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Date of source: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
In an Alexandrian youth camp, the Egyptian Grand Mufti, Dr. Ali Goma’a, met with nearly 500 students from Egyptian universities and from delegations studying at the Azhar. Dr Goma’a gave his lecture on the mosque’s role in building the individual. Dr. Goma’a also answered questions on various...
Date of source: Sunday, June 12, 2005
In his excellent book, ‘Understanding Jihad’, David Cook of Rice University in the USA dismisses the low-grade debate that has raged since 9/11 over the nature of jihād - whether it is a form of offensive warfare or (more pleasantly) a type of moral self-improvement
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2005
Westerners did not learn the old lesson when they provided a shelter for the inhuman wolves in their war against communism in Afghanistan. They did not learn from giving shelter to fugitives from justice in Egypt who planned black terrorism, in spite of president Husnī Mubārak’s continuous appeals...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 27, 2005
News about the arrest of terrorist suspects all over Europe and the U.S. drew the attention to what is known as the dormant terrorist cells of al-Qācida
Date of source: Monday, May 2, 2005
Last February, I interviewed Alistair Crook, a former British intelligence officer, in my [Aljazzeera] Bilā Hudoud [without limits] TV program. Working on activities pertaining to Islamic nations, Crook’s first mission was in Afghanistan, during the Soviet occupation between 1979 and 1990 and the...
Date of source: Saturday, April 30, 2005
President Mubārak has declared that the law does not allow forming religious parties. He responded to a question about the transformation of the banned Muslim Brotherhood to a political party.
Date of source: Thursday, March 18, 2004
In a lecture held at the UN headquarters in New York last January, General Secretary Kofi Anan criticized the harassment and the discrimination Muslims have been exposed to, especially after the September 11 events. Anan called for making up for the infringements upon the rights of Muslims...
Date of source: Sunday, April 4, 2004
The American administration attributes terrorism to culture and faith—especially Islamic faith. The lack of terrorist events during a long period of time in the Islamic culture’s history is evidence that the Islamic culture is not a reason for the terrorism that is currently taking place. So if...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 21, 2004
We were mistaken to think that religious extremism that attacks creativity faded away in the recent years. In Sheikh Zayed City in Egypt, where the head of the City destroyed two statues decorating its entry after some fundamentalists put pressure on him. For they think that these statues are just...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 5, 2004
A Belgian thinker caused a huge uproar at the Higher Council for Islamic Affair’s sixteenth conference when he surprised the participants by directing severe criticisms at the Islamic world and accusing Muslims of not being transparent. He also accused Muslims of failing to manage a serious and...
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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.