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Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999
Pope Shenouda expressed the Coptic Church’s thanks to President Hosni Mubarak for intervening to return the Coptic properties to the church. The Pope fiercely criticized foreign attempts to intervene in Egypt’s internal affairs under the guise of protecting the rights of the Copts.
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Unlike previous sentences no member of the Gama’at al-Islamiya has been sentenced to death. This is perhaps related to the Gama’at’s denouncement of the use of violence and their stop on violent activities since last year.
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
Twenty-one suspected militants were sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor or 5 to 15 years with hard labor. The suspects were accused of plotting to reactivate the militant Al Gamaa Al Islamiyya and of conspiring to blow up Alexandria’s Montazah Palace in 1996 during the time President...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 30, 1999
The University of Al-Azhar, the highest religious authority in the Muslim world, has stated that storage of human eggs is not forbidden by Islam. "Sharia (Islamic law) does not ban the freezing of human eggs if they are subsequently fertilized by the husband’s sperm in order to guarantee the...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
Iranian radicals painted a mural of Khaled Islambouli, the officer who killed Sadat during the military parade on October 6, 1981. Egyptians are not pleased.
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 1999
Assistant Foreign Minister Ambassador Sayyed Qassem left yesterday for Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, leading a high level delegation to take part in the 26th Conference of the Organization of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers.
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 1999
The stormy debate over the new NGOs law has not abated. It is claimed that the new law, which was endorsed by the People’s Assembly before it went into recess a few days ago, was maliciously designed by the government to firmly control NGOs. It is alleged that the law was put forward after some...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
As the furor surrounding Law 153/99 for civil associations dies down following its ratification, everyone has settled down to wait for the executive regulations describing its implementation. "With any law, the way that it’s implemented is much more important than what’s theoretically written in...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 1999
The Ministry of Waqfs (Religious Endowments) has recently handed over 14 more feddans [a feddan is an area approximately equal to an acre] of land to the Coptic Church. This takes to around 680 feddans the total number of feddans of land endowments delivered back to the church to the Church since...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
The military courtrooms in Hike Step have seen a lot of strange things. One of the more bizarre spectacles, however, occurred on 17 June when the verdicts in the latest case against the Gamaa Islamiya - the Montaza Palace trial - came down. Leading defendant Ahmed Al Sheikh, who’d just been...
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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.