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Date of source: Thursday, January 29, 2004
The article criticizes the Italian cardinal Roberto Tucci who accused Islam of ignoring the rights of non-Muslims and of persecuting the Christians. The article also criticizes the call of poet Abdel-Mo’ti Hegazi for stressing the pharaonic origin of Egyptians, and abandoning Arabism. [He...
Date of source: Saturday, January 31, 2004
The article is a
commentary by a reader on an article published in Rose Al-Youssef about life in America. The
author of the article [commented on] wrote about life in America after a short visit. Bakhum [the
author of this article] explains that the person who America for a short time cannot...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 3, 2004
The article reports about Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, an Egyptian
Imam living in Spain who was sentenced to jail and fined 2,160 Euro by a Spanish court. Mustafa
is accused of publishing a book in which he says that punishing a disobedient woman should be
done through light beating.
The court...
Date of source: Sunday, February 8, 2004
The article
discusses the issue of the punishment for apostasy from Islam. The author explains the opinion of
the Grand Imam of the Azhar, which he expressed while in a visit to Germany.
Dr. Tantawi
explained that a Muslim who commits apostasy is not punished until he sets himself as an enemy...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights [EOHR] called on President Mubarak,
in a recent statement, not to ratify the rulings issued by the State Security Court, or
“emergency courts,” in what is known as the Izderaa al-Adyan case, or the blasphemy case. The
statement expressed the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 5, 2004
The article is a response to statements made by the poet Ahmad Abdel Mo’ti Hegazy. A group of specialized scholars in history and Islamic civilization refute the allegation of the poet Ahmad Abdel Mo’ti Hegazi that Egypt does not belong to the Arabic nation.
Date of source: Saturday, February 7, 2004
The article is an interview with the poet Ahmad Abdel Mo’ti Hegazi. He criticizes the campaign of takfir [accusation of being an apostate] that he is suffering at the hands of an Egyptian paper.
Hegazi comments that the problem of accusations of takfir results from the fact that we are not...
Date of source: Sunday, February 8, 2004
The article is about a draft law proposed by
Anthony Weiner, member of the US House of Representatives, in January 2004. The draft law bans
the U.S. from giving military aid to Egypt. The article gives information about the laws approved
by the US senate targeting Syria and Saudi Arabia.
Date of source: Friday, February 6, 2004
The article reports about the current attitudes of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya towards the
issues of democracy, Hedud [Sharia-based penalties and parliamentary council. The article is
based on the latest ideological revision carried out by the Gama’a which were included in the
book “Nahr Al-Zekrayat…...
Date of source: Sunday, February 8, 2004
The article investigates the problems that flare up
occasionally over the land the Coptic Church owns along the Cairo-Suez road [Patmos Land]. Al-
Arabi interviewed Pope Shenouda. Many Christian men of religion witnessed the interview, which
took place in the Papal residence. The author explains...
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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.