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Date of source: 9 Dec 2003
Editor: We know Muhammad Hashem well. He is from a good family, is a cousin of the former rector of the Azhar University, helped organize a lecture in October for Drs. Cornelis Hulsman, editor-in-chief of AWR, at the Azhar in October. Muhammad Hashem not only studied at the Azhar but also in...
Date of source: 27 Dec 2003
We would like to wish all our readers a blessed new year. We are very grateful for the letter of recommendation of former Dutch Prime Minister Andries van Agt.
We are spending much time on researching the background of the arrested 21 Christians, many of them former Muslims, and one Muslim in...
Date of source: 9 Dec 2003
The Arab-West Report has taken on a vital work for the cause of intercultural understanding and hopes to keep doing so. This non-for-profit organization publishes (in full or in summary) translations of articles coming out of the Arabic press that are highly informative. These articles not only...
Date of source: 8 Dec 2003
Dr. Muhammad Emara most of the time speaks in an aggressive tone. If you omit the word "Islam" from his discourse, you will immediately think that he is reading a Nazi statement. Last week, Emara thought that he had directed a fatal blow to one of his intellectual opponents, that is, Dr. Nasr Hamid...
Date of source: 6 Dec 2003 to 12 Dec 2003
Al-Musawwar and Al-Hayat reported that the Azhar has banned a new book by Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu-Zeid "Al-Khetab Wa Al-Ta’weel" [Discourse and Interpretation]. This is because the book and its author allegedly challenges two main principles of Islam: monotheism and divine preservation of the Qur’an....
Date of source: 8 Dec 2003
[Editor: Compare Bakry’s comments to the other articles about Ibrahim in this and the previous issue of AWR. It is obviously a campaign in which exaggerations and possibly lies seem to be possible].
Subtitles:
*He calls for civil disobedience in Egypt
*He attacks the Egyptian press, accusing it...
Date of source: 5 Dec 2003
[Editor: Emara refers to possible statements of Christian saints that do not play any role in any modern Christian discourse. This placing such statements outside the context of time]
While being close to the end of our discussion on the Islamic religious discourse and the accusations directed to...
Date of source: 6 Dec 2003
The article is an interview with four [Saudi] figures: lawyer Abdel-Aziz Al-Qasam, journalist Abdel-Aziz Al-Kheder, specialist in [the affairs of] Islamic groups, Abdullah Ibn Begad Al-Utabi, researcher in the affairs of Islamic movements and Dr. Muhammad Ibn Saud Al-Bishr, associate professor at...
Date of source: 8 Dec 2003
Subtitle:
*The Ministry of Awqaf [endowments] knows nothing about the matter and local people get ready to defend the rest of the shrines.
*Some of the recently demolished shrines are of archaeological value, but the Brotherhood branded them idols that must be demolished regardless of the...
Date of source: 8 Dec 2003
It is not acceptable that [Muslim] clerics neglect many essential and important issues and focus their attention on giving fatwas on issues of secondary importance that do not fall in line with the current conditions of the society.
Instead of speaking about the necessity for reconsidering the...
Date of source: 6 Dec 2003 to 12 Dec 2003
The article is a letter sent to Rose Al-Youssef by Hassan Yaqout Hassan, a retired pilot. Mr. Hassan comments a part of a program aired by the TV channel of Iqraa.
The program interviewed a Sheikh who stated that a woman once told him that she does not like to take a veil. "Who told you that you...
Date of source: 7 Dec 2003
A responsible security source from the State Security Prosecution Department of Giza governorate stated that the suspects in the events of the village of Garza were released on a bail of three thousand pounds for each pending the hearing of the lawsuit which is due to take place in mid January....
Date of source: 6 Dec 2003 to 12 Dec 2003
The article is a letter sent to Rose Al-Youssef by a Christian girl and she mentions that she did not have any negative feedback on the articles published by the magazine until she read an article published under the title of "The grounds of the veil and its battles" in the last issue.
The...
Date of source: 8 Dec 2003
Today, I complete this serial with some remarks on the response I received from the Wafdi [member of Al-Wafd party] writer Talat Gadallah. I would like to reassure him that we are not involved in a battle but in a dialogue aiming at defining facts concerning the issue of our Coptic brothers, their...
Date of source: 8 Dec 2003
Editor: good comment.
A week ago, the TV program of al-etegah al-Mo’akes [Counter direction] [aired by Al-Jazeera TV] bewildered me as the host pushed everyone to conclude that the American aggression against the Arab world is a crusade. Consequently, the result of the electronic opinion survey...
Date of source: 6 Dec 2003
The expression "Islamic terrorists" has become very common in international media. The recent bombings in Istanbul reinforced in the minds of average Westerners that the danger threatening their lives is "Islamic terrorists." We are now very close to the point of living, at least mentally, the...
Date of source: 6 Dec 2003
A great number of Catholics and curious people came to the city of Branklioni [the name is a translitteration from Arabic], southern Italy, last Thursday after hearing news about a life-size bronzy statue of the priest Padre Pio crying blood. Some believed the news is mere deception and others...
Date of source: 7 Dec 2003
For the first time since its re-inauguration last year the Bibliotheca Alexandrina declared that it has withdrawn a copy of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion ” which Jewish bodies brand anti-Semitic from the showcase of strange and rare books. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina has also withdrawn five...
Date of source: 29 Nov 2003
The Samaritans have been living on the slope of Mount Gerizim which they sanctify for many centuries. They believe in the Torah but they disagree with Jews over the status of Jerusalem as it does not enjoy any holiness according to their own beliefs. The sect of the Samaritans draws its spiritual,...
Date of source: 29 Nov 2003
Subtitle: They are masters in power and kings in the world of underground Israel.
The Russians poured into Israel in hundreds and thousands and their number exceeded one million. Some years ago, the emigration of Russians to Israel was such a unattainable hope. Before the collapse of the Soviet...
Date of source: 29 Nov 2003
Russians seem to be the determining power in the Israeli society which admits Judaism as a race and a religion. They are able of bringing the party they vote in favor of to power.
This actually happened in January 2003 when 29.5% of Russians voted in favor of the Likud. In this election, the number...
Date of source: 8 Dec 2003
The inaccurate, stereotyped view of women in Islam places them in the category of second-class citizens who are of incomplete rights and gives them the rank of the ineffective recipients. Yet the phenomenon of women activists which has emerged during the last few years is due to change stereotyped...
Date of source: 7 Dec 2003
Editor: the article is not offensive but certainly colored, apparently to attract Coptic readers. See the comment of Father Basilius of the Monastery of Macarios below.]
The Anba Maqar [Macarios] Monastery is located on kilometer 92 on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road. Its surface area is 2,700...
Date of source: 8 Dec 2003
[See also the interview with Ibrahim Helal in al-Musawwar, July 4, 2003 - AWR, 2003, week 27, art. 26]
Subtitles:
*Melek, the disciple of Yousab is behind all troubles and he was ordaining metropolitans in exchange for money.
*Al-Nabawi Ismael intended to arrest me in September but Al-Sadat...
Date of source: 9 Jan 2004
We would like to make use of this opportunity to wish all our readers a blessed new year. We wish our Coptic readers a blessed Christmas which, in Egypt, is celebrated on January 7th.
When the news broke of clashes around Patmos land on January 4 we immediately responded with a special report that...
Date of source: 14 Dec 2003
After two-week deliberations, the Philosophy and Doctrine Committee of the Islamic Research Institute issued a fatwa [A Muslim religious opinion or decree given by a Mufti or another Muslim scholar, based on Islamic law and logical deduction] that forbids adopting the beliefs of the Baha’is [...
Date of source: 11 Dec 2003
The Azhar directed a fierce criticism to organizations in the Egyptian state that "open the doors of immorality and moral weakness before disadvantaged youth who can not afford the cost of marriage."
The Azhar expressed its astonishment that an official [state] organization, the Book Organization...
Date of source: 12 Dec 2003
[Editor: the author makes no distinction between practices of Jewish settlers and Jewish faith. He has drawn a caricature of Jewish faith and has generalized the justifications some Jewish extremist may have given. See also the comments of Dr. L. Levine in art. 6]
Last time I mentioned that the...
Date of source: 15 Dec 2003
[Editor: Dr. Levine responded to Dr. Muhammad Emara’s article "Religious discourse between Islamic renewal and American elimination (part 7)" in Al-Akhbar, December 5, 2003, AWR, 2003, week 49, art. 6].
I do not know what version of the Hebrew Bible Dr. Emara responded to, because his quotations...
Date of source: 15 Dec 2003
Cornelis Hulsman: I asked Dr. Larry Levine, an Orthodox Jewish professor of mathematics in New York, U.S.A, to respond to questions following Dr. Emara’s article in Al-Akhbar, December 12, 2003, AWR, 2003, week 50, art. 4. It is obvious Dr. Emara mixes between the teaching of Judaism and behavior...
Date of source: 15 Dec 2003
The U.S. Administration has never moved its eyes away from Islamic groups since the 1940s, which marked the appearance of the Muslim Brotherhood, and till after the September 11 attacks. After September 11, the U.S. Administration has started a war against Islamic groups, without differentiation,...
Date of source: 15 Dec 2003
A new American plan targeting Islam through creating discord and initiating civil war between its followers, Sunni and Shiites, has been set forth by five of the leaders of the Christian-Zionist alliance, namely, Graham Elozoras, Kio Falton, Michael Hulman, Zechariahs Almufcal and Silom Hight [...
Date of source: 15 Dec 2003
Al-Usboa received information that Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the chairman of the Ibn Khaldoun Center, is going to invite the Jewish stock market tycoon George Soros to deliver a lecture at the Center in order to pave the way for Soros to practice his suspicious economic activities in Egypt [looking at...
Date of source: 15 Dec 2003
When Al-Usboa exclusively revealed the scandal of the suspicious American funding to the Ibn Khaldoun Center, it was sure that each and every word it wrote was true.
Saad Eddin Ibrahim started holding press conferences, giving statements and appearing on satellite TV channels to deny what we wrote...
Date of source: 15 Dec 2003
Abdel Hai Khalaf head of Social Justice Party presented a complaint to Counselor Maher Abdel Wahid the General Prosecutor against Saad Eddin Ibrahim director of the Ibn Khaldoun Center. In his complaint Khalaf accused the Ibn Khaldoun Center of committing many misdemeanors pointing out that the...
Date of source: 11 Dec 2003
The writer reports the harsh argument that occurred between Fahmi Howeidi, an Islamic intellectual, and Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim in one of a TV program.
Howeidi rejects the position of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, which supports American-style democracy. Despite the fact that Howeidi believes that the...
Date of source: 15 Dec 2003
There are two types of terrorism, a terrorism that is practiced against Muslims and terrorism Muslims practice.
The type of terrorism practiced against Muslims is an old one. It started with strong polytheists when the Islamic Da’wa was in the bud [the days of the Prophet Muhammad]. Later, this...
Date of source: 12 Dec 2003
The Islamic movement is divided into two trends. The first one is jihad [usually translated as "holy war," but really means to struggle-not necessarily violently-against anything opposed to Islam]. The followers of this trend think that they shall oppose and fight the current conditions. The...
Date of source: 10 Dec 2003
Saudi Arabia is witnessing these days very important discussions that, until recently, fell in the category of the banned and the forbidden.
A large number of [Muslim] scholars and jurists bring forth their bold ijtihadat [the plural of ijtihad] and publish them in Saudi newspapers in a way that...
Date of source: 12 Dec 2003
Egyptian authorities did not allow the group of the Muslim Brotherhood to recover its whearabouts after the strike they directed at it in Al-Fayoum by arresting 22 active members in the governorate that is 150 kilometers from Cairo. Yesterday security authorities raided the houses of 10 leading...
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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.