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Date of source: Saturday, December 31, 2011
On the eve of December 31, 2010, a blast targeted the Two Saints Church in Alexandria, killing 24 Egyptians and wounding more than 90 others. In a year’s time, the facade of the church was restored and the remains of bodies were removed off the walls of the Sharq al-Madīnah mosque on the other side...
Date of source: Monday, March 9, 2015
Egypt's Grand Mufti, Dr. Shawqi `Allām stated that many organizations and groupings have intentionally misinterpreted the relationship between religion and politics in order to serve their own political interests and agendas. According to `Allām, it is important to explain this relationship from...
Date of source: Sunday, April 12, 2015
On Sunday, the Egyptian Foreign Office censored unacceptable interference in Egyptian judicial affairs after the Turkish Foreign Office issued a statement on Saturday condemning the decision of the Egyptian court to execute 14 people, including the general leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammad...
Date of source: Sunday, April 12, 2015
14 men sentenced to execution and 37 others to imprisonment, accused of being linked to the Muslim brotherhood organisation which is believed to ‘have political motives’. This decision has been deemed to be ‘totally unfair’ by the human rights watch who oversee affairs in the Middle East and North...
Shirīn Barūdī: Women have their own minds…choosing to wear the hijab is at their personal discretion
Date of source: Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Shirīn Barūdī: Women have their own minds…choosing to wear the hijab is at their personal discretion
Artist Shirīn Barūdī has said that journalist Sharīf El-Shobashī’s call to remove the headscarf, against which people are planning to protest in Tahrir Square on the 1st May, removes any kind of...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Al-Jamal: Calling women to remove the hijab is ‘an insult to them’
Dr. al-Jamal, Imam and preacher at Sayyida Zaynab Mosque, has stated that removing the hijab means distancing oneself from Islam. Al-Jamal said that calling women and young girls to remove the hijab is an insult to those whom Islam...
Date of source: Thursday, April 9, 2015
Burhāmī: “Forbidding circumcision is against the law and the judges’ atonement is not authentic”
Shaykh Yāsir Burhāmī, Vice President of the Salafist Call, said that the Personal Status laws in Egypt are derived from Islamic Sharīʿa rulings, and that saying otherwise represents an unfounded claim...
Date of source: Friday, April 10, 2015
The Minister of Endowments warns against mistakes and sins in the religious discourse
The Minister of Endowments warns against that religious discourse which turns from objective to subjective, and degrades to mere insults. In a statement on Friday he stated that it is necessary to differentiate...
Date of source: Sunday, June 28, 2015
Fatwah: Islamic Law prohibits the affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood
The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Prof. Mohammad Shouqī ʿUlām, clarified that the affiliation and association with the Muslim Brotherhood is prohibited by Islamic Law because the Islamic religion forbids joining groups like this one...
Date of source: Monday, June 29, 2015
Resumption of the trial of Mursī and ten others charged of espionage with Qatar
Cairo Criminal Court is carrying out the trial of former President Mursī along with ten other individuals from the Muslim Brotherhood cadres, accused of espionage with Qatar. The trial is headed by Judge Muhammad Shīrīn...
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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.