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Date of source: Thursday, April 15, 1999 to Wednesday, April 21, 1999
A Cairo court has granted a woman a divorce from her husband said to have beaten her for objecting to his "un-Islamic" gold earring, court sources said on April 7.
Date of source: Thursday, April 15, 1999 to Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Muhammed Sayyid Tantawi, the sheikh of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious religious institution has called on Muslim leaders to declare jihad (holy war) in support of their Muslim brethren in war-torn Kosovo.
Date of source: Thursday, April 8, 1999
Women claiming to have been raped may be concocting stories by which to excuse themselves from behavior that is neither personally nor socially acceptable. Egypt is a milieu in which Christian as well as Muslim females could find themselves in a position where they feel they need to fabricate...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 14, 1999
The real issue in the current controversy surrounding Najwa Karam, the Lebanese singer, is that of incriminating people without proof, of passing judgment on them without hearing their defense. The case of Ms. Karam could occur in totalitarian regimes, not in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, April 1, 1999 to Wednesday, April 14, 1999
An Alexandria prosecutor has decided to charge 19 members of a dissident sect for religious contempt, judicial officials announced on 25 March.
Date of source: Thursday, March 25, 1999 to Wednesday, March 31, 1999
Odette Skandar, a Christian entrepreneur and president of Egypt and Middle East Company, was chosen to be recognized as one of The Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World.
Date of source: Thursday, April 1, 1999 to Wednesday, April 14, 1999
The Gamaa Islamiyya has decided to halt military operations in response to appeals by its imprisoned spiritual leader and founders.
Date of source: Thursday, March 25, 1999 to Wednesday, March 31, 1999
To the more hardline of Britain’s 1.75 million Muslims, this month’s 75th anniversary of the destruction of the Islamic State (Khilafah) by modern Turkey’s secularist founder Mustafa Kamal is a stark reminder of the West’s enduring hostility to Islam.
Date of source: Thursday, March 18, 1999 to Wednesday, March 31, 1999
Last May [1998], students in an American University in Cairo (AUC) course on Muslim politics complained about Maxime Rodinson’s biography "Muhammad". In less than 24 hours after a columnist decried its teaching as blasphemous, Ministry of Higher Education Minister Mufeed Shehab ordered the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 21, 1999
Divorce nowadays differs tremendously from divorce in the past, being a common event, a word frequently uttered by all alike, young and old, the rich and the poor, the educated and the ignorant. Whether you marry after having a love story or meet someone on-line or through a blind date, chances of...
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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.