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Date of source: Monday, October 18, 1999
After a verdict was made to close Al-Haq newspaper. The Committee to Protect Journalists urged the President in writing to stop the closure orders of Al-Haq as well as Al-Shoura newspapers.
Date of source: Thursday, October 14, 1999
A jailed Kuwaiti professor and newspaper columnist was taken to hospital with an irregular heartbeat after a four-day hunger strike to protest his imprisonment for blasphemy against Islam, supporters said on October 10.
Date of source: Thursday, October 14, 1999
The arrest of Ahmed Baghdadi, head of Kuwait University’s Political Science Department and a newspaper columnist, on blasphemy charges has triggered a war of words between the country’s influential Islamists and liberals. While liberals criticized the sentence for being an alleged infringement of...
Date of source: Monday, September 3, 2012
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that anyone questioning basic Islamic principles could face execution.
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
The Saudis seem bent on fostering the growing Saudi political hegemony over the Arabs and use both their media and political pressure to further their interests. Saudi Arabia, like any other Arab political regime, is interested in maintaining strict control over its image. A report of Reporters...
Date of source: Friday, August 20, 1999
At last, the author of the substitute of the Sunna book appeared in Cairo. Al-Mahdawi failed in the first exam that was held by Al-Ahrar newspaper of him. It was known that Al-Mahdawi denied the Sunna and yet he described the deniers of the Sunna as being damned on earth.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 18, 1999
The Vatican nowadays is exposed to harsh wind that was raised by a book, which was written by ten unknown bishops, except one [who is known] who is Luigi Marinalli. The Monseigneur, who worked for 35 years in the Council of Eastern Churches. The book reveals a lot of scandals.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 18, 1999
During the last weeks, the secularists claimed that Islam rejects art and considers it its enemy. But the Islamic view is that real art is the one which elevates the soul, purifies it from all evils and raises it to different cultural and mental levels.
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 1999 to Wednesday, August 11, 1999
Outraged Lebanese students held a sit-in in Beirut on July 20 to protest Egypt’s banning of the classic book "The Prophet" by the late Lebanese-American author Gibran Khalil Gibran. One week later, AFP reported (erroneously according to the Office of the Censor) that information Minister Safwat...
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 1999 to Saturday, August 21, 1999
In response to a spate of articles in the British media alleging that censorship has banned more than 90 books in Egypt, Minister of Information Safwat El-Sherif has dismissed such reports as "sheer fabrication with no basis of truth." British media charged that this included the book " The Prophet...
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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.