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Date of source: Tuesday, August 17, 1999
An article in Al-Arabi newspaper under the title "Islam is innocent in relation to the punishment for apostasy" claimed that the Prophet did not kill the apostates and that the punishment for apostasy was invented by the jurists. I can present to you many verses which prove that the apostates were...
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 1999 to Saturday, August 21, 1999
In response to a spate of articles in the British media alleging that censorship has banned more than 90 books in Egypt, Minister of Information Safwat El-Sherif has dismissed such reports as "sheer fabrication with no basis of truth." British media charged that this included the book " The Prophet...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 11, 1999
An American official stated a report is in preparation about the state of the religious freedoms all over the world.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 7, 2012
When hardline Sheikh Abdel Sabur Sahin was fighting a fierce battle to declare professor Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid a renegade and separate him from his wife, judge Gabr Ibrahim Gabr of Cairo Court was fighting a similar battle by banning Youssef Chahine’s controversial film "The Immigrant". Shahin and...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
Pro-reform Iranian newspaper editors on July 26 condemned the guilty verdict of a clerical court against the editor-in-chief of the leading daily Salam for publishing a "secret" letter from hardline Revolutionary Guards commanders demanding that moderate President Mohammad Khatami crack down...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
Infringement on personal freedom or sound educational policy? The ban on wearing the niqab, or full face-veil, in schools has stirred intense controversy and a lengthy legal battle ever since it was issued by Minister of Education Hussein Kamel Bahaaeddin in 1994. The legal wrangle came to an end...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
The High Administrative Court has decided to ban students from entering schools while wearing a niqab (full-face veil).
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999 to Wednesday, July 28, 1999
The Zionist lobby’s most recent smear campaign against Arab Americans may have succeeded in denying Salam Al-Marayati his nomination to a US House of Representative’s Terrorism Commission, but it has also inspired a long-awaited public outcry against the Zionist lobby itself.
Date of source: Sunday, July 18, 1999
The court sentenced a journalist in Al-Ahrar and the ex-general secretary of Al-Azhar Scholars Front to pay a penalty of ten thousand pounds to the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi.
Date of source: Monday, July 12, 1999
An unknown Jew recently wrote a letter to The Jerusalem Post abusing European heads of states with the typical distorted view of history. The letter carried the headline "An Open Letter to the American President - We will take revenge upon Killer Arabs" was signed by one Hana Gore.
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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.