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Date of source: Saturday, February 18, 2017
Usāmah Bin Lādin sought his advice, and Muḥammad Mursī spared no effort to free him from the US prison.
Many people probably do not know `Umar `Abd al-Raḥmān, who died on Saturday evening in a USA prison, but everyone knows the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the United Nations...
Date of source: Friday, February 24, 2017
In his famous speech on June 29, 2012, after winning the presidential election race, deposed Egyptian President Muḥammad Mursī pledged exerting efforts to release Shaykh `Umar `Abd al-Raḥmān, leader of al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmiyah [Islamic Group] who died last Saturday in a US prison.
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2007
ʿUmar ʿAbd al-Raḥman was born in 1938 in the village of al-Jamālīyah on the Nile Delta. He lost his sight ten months after his birth due to childhood diabetes. In 1993, ʿAbd al-Raḥman was charged with leading a terrorist group that orchestrated several terrorist attacks.ʿAbd al-Raḥman was convicted...
Date of source: Thursday, August 25, 2011
Tens of supporters of Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel Rahman are continuing protests outside the American Embassy in Cairo for the sixth consecutive day, demanding his release from prison in the U.S.
Date of source: Sunday, October 25, 2009
Watani International comments on its most recent book, ’ Sadat in the memory of Copts: Days of pain and triumph.’ The book was written by Robeir al-Faris. The book is divided into eight chapters and looks at the development of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt as well as the Nāsir years before...
Date of source: Sunday, November 26, 2006
An old member of al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah affirms that some
old
leaders of the group joined al-Qā‘idah.
Date of source: Friday, November 9, 2001 to Monday, November 12, 2001
The head of the
Ansar
Al-Sharī‘a organization in London stressed that Iran handed Rifa’i Taha, the head of the military wing of
the Jamā‘āt al-Islāmīyah over to Syria and they then handed him over to Egypt. Still, fundamentalist
sources in
Egypt did not confirm the news. From another...
Date of source:
The Taliban ruling Afghanistan denied recent reports about its agreement to exchange two
Americans, who were accused, with another six aid workers, of Christian missionary activity in Afghanistan,
for
Omar Abdel Rah...
Date of source:
Montasser al- Zayyat, the lawyer of the Jamā‘āt al-Islāmīyah was interviewed by al-Midan, Asharq al-Awsat and al-Hayat. In the statements he gave to the three papers he commented on the initiative denouncing violence, the government’s reaction towards it, the differences between the Jamā...
Date of source: Sunday, November 19, 2006
Majdī Khalīl discusses the forced disappearance of Coptic girls. The phenomenon is not new, however it being announced more frequently. Khalīl discusses the reasons why Coptic families are more often daring to announce the disappearance of their girls, and the reasons behind the increase of the...
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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.