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Date of source: Friday, February 15, 2008
The article shows the reasons and repercussions to the recent republication of one of the 12 blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in many Danish and European newspapers just one day after Danish police declared that it foiled a plot to murder the cartoonist.
Date of source: Sunday, February 17, 2008
The controversial statements of the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams sparked contradictory reactions. While Western and Christian observers attacked him, Muslim thinkers and intellectuals hailed him as a wise just clergyman. The Egyptian media reacted more to the angry reactions than to the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 7, 2008
Although the Azhar has refused to acknowledge the Bahā’ī faith in Egypt, a recent court verdict has allowed Bahā’īs to put a ‘dash’ in the religion data box of identity cards.
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2008
The Administrative Court has rejected a lawsuit that was filed by the Muslim convert to Christianity, Muhammad Hijāzī and has allowed Bahā’ī’s to leave the religion field empty or write "other" on their identity cards. The Egyptian press reported the two rulings and commented on the increasing...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 30, 2008
‘Abd Allāh Mustafá reports on Belgian local authorities banning official employees from wearing the hijāb or any other religious symbols.
Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2008
The author believes that al-Sādāt supported Islamic political groups to ensure that they would stand by him in his brave action of making peace with Israel in the 1970s. Since then, the religious extremist trend has overwhelmed Egypt’s cultural, political, and social realms.
Date of source: Sunday, February 10, 2008
Furious reactions to Rowan Williams’ remarks about the inclusion of Islamic Sharī‘ah in the British legal system were detected from various spectrums in British society.
Date of source: Thursday, January 3, 2008
The author, Dr. Muhammad Hilmī ‘Abd al-Wahhāb, reports on the statements of participants of a seminar organized by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies on the introspections of the Jihād Group.
Date of source: Monday, December 17, 2007
Two sectarian incidents took place in the city of Isnā in the governorate of Qena, causing significant damage to Copts’ properties. Copts refused to accept the ’usual’ reconciliation meetings with Muslims, instead demanding compensation for the damages.
Date of source: Saturday, December 15, 2007
In a surprise decision the Supreme Military Court has dropped charges of terrorism and money-laundering against 40 key leaders of the illegal Muslim Brotherhood, while it maintained the charge of joining a group that has been founded illegally.
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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.