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Date of source: Monday, April 18, 2016
Egypt’s Press Syndicate organized for the second day its fifth General Conference Under the title "Towards a legislative environment". The conference is organized in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee, with the participation of many writers and journalists to discuss and debate all matters relating...
Date of source: Monday, April 18, 2016
The Egyptian House of Representatives issued a statement, lashing out at a number TV talk shows and programs that have recently criticized the Parliament and its members. This criticism is outside the limits of law and beyond the limits of freedom of opinion and expression.
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Al-Muhājir (translation: the Immigrant, common spelling: El Muhager), a film by the Coptic Christian film director Yūsuf Shāhīn, caused uproar when it screened in Egyptian cinemas, especially as it had not been prevented by authorities after Islamists sued the film and its crew. Yūsuf...
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Tūjān al-Faīṣal, the first female member of the Jordanian parliament, is being interviewed and talks about her background, the effects that the Israeli-Jordan peace treaty has on Jordan politics and democracy, pluralism and the role of intelligence in Jordan, legal and judicial...
Date of source: Saturday, January 1, 2005
Born in 1940, Dr. ʿAbd al-Muʿṭī Bayyūmī is an Egyptian professor at the Usūl al-Dīn (Fundamentals of Religion) Faculty in the Azhar University in Cairo. He has addressed many issues related to fiqh, as well as issues related to culture and politics. According to Dr. Bayyūmī, the renewal of...
Date of source: Thursday, February 1, 2007
Ṭāriq Saʿīd Ramaḍān was born in 1962 in Geneva, Switzerland and is the grandson of Ḥasan al-Bannā, the founder of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood organization. In Egypt, Ramadān has become a persona non grata, due to the country's fear of his supposed links to the Islamist wing. He has allegedly...
Date of source: Sunday, October 1, 2006
Jamāl al-Bannā was born in 1920 in al-Mahmūdiyyah in al-Bihīrah governorate, Egypt. His elder brother was al-Imām Ḥasan al-Bannā, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Despite being the brother of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Bannā pursued quite different interests. al-Bannā...
Date of source: Thursday, February 1, 2007
Flemming Rose is a Danish journalist, author and since 2010 foreign affairs editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. As culture editor of the same newspaper, he was responsible for the September 2005 publication of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons that led to huge controversy early the...
Date of source: Sunday, May 17, 2015
The program’s presenter Rīm Māgid commented that the station’s administration had informed her that the program was being stopped on the request of “ruling officials.” However, ONtv has released a statement explaining that the program has not been banned but delayed. The Arabic Network for Human...
11-6 Al-Jazeera journalist Muhammad Fahmī to Robert Fisk: Qatar is playing a dangerous game in Egypt
Date of source: Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Robert Fisk said that Qatar is playing a dangerous game in Egypt pointing to journalist Muhammad Fahmī who was imprisoned by the Egyptian government for 411 days. Fisk explained that Fahamī is convening a conference called “Journalism is not Political” in which he is expected to talk about al-...
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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.