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Date of source: Saturday, July 24, 2004
How can we ban the activities of the Brotherhood in Egypt at the same time that we
pamper them in Palestine and Jordan? The Brotherhood is the same whether in Palestine, Jordan,
Iraq, America or Saudi Arabia. They are all working under one authority based in Germany. Is it
not true that unifying...
Date of source: Friday, July 30, 2004
If you asked any Egyptian intellectual, regardless of
religious affiliation, whether Saad Eddin Ibrahim is entitled to advocate human rights,
constitutional change and the implementation of an all-inclusive program of political reform, the
answer would be “no.” This is because Saad Eddin Ibrahim...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s novel “Soqout Al-Imam” [The Fall of the Imam] has been banned. Many
intellectuals have launched a campaign against banning whether by religious or political
authorities. But some intellectuals refused to support Al-Sa’adawi’s novel because they claimed
that has little...
Date of source: Monday, August 2, 2004
A new Shiite community has been added to the Egyptian population. They number 20,000
or even 30,000 or 40,000 and most of the community members are of marriageable age and are
capable of marriage, having families, and enlarging the community. The Shiites are not only a
demographic segment but...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of the Azhar, stressed that Egyptians, Muslims and
Christian, are associated in a relationship of partnership in businesses and governmental
organizations. Dr. Tantawi made this statement during his reception of the American Commission on
Religious...
Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 2004
In the three reports issued by the Commission on Religious Freedom
about Egypt from 2000 to 2002, Egypt was placed in the third category. These reports noted an
improvement in the [Egyptian government’s] respect for religious freedoms. These reports were
basically focused on Copts. Reports...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 3, 2004
It seems that the US Commission on International Religious Freedom must have issued
its report on religious discrimination between Muslims and Copts in Egypt months before its
visit. The report claims that the Egyptian mass media is too lazy and not qualified enough to
cover the religious...
Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 2004
Lord
Cromer, the British High Commissioner during the British occupation of Egypt. wanted to deal
with Egyptians as different ethnic and religious groups and not as a united national community.
Cromer left Egypt and Egypt was librated from occupation but others did not learn the lesson and...
Date of source: Saturday, August 7, 2004
On June 19, 2004, Al-Ahram Al
-Arabi published an interview with Dr. Nawal. Sa’adawi [See AWR 2004 week 25, art. 6]. I disagree
with many of Dr. Sa’adawi’s views. Many of Dr. Sa’adawi’s writings conflicts with basic aspects
of religion.
Date of source: Monday, August 9, 2004
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal
Rights organized, last Thursday, a press conference in which it announced the release of a report
titled “Freedom of belief and Shiites’ issues in Egypt.” This report describes the crackdowns on
Shiites in Egypt from December 2003 till March 2004.The report...
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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.