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76. Will the family and companions of the Prophet Muhammad appear in drama after al-Qardawi’s fatwá?
Date of source: Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Portraying the role of Muslim orthodox Caliphs in drama has been forbidden before in
Egypt and other Arab
countries.
Date of source: Friday, October 6, 2006
A new Islamic satellite channel
launched five
months ago is said to be successful with the people, but is also criticized by scholars for promoting
extremist salafist ideas.
Date of source: Saturday, October 7, 2006 to Friday, October 13, 2006
The author of the
article, Mustafá Bayyūmī, provides a literary analysis of
some of Najīb Mahfūz’s works,
highlighting the great writer’s allusions to the companions of
the Prophet Muhammad in most of his
writings.
Date of source: Saturday, September 30, 2006 to Sunday, October 1, 2006
Mustafa
Bayyūmī analyses the images of God’s prophets used in the novels of Najīb Mahfūz.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 27, 2006
A critique of the strict censoring of religious films maintained by the Azhar. The authors warn of similar rigidity by the church.
Date of source: Sunday, September 28, 1997
At the Azhar,
English woman Jane Wilman, the wife
of an Alexandrian businessman, Dr. Ali Elba, has declared that she has
embraced Islam and taken the new name Eisha
Mohammed Elba. This conversion was applauded in the national
newspaper, al-Ahram, but Youssuf Sedhum wonders
why conversions to...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 17, 1997
Subtitle:Saad Zaghloul distributed
bibles to excellent students and made, for the first time, the study of
Christianity a scholastic
subjectNot mentioning the religion on the identity card is an important request.
Syria did it, but
Egypt continues to refuseThere is a belief that Copts are rich...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 17, 1997
Thanks to the Congress ... pardon to the Egyptian People’s AssemblyAl-Dustūr newspaper published in its issue of August 27, 1997, an essay entitled "Crusaders have not put their swords down yet". The writer expressed his worry at an American economic boycott, or an American marine invasion of Egypt...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 12, 2006
The author
of the article criticizes the public behavior of some Christian clergymen and the interference of the Coptic
Orthodox church in secular issues.
Date of source: Sunday, July 9, 2006
The author questions why, during a recent television interview, the opinions of
two
prominent writers about the ‘Da Vinci Code’ were describes as a rebellion guided by the devil even
though they
stressed that they were against the content of the film.
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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.