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Date of source: Sunday, November 1, 2015
Egypt's workers played a major role in the surge of protests that swept across the country in the 2000s, leading to the undermining and eventual fall of the regime of Husni Mubārak in 2011. Despite subsequent regime crackdowns on domestic dissent, the independent labor movement continued its...
Date of source: Thursday, October 1, 2015
President `Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisi announced a global initiative to invest in youth and discourage them from terrorism and extremism at the 70th United Nations General Assembly meeting on Monday evening.
Date of source: Sunday, September 20, 2015
During his talk show aired on Sadda al-Balad TV Channel, program presenter Ahmad Mūsa warned the parliamentary electoral candidates of using religion in their campaigns, noting that some candidates have resorted to bribe voters who are in need of medical treatment, in order to win parliamentary...
Date of source: Sunday, November 22, 2015
Dr. Su’ād Sāleh, professor of Islamic Comparative Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) at the women college for Islamic studies at Al-Azhar University, accused Dr. Hassan al-Janaynī the Al-Azhar scholar of attributing a 'weak' hadith (saying) to Prophet Muhammad. According to Dr. Sāleh, the hadith in the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 7, 2016
The fight against IS must also be fought in ideological terms. Egyptian Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Salah, who speaks the language of Salafi Muslims, is eager to play a role in this effort. This is the background of my contribution to the Op Ed page in Trouw.
Date of source: Thursday, April 2, 2015
Doctor Ahmad Tayyib, the Sheikh of al-Azhar, decided to expel a number of teachers in al-Azhar because they purportedly belonged to Muslim Brotherhood. A press release published by al-Azhar asserted that the teachers were ideologically affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Date of source: Wednesday, April 1, 2015
On Sunday, a criminal court in Cairo is overseeing the trial of 494 people accused in the al-Fatah Mosque incident that occurred after the breakup of the Rābaʿa Square sit-in in 2013. Prosecutor General, Hishām Barakāt, decided to transfer the accused to a criminal court because the crimes that...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Egyptian security forces have been intensifying their targeting of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and their sympathizers. Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers are suspected of mounting assaults on policemen and police installations as the government has recently arrested 82 people suspected of belonging to...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Oxford university professor Ṭāriq Ramadān was interviewed by DW to discuss raising Islamic radicalism and contemporary problems of Muslims in Europe. Ramadān thinks that the problem is in Muslims themselves and the way they market their religion and leave it for radicals to hijack and claim for...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Businessman Najīb Sawīris says that his family will invest more than 5.2 Billion Egyptian pounds inside Egypt. When asked about his disagreement with the Islamists, Najīb said “I disagree with political Islamic groups, but I am more Muslim than the Muslim Brotherhoods themselves”. Sawīris added “...
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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.