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Date of source: Friday, April 9, 2004
Until when will we still be talking about Islam and the West and the necessity to correct the image and the notions [about Islam and the Middle East]? [Until when], while we never do what is required?!
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Scholars agree that what religion asks of women is to cover all their body except their face and hands. The dress women should wear should not be tight on their body and should not be transparent. This is the dress code that we all agree on today. The Qur’anic verses concerning women’s dress do not...
Date of source: Friday, April 2, 2004
The latest rumor about sectarian unrest has been about a Christian woman who was assaulted in Awlad Ragab [a supermarket] in Cairo. The story is merely an incident of misbehavior and impoliteness by a security worker of a supermarket. Some priests at the churches warned Christian women against...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
The late Dr. William Soliman Qilada has contributed a lot to the national dialogue by holding symposiums, conferences, studies and research projects. In all of his books and studies, his main concern was the idea or the principle of citizenship.
Date of source: Thursday, April 1, 2004
God revealed [to humanity] three heavenly [monotheistic, divinely-inspired] religions so that the followers of each religion would worship the one God. The characteristics of national unity are very obvious in the era of Mubarak, with the reverence of the motto, “Religion is for God and the nation...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Sham En-Nessim is one of the few festivities that all Egyptians celebrate. The feast is targeted by Muslims as well as Christian fundamentalists who claim that the celebration is merely a made-up festivity, a bed’a [unorthodox teaching] that is hated.
The symbols of the celebration include water,...
Date of source: Friday, April 2, 2004
Since Bush junior has been in power, the American political dictionary has been full of vocabulary and expressions inspired by religious texts. Some attribute some of this vocabulary and these expressions to the Christian Zionist thought and others attribute them to Bush’s strong religiosity.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
The board of the Foreign Press Association in Egypt sent the following email titled “The Foreign Press Association in Egypt is independent and will remain independent” to all its members:
The articles published in Al-Usbua on March 15 and Sawt Al-Umma on March 22 included false claims made by Mr....
Date of source: Saturday, April 3, 2004
For the first time in 27 years, Pope Shenouda III visited the governorates of Upper Egypt, amid warm welcomes from the populace of Upper Egypt, both Muslims and Christians. The Upper Egyptian population gave the image of the cohesive fabric of the nation, which confirms the falsity of rumors [that...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Dr. Cornelis Hulsman, the expert on the Holy Family tradition in Egypt, arranged access for myself and my friend to the St. Macarius Monastery the only one of four monasteries still active since the time of the Desert Fathers in Wadi Natrun, that is closed to the public. What’s more, the visit...
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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.