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Date of source: Saturday, March 23, 2002
The Muslim Brotherhood’s representative in the parliament submitted a suggestion saying that the office of dean of faculty should be chosen by elections rather than by appointment. This is an attempt on the part of the Brotherhood to control the leading positions in universities. Many university...
Date of source: Saturday, March 9, 2002
The court refused to hear a lawsuit field by the Brotherhood members studying at the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, against the administration of the faculty because of its decision to pull down an old mosque in the faculty. The faculty administration said that it decided to pull down...
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
An Wan Mat [An Wan Min
Wan Mat], a Malaysian university professor, donated over $30,000 to an extremist group to finance a terror attack in
Indonesia.
What is the extent of the influence of terrorism if it now involves university professors that finance
destructive operations targeting a...
Date of source: Saturday, May 19, 2001 to Friday, May 25, 2001
Despite the attempts of the minister of education to limit the influence of extremist teachers in public schools, extremists are still spreading their destructive ideas among their fellow teachers and students. The minister moved about 3,000 extremist teachers to administrative positions,...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 2, 2001
The Education Minister declared in the Shura Council that extremists controlled 90% of educational institutions in Egypt. He prevented 3,000 teachers from teaching, believing that they taught students extremist ideas. He said that security forces found long-term plans prepared by extremist...
Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2001 to Friday, March 9, 2001
Some professors think that if male students sit next to their female colleagues something immoral might happen. They consider this to be an evil vicious act. In the Faculty of Commerce a professor refuses to let in male students who apply cream to their hair and female students who wear make-up,...
Date of source: Sunday, December 17, 2000
President Sadat described 1972 as a "foggy year." Students and intellectuals started adopting this name and promoted it. Everybody waited for the war to start to revenge 1967 but it then seemed that Sadat was hesitant and would never make the decision which made students at universities attack...
Date of source: Saturday, November 25, 2000
In the Student Union elections of this year in the Egyptian Universities the extremists lost. The moderate current won the elections in all the faculties with the exception of the faculty of Medicine, where the religious current won 25% of the positions. Extremists no longer control the Faculty of...
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2000 to Friday, May 5, 2000
The remains of terrorism are still looking for any hole to penetrate again Egyptian society, they are trying now to go back to their old game of occupying the university mosques, but this time their plan was frustrated due to the caution of university administrations and students.
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2000 to Friday, April 21, 2000
The [Islamic] extremist groups changed their plan of work regarding the penetration of [secular] Egyptian society after successful security initiatives, which tightened the control over the extremists, and restricted their devastation of society. Once again, they have started to access society...
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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.