gomaa, Egypt’s mufti. Some of the questions directed to the Mufti concerned the comparison between the absolute freedom with which Muslims in Egypt build mosques, and the parallel restrictions imposed by law on the building of...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 2004
Arabs and Muslims are searching their history, and they are dealing with today’s events with a mentality dating to many centuries ago. The key problem we are suffering off, is that the world, through fast communications, turned into a small global village of different races and religions and common...
Date of source: Sunday, July 4, 2004
Millions of Arab and Muslim children are the product of the culture of extremism, hatred of the ‘other’ and imaginary superiority. This culture is created in thousands of schools and mosques through half-educated sheikhs and teachers. How can Arab and Muslims entrust the minds of their boys and...
Date of source: Monday, July 5, 2004
Two months ago, the Council of Governors at the Egyptian government issued a decision to stop building new Azharite Institutes, stop building civil mosques and demolish mosques built without license. This caused angry reactions among the Egyptian public. Eighteen deputies at the People’s Assembly,...
Date of source: Friday, July 2, 2004
The Moroccan researcher Al-Moqrai Al-Idrisi Abu Zeid, a member of the parliament affiliated to the Islamic opposition party of Al-Adala wa Al-Tanmiya [Justice and development], said that the time has come for extremist violence-involved Islamic movements to carry out an ideological revision of...
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 2004
For the first time in the history of Egypt, a Coptic thinker, Dr. Nabil Luqa Bebawi, has obtained a doctoral degree in Islamic Shari’a. The topic of his dissertation was “The rights and duties of non-Muslims in an Islamic state.” He said he chose this topic because Islam as revealed through the...
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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.