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Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 1999 to Wednesday, May 26, 1999
The capital of Dakahliya Governorate is recorded in the annals of history through the heroism of its people at the time of the Crusades. In the historical part of the city lies Dar Ibn Lockman, the house where Louis IX, King of France, was imprisoned in 1250 after the seventh Crusade was defeated...
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 1999 to Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Canadian police have confirmed that an Egyptian man with suspected ties to violent Islamic fundamentalists in the Middle East has been detained as a security risk. His insistence that he was a "devout Muslim" persecuted by the Egyptian government was also found to lack credibility.
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 1999 to Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Switzerland’s federal police chief said on May 13 that Egypt believed Saudi-born Osama Bin Laden financed the 1997 attack by militants in Luxor in which 58 foreigners, most of them Swiss, were killed.
Date of source: Friday, May 21, 1999
The Ibn Khaldoun Center is accused of attempting to stir up strife between Egyptians, both Muslims and Christians through its publication of a project for Islamic religious studies at pre-university level entitled "History and Social Studies."
Date of source: Tuesday, May 25, 1999
The Grand Sheikh recently clashed with those more politically minded when he refused to lead a prayer for the martyrs of Kosovo. Explaining that it was unlawful according the Muslim Shari’a, he suggested that those who wished to pray for martyrs do so at home or at mosques affiliated to the...
Date of source: Saturday, May 22, 1999 to Friday, May 28, 1999
A member of the Maglis Al-Shaab [the People’s Assembly] accused the Ministries of Culture and Information of going against the teaching so of Islam when they organized a beauty queen pageant. He was supported by other members who said the contest was a Zionist conspiracy to remove the honor of...
Date of source: Saturday, May 22, 1999 to Friday, May 28, 1999
In Alexandria, Mohammed Ibrahim Mahfouz, an ex-chairman of an Alexandria maritime company and the holder of a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy, claims to be God and the prophet Mohammed. He says people should pray towards him, and that the Hajj can be made at his apartment instead of going to Makkah...
Date of source: Saturday, May 22, 1999
Minister of Waqfs, Dr. Mahmoud Hamdy Zaqzouk announced that the Islamic world would reassess its position during the Islamic conference to be held on June 22, 1999 in Cairo.
The Al-Azhar and the Ministry of Waqfs has contributed one million pounds to Kosovo refugees.
A new Islamic center costing...
Date of source: Friday, May 21, 1999
A joint committee has been set up by the Ministry of Information and the Ministry of Waqfs [Endowments] to start a program that will celebrate the occasion of the fourteen hundredth anniversary of the entry of Islam into Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 1999 to Wednesday, May 26, 1999
"Its a conspiracy against our cultural heritage"; "a hidden agenda that aims at eradicating our identity"; "it is the destruction of the history of the Islamic nation" - the "it" being a reference to a controversial decision taken by minister of culture, Farouk Hosni, to disperse the permanent...
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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.