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Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
Preachers’ salons are back again. These salons are now the fashion among women from the elite class and the wealthy, not only in Cairo but also in a number of governorates. The women are first attracted to such salons by [the desire to hear] Qur’an and learn it by heart. These Qur’an lessons later...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 2004
The American University in Cairo has put a strange condition on its admissions application: Any girl who applies to AUC cannot wear the niqab and must accept all university policy. The application also requires the student or her parents to sign a vow that she will not wear anything that covers her...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 2004
Tomorrow, Dr. Nabil Luqa Bebawi will discuss his dissertation at the Higher Studies Faculty at the Police Academy, titled “The rights and duties of Christians under the Islamic State and their impact on national security.” The dissertation was supervised by Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, the Minister...
Date of source: Monday, June 21, 2004
It is important to warn against what Dr. Milad Hanna said in the program “Khana Lak” [a space for you]. In the program, Dr. Hanna said, “It is good that you [addressing the host of the program] talked about the right of determining sovereignty. Many Egyptians here say that the Sudanese got their...
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 2004
The book al-Mowarana il Awlama: al-A qbat fi Alam Motaghayer (Citizenship and Globalisation: Copts in a Changing World) by Hany Labib, published by Dar al-Shorouq in 2004 in Arabic, tackles the relationship between Copts and their homeland, in the era of globalisation. Within the context of present...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
In a lecture held at the Alexandria Sporting Club, the Grand Imam of the Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, and Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of Alexandria, called for the teaching of ethics in schools, in addition to a religious education class that should not be eliminated.
The two religious...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
A group of scholars and intellectuals traveled last week to Europe in order to “improve the image of Islam and Muslims” in Western public opinion. The program aims at eliminating mistaken ideas about Islam. This coincided with an agreement taken by a number of Muslim businessmen in Canada and the U...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
On June 1, 2004, Al-Jazeera satellite channel broadcast a discussion between Mustafa Tayseeritsh, the Mufti of Bosnia, and the head of the Tanweer Islamic Center in Cairo, Abu Islam Ahmad Abdullah. The discussion centered on the benefits of dialogue between religions. Abu Islam was the symbol of...
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 2004
A group of Islamic scholars and representatives of other religions held a meeting in Geneva, under the auspices of the Ta’arof [Acquaintance] Institution and the Qortoba Institution, to lay the foundations of dialogue between religions based on transparency. The symposium, attended by Islamic...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 2004
Moddather Arani, lawyer of the former imam of Finsburry Park, Abu Hamza Al-Masry, complained of harassment faced by her client at Belmarch prison. She said that six members of his family planned to visit him in prison yesterday for the first time since his arrest, but received a phone call from the...
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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.