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Date of source: Tuesday, June 20, 2006
A draft law to combat
rumors in Egypt is
currently under study by the People’s Assembly. The Journalists’ Syndicate announced its strong
opposition
to the draft law, describing it as a threat to freedom of opinion and expression.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 14, 2006
The Egyptian parliament yesterday debated the movie, ‘The Da Vinci Code’ at the request of several Coptic members, who demanded a ban on both the movie and the book for being blasphemous to Jesus Christ. The Egyptian minister of culture, Dr. Fārouq Husnī, vowed to ban the movie and to pull the...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 20, 2006
A proposal to establish a department for Coptic antiquities causes wide controversy. Wala’ Zayn al- Dīn presents the different views of specialists and university professors.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 14, 2006
A recent workshop on the effect of religious truth on social harmony in Egypt and
Germany
was held in Lokkum, Germany. Sāmī Khashaba gives his point of view on the issue.
Date of source: Sunday, June 18, 2006
The presidential decree of December 2005 promised new freedoms in the area of building, restoring and repairing church buildings. However in reality these freedoms have failed to materialize. The author argues that the presidential decree only produced a cosmetic change and that the underlying...
Date of source: Friday, June 16, 2006
The author continues his series of
articles in Sawt
al-Azhar newspaper to reply to Archpriest Zakarīyā Butrus’s opinions
about Islam in his
appearances on the Christian TV channel al-Hayāt.
Date of source: Sunday, June 18, 2006
Lawyer of Islamic groups, Muntasir al-Zayyāt, who defends
Hasan Mustafa Usāma Nasr, otherwise known
as Abu ‘Umar al-Misrī, has recently revealed
that al-Misrī is planning to sue the former
Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, for being involved in
his abduction and deportation to Egypt...
Date of source: Friday, June 16, 2006
‘Amr Khālid, the
social reformer as he prefers to call himself, is a new
product of the interaction between Islamization,
globalization and privatization. Patrick Hinny scrutinizes the
phenomenal reformer who has become widely
popular around the Arab and Muslim world.
Date of source: Saturday, June 17, 2006 to Friday, June 23, 2006
The author asserts that the Muslim Brotherhood uses research and
studies centers as a mean to
practice politics, through making statements and publishing articles’ carrying
the Islamic group’s ideology.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Two leading
members of al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya, ‘Āsim ‘Abd
al-Mājid and ‘Isām Dirbāla, have been recently released, thus decreasing the number
of the group’s current prisoners to less than 500.
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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.