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Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Asharq Al-Awsat obtained the publishing rights of the book written by Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya member Nageh Ibrahim in which he chronicles the ideas of the group’s historical leaders. Titled “Al-Islam wa Tahadiyat Al-Qarn Al-Eshreen” [Islam and the challenges of the 21st century], the book presents...
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: 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: 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...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
To the CEO and the editor of Rose Al-Youssef,
In your magazine’s issue number 3965 issued on June 5, 2004, you published an article written by Mr. Karam Gabr titled “He holds a pistol in his hand with which he could harm anything in Egypt…who protects Saad Eddin Ibrahim.”
The article contained many...
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 2004
Expatriate Copts usually fell among one of two groups: a majority who left Egypt in quest of a better life abroad, and a minority who left to escape bitter instances—usually with the authorities—at home. A ‘silent majority’ and a ‘loud-voiced minority’ then emerged and came to characterize the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Shabina Begoum, A 15-year old Bengali Muslim student living in Britain, said that the school prevented her from wearing a jelbab that covers her entire body except her hands and face. She said that her education has been affected and her human rights violated as a result of this decision. The...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 2004
Why did Saad Eddin Ibrahim recently travel to Turkey to attend a conference on security, globalization and the new religious discourse? The conference was sponsored by the NATO. Who invited him? The NATO or the US? Did any organization pay for his travel and accommodation expenses? Could Saad Eddin...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
A report released on the health condition of President Mubarak by Hani Al-Seba’i, the head of Al-Maqrizi Center for Historical Studies, also revealed the names of the organizations that are against the regime. These organizations disseminate their ideas from abroad freely. Those organizations are...
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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.