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Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
The writer, a native of Al-Koshh village, responds to an article which suggested the village’s inhabitants were drunken, noisy arms dealers and gangsters. [The village of Al-Koshh in the governorate of Sohag in Upper Egypt hit international headlines last year when a British paper "The Sunday...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
The Discussion of Cultures Convention that was organized by the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services became a demonstration of love and tolerance between the Muslims and Christians in Egypt. The Islamic scholars together with the priests agreed that Egypt is now living a period of...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Mahmoud Sayed Gaballah, an Egyptian militant Islamist suspect confined in a
Toronto prison, spurned a Canadian court offer, made last Thursday, to be handed
over to a third country, fearing this could lead to his extradition to Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
"The West, its politicians and missionaries regard the Islamic world as one entity and, in dealing with Muslims, do not forget that they make up one social unit. But in the meantime, the West does not want us to feel united." Thus wrote Islamic scholar Tarek El-Bishri in the introduction to Ummati...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 1999 to Friday, June 25, 1999
A symposium was held in Rose El-Youssef discussing Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim and his Center. Dr Ibrahim responded to what he saw as misunderstandings held by the editors and journalists concerning his Center.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Our campaign against Ibn Khaldoun Center concerning its conspiracy against the system of education was exposed on the satellite channels. The "Orbit" satellite channel set a debate between the Islamic thinker, Dr. Abd Al-Azim Al-Mata’ni and Dr. Ahmed Sobhy Mansour, the writer of the new religious...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Ahmed Sobhi Mansour clarifying his relationship with a certain Rashaad Khalifa, a Muslim in the US who claims to be a prophet. He insists that he resisted him when he claimed to be a prophet and was able to return home from the US (he had been there at Rashaad’s invitation) only with the help of a...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 1999
In the recent speech made the dean of the Al-Azhar Islamic Theology Faculty, he called for a new Islamic jurisprudence, accusing the jurists of today of not thinking over the religious issues. This writer cautions that because the dean is a professor of philosophy he has no right to discuss the...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 1999
The theological Islamic scholars warn against the sudden movement of ijtihaad [independent judgment on religious issues] that might arouse civil strife among the Muslims and the scholars. Dr. Abd Al-Sabour Marzouq, the secretary general of the Council of Islamic Affairs, says that the one who...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 1999
The International Islamic Conference began today under the supervision of President Hosni Mubarak. In the opening session of the conference, President Mubarak confirmed the importance of the unity of the Islamic world. 75 countries are participating in this conference in addition to 188...
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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.