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Date of source:
Swift intensive efforts were made this week to contain a Muslim-Christian crisis due to a
blasphemous article, by
a Muslim writer, about a former monk. Thousands of angry youths protested against
the article, the Government was
accused of being in collusion with the paper, Pope Shenouda...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 18, 2006
The author suggests in this article
that the government is targeting the independent newspapers because their professional performance has disclosed
the "national" press and stirred public opinion against corruption.
Date of source: Monday, October 16, 2006
The review deals with a court ruling against Mustafá Bakrī, the editor-in-
chief of
al-Usbū‘ newspaper, sentencing him to six months in prison for "slandering
Hishām
Tal‘at," when he accused him of falsely claiming to be a journalist and issuing his
newspaper
Misr al-Fatāh without prior...
Date of source: Thursday, July 27, 2006
The author discusses different viewpoints on the draft law related to press freedom and states that
the removal of the article that prescribes punishment for alleged cases of defamation is a positive step towards
democracy.
Date of source: Sunday, July 9, 2006
A
few days ago, the Shūrá [Consultative] Council
discussed a draft law on amending some
articles of the penal code pertaining to publication-related cases. A large
number of journalists staged a
sit-in in protest against the proposed amendments, describing them as a setback to
the freedom of...
Date of source:
In
a series of articles the author discusses the issue of journalists’ demands to have the penalty of
imprisonment for publishing-related charges removed and the need to include certain criteria into
legislative
debates over this draft law, such as guaranteeing journalists’ rights of free...
Date of source: Monday, May 29, 2006
The article focuses on the referral of Sawt al-Umma
journalists to the criminal court over
accusations that they slandered judges by publishing a so-called
black list of judges involved in rigging the last
parliamentary elections.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 3, 2001
The Editor-in-Chief of Al-Nabaa was put under guard in the hospital where he is being treated from a heart attack. He stated that his defense would request that the implementation of his three-year prison sentence be stopped because of his health condition and for the good of his work.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 3, 2001
The Editor-in-Chief of Al-Nabaa stressed that he did not [mean to] hurt the feelings of Copts [by publishing pornographic photos of an expelled monk] and that he did not mean to cause any division between the children of the one nation. He also stressed that Al-Nabaa was not a sexual paper.
Date of source: Friday, September 28, 2001
The Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court postponed the examination of the appeal lodged by the editor-in-chief of Al-Nabaa, in which he asked for cancellation of the judgment given by the Administrative Court that withdrew Al-Nabaa’s license and stopped it from being issued.
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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.