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Date of source: Saturday, November 29, 2003 to Friday, December 5, 2003
There is no fashion that produces the amount of controversy, violence and hysteria world-wide that the wearing of the veil by Muslim women does. Iranian women flee overseas in order to take the chador off. In Turkey, the veiled wives of government and party officials are not allowed to attend...
Date of source: Saturday, November 29, 2003 to Friday, December 5, 2003
A veiled TV broadcaster claimed that the head of Egyptian TV insulted and hit her because she wears the veil. The head of TV denied such claims and said that the broadcaster stirs up her veiled colleagues and harasses the rest. The head of Radio and Television Union made it clear that a broadcaster...
Date of source: Saturday, November 29, 2003 to Friday, December 5, 2003
Arab historian, novelist and journalist Gorgy Zeidan [and founder of Dar al-Hilal] is regarded as one of the pioneers of the enlightenment movement, which became widespread in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. In spite of the fact that Zeidan was a Christian, his works,...
Date of source: Saturday, November 29, 2003 to Friday, December 5, 2003
The article sheds light upon the Islamic fiqh-based concept “yad al-amana wa yad al-daman” [the obligation for honesty and the obligation for guarantee]. The contemporary application of this concept in the area of dealings in general and economic dealings in particular, especially those related to...
Date of source: Saturday, November 29, 2003 to Friday, December 5, 2003
The slogan which the takfīr-based groups were raising is “Kill and you will be rewarded…kill an unbeliever and you will go to paradise.” At one point, the kufār [infidels] were said to be the country's leaders and senior officials, another time they were the police officers and soldiers, tourists...
Date of source: Saturday, November 29, 2003 to Friday, December 5, 2003
The author believes that the latest bloody and hideous bombings in Riyadh have some positive aspects. Sheikhs specialized in “terrorism fatwas” renounced their “devilish” opinions that have led to bloody massacres perpetrated by terrorists who claimed to lift the banner of Jihad. Among the most...
Date of source: Saturday, November 22, 2003
Wearing the hijab [the veil covering a woman´s hair] has become an adventure, and sometimes it is a crime, due to racism and discrimination against Muslims in the West. This is the result of the experience of the journalist Caroline Fontine of Paris Match magazine. She wore the hijab for three...
Date of source: Saturday, November 15, 2003 to Friday, November 21, 2003
The article is a letter responding to an article published in Rose Al-Youssef under the title “The writer of the taboo Gospel.” In his letter, Father Abdel Masih argues that the article of Rose El-Youssef is biased and unfair, as it gives the impression that the Gospel of Barnabas, which...
Date of source: Saturday, November 8, 2003 to Friday, November 14, 2003
The article gives a brief description of St. Barnabas, describing him as one of the disciples of Jesus Christ who preached the gospel during the second quarter of the first century A.D. It attributed the so-called “The Gospel of Barnabas” to him and comments with details on the book and the...
Date of source: Saturday, November 1, 2003 to Friday, November 7, 2003
The author covers and comments on the conflict between moderate and extremist students at Helwan University in the light of a recent confrontation between extremist students and security men in campus. She believes that moderate students are strongly against the extremist ideas of the students who...
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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.