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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: Monday, June 28, 2004
The veil is a dress code that is deemed acceptable in appearance and content- whether it was essentially based on religious reasons or not. Every person- man or woman- is free to dress as he pleases and follow whatever fashion he likes. So the question remains: why do we freak out and tend to...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 2, 2004
Posters containing religious materials are covering all the walls, doors and even the administrative building of the Girls Faculty [ a faculty that accept female students only] affiliated to the Ain Shams University. The Faculty’s professors know very well that the students embrace extremist...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 2004
The American University in Cairo put a condition on its application that prospective female students should not wear the niqab or the face cover. Deputies in the Egyptian parliament, including the Muslim Brotherhood deputies, submitted a request of information to Dr. Moufid Shihab, the minister of...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 12, 2005
In an interview with Sabāh al-Khayr, Bishop Dr. Youhannā Qulta, Deputy Patriarch of the Coptic-Catholic Church in Egypt, teaches us how to love and understand both life and ourselves.
Date of source: Saturday, May 14, 2005
Al-Akbār covered the terrorists’ threats against the writer Jamāl al-Ghitānī on the background of the cover story on the Niqab on the cover page of his magazine “Akbār al-Adab” [Literature News].
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
Ten years after the publishing of Al-Banna’s book Mas’ouleyit fashal al-dawla al-Islamiya fil
asr Al-hadith [The responsibility of the failure of the Islamic State in the modern era], the
Azhar recommended the banning of the book because of the unorthodox ideas included in the book. A
heated...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 13, 2004
For four concessive weeks, the issue of prohibiting wearing the hijab in French schools
occupied the Arabic press. Tens of articles have been published as to elucidate Chirac’s decision
from different aspects. On the one hand, few writers believe such decision is a French domestic
subject that...
Date of source: Monday, January 12, 2004
Due to the fact that he is close to decision-making
circles, or to be more correct at their center, he knows all the facts. He is a good reader of
various issues, with all their reflections and the input on current situations. Here lies the
importance of this interview with Dr. Usama Al-Baz, the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2004
The article is about Tareq Ramadan, the grandson of Sheikh Hassan Al-Banna, who established
the Muslim Brotherhood.
Tareq Ramadan is an intellectual who has enlightened points of
view and the power to convince others. Ramadan leads the Muslims in France through a moderate
Islamic thought. He...
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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.