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Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2006
An article about the Muslim Brotherhood’s intent to establish a state that has a religious, and not civil nature, and the attitude of the Muslim Brotherhood towards the Copts.
Date of source: Monday, March 6, 2006
Dr. Muhammad Sa‘d Ibrāhīm responds to an article published in al-Fajr by Dr. Sa‘īd Sallām, head of the Pediatrics Department at the Faculty of Medicine, al-Minyā University about the alleged persecution of a Coptic researcher in the faculty.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
The sessions of the Saudi conference “Extremism and moderation," organized by the King Abdel Aziz Center for National Dialogue, witnessed heated discussions that reflected the completely different views of the participants especially on the issue of the Saudi educational curricula. The research...
Date of source: Saturday, December 27, 2003
Arguing that music contravenes Islam, a Kuwaiti Islamist MP demanded that music education be banned in all public schools. The Kuwaiti MP proposed substituting Islamic education for music lessons.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
The Kuwaiti National Assembly witnessed a very heated debate over educational strategy and reform of school curricula. The 14-member Islamic parliamentary bloc stressed that it will use its constitutional tools against the Minister of Education in case he was influenced by claims that the current...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Members of the Kuwaiti National Council warned the Minister of Education Rashid Al-Hamad against making any change in the curricula of Islamic education. They demanded that curricula upgrades be limited to scientific subjects in order to cope with the developments of the age and the requirements of...
Date of source: Monday, December 29, 2003
Kuwaiti Minister of Education Dr. Rashid Al-Hamad announced yesterday that Kuwait is upgrading its school curricula in order to omit any texts that encourage religious extremism.
Date of source: Saturday, November 8, 2003
In comparing the conditions of Arab and Islamic societies today to their conditions centuries ago, it will be clear that the predominance of the “violent mind” has mounted. To be precise, however, it is the “culture of the violent mind” and not the “violent mind” itself that spread among large...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Dr. Pink presented her paper on teaching ethics and values in Egyptian schools at the international conference of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) at Vilnus University, Lithuania, April 9-12, 2003. Egyptian schools strongly promote nationalism and development with an emphasis of...
Date of source: Thursday, March 27, 2003
The head of the Egyptian parliament referred an urgent request submitted by a Brotherhood parliamentary member concerning the criticism which the Minister of Education leveled at Qur´an schools to the Education Committee of the parliament. The minister said that such schools are responsible...
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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.