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Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2000
In a statement signed by 60 scholars from the Azhar University, the General Organization for Books and the Ministry of Culture were accused of releasing blasphemous publications which attack Islamic ideology and prophet Mohammed’s biography.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2000
Aslan, who works for the authority of Cultural Centers, was accused by the State Security Prosecutor of reprinting the novel " A Banquet for the Seaweed."
Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
The State Security Prosecutor held investigations with the a leading person working with the Ministry of Culture. This person is said to be responsible for the release of the novel "Banquet for the Seaweed".
Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
The Minister of Culture, Farouq Hosni, reiterated his previous statement on the controversial novel and asserted that the allegation that the Ministry could approve such publications is outrageous and may be a sort of political profiteering.
Similar articles appeared in Al-Ahram (p.1), Al-Akhbar (...
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Thursday, May 11, 2000
Despite the unanimity in condemning the clear insulting to God and prophet Mohammed within the novel of "Banquette for Seaweed", some voices are standing behind the ill treated word of freedom of creation to defend the violation of values and the mess.
"Creativity is unlimited, and writers can go...
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Thursday, May 11, 2000
It is neither Poetry nor creativity, it is only vulgarity that humiliates God and the prophets using sexual conversation and expressions. This is how the writer described the anthology of "Woman who likes the sea" and the novel of "The mint aroma" which the Ministry of Culture issued in the series...
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Thursday, May 11, 2000
The news paper asked the Minister of Culture to resign as a way to apologize for printing and financing tens of books that are against morality, including "Banquette for Seaweed", and for giving many contradictory declarations.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Thursday, May 11, 2000
The newspaper summarized a part of the study of Dr. Mohammed Fikry El-Gazaz, attached to Dawoud’s anthology saying that Gazaz chose difficult vocabulary and complicated forms difficult to be understood by simple people.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Thursday, May 11, 2000
Mohammed Al-Qudusi asked the intellectuals, in a long article, to sign a statement which condemns the officials of the Ministry of Culture whom he described as "Freedom enemies and creation falsifiers", after their intervention in the poetry anthology of Abdel Wahab Dawoud. They add and eliminate...
Date of source: Saturday, May 13, 2000 to Friday, May 19, 2000
The demonstration of the Azhar students revealed a lack of self confidence, not a strong faith. Islam needs not to be rescued in a country like Egypt.
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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.