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Date of source: 13 Jul 2003
Subtitle: It is time to renew relations with Andalusia.
After five hundred years Spanish Muslims have recently managed to build a mosque in the city of Granada - a stone throw away from Al-Hamra palace, once a symbol of the Islamic influence in Europe. Last Thursday, The Azzan [call to prayer] was...
Date of source: 11 Jul 2003
The article recounts the story of a Muslim family living in Northern Ireland and how it was forced to leave as a result of facing many problems after the September 11 attacks. Female members of the family said they were exposed to insults because of wearing the veil.
Date of source: 13 Jul 2003
A group of American organizations for civil rights and a group of US senators and representatives organized an open hearing in the US senate. The attendees- more than 200 activists in the field of civil rights- listened to the testimony of victims of violating civil rights after the events of...
Date of source: 14 Jul 2003
Subtitle: One of the songs started with the voice of Sheikh Abdel Basset Abel Samad [a very famous reciter of the Qur’an]
They are a very special type of preachers. They do not stand in pulpits to call people to Islam but they mount the stages of European theaters and delight their audience with...
Date of source: 12 Jul 2003 to 18 Jul 2003
The witness was the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The confessor is the well-known extremist in London, Abu Hamza El-Masry. The testimony is important due to the importance and the authority of the witness who supported it with proofs, and the confession is important due to the rule that...
Date of source: 11 Jul 2003
An Italian court tried 35 Egyptian Islamists on the charge of introducing logistic help to terrorist groups. It acquitted another 57 charged in relation to the activities of the Islamic Culture in Milan.
In the 1990’s, Italian authorities arrested 92 Islamists on the charge of Mafia related...
Date of source: 13 Jul 2003
[Editor: this is a very simplistic defense of American media. Several comments have been made in the text.]
William Al-Miri criticizes the promoted incorrect notions in the Arab world about the American press. He states, "I will thoroughly refute such ideas." The writer divides his argument into...
Date of source: 12 Jul 2003 to 18 Jul 2003
[Editor: Atef Helmi does not define what he considers to be ’extremist.’ His use of the word ’extremist’ follows that of several Christian clergy who consider anything ’extremist’ that is not in line with their teaching. The word ’extremist’ is often used to denounce the other but differences in...
Date of source: 11 Jul 2003
In the Third Family Conference of the Coptic Church held recently in Tanta, the counselor of Pope Shenouda III, Edward Ghaleb stated that sexual problems are behind 25% of Coptic divorce cases. He added that the new Personal Status Law for Christians includes other conditions for divorce besides...
Date of source: 11 Jul 2003
Pope Shenouda III grows stronger daily after his second health crisis in less than two months.
[Similar news is reported by Asharq Al-Awsat, July 11, 2003 (p.8)]
Date of source: 16 Mar 2006
[Editor: We e-mailed Bishop Munīr the letter of Metropolitan Seraphim as it was placed in the Coptic Digest. Bishop Munīr had obviously not been aware of the letter of Bishop Seraphim until that moment and responded to Arab-West Report with the following letter] Dear Kees, I am saddened by this...
Date of source: 28 Mar 2006
[Editor: This draft text was first presented to Bishop Marqus before placement in AWR]
AWR presented the text of Episcopal Bishop Munīr to Orthodox Bishop Marqus of Shubra al-Khaymā for feedback. Bishop Marqus has no problem with most of the text of Bishop Munīr and believes it is balanced and fair...
Date of source: 26 Mar 2006
For the third week running, Watani is proceeding with its crusade to support the victims of the Civil Register Authority. Since the Administrative Development Ministry has announced that the manually-issued ID papers which Egyptians have been using to date will be invalidated by year-end, it has...
Date of source: 27 Mar 2006
An American [Editor: Other sources have implied that Abādīr is Swiss, or at least has Swiss residency] citizen Eng. ‘Adlī Abādīr is calling on the UN to put an end to the persecution of Christians in Egypt.The author asks Mr ‘Adlī Abādīr ironically why he does not drop Egypt from his mind, saying...
Date of source: 28 Mar 2006
Dr. Sālim Ahmad Sālim, academic and politician, surprised many by his resignation from al-Minia University due to the discrimination his student Mīrā Māhir Ra’ouf faced in her post-graduate studies exam results.He was one of the few who took action for the continuous discrimination that the...
Date of source: 15 Sep 2005
[This paper was first presented at the annual interfaith dialogue meeting of the Anglican communion and the Permanent Committee of the Azhar al-Sharif for Dialogue with the Monotheistic Religions, meeting at Trinity College, Dublin, on September 15, 2005. It is partly based on AWR's draft report on...
Date of source: 18 May 2006
Metropolitan Seraphim, Orthodox bishop in the UK, not an Egyptian but a native British citizen without much experience in Egypt, wrote a sharp critique on a well prepared lecture of Egyptian Episcopal bishop Mun?r’s without even attending the lecture. It has all appearance that Coptic activists...
Date of source: 26 Mar 2006
The author of the article writes about the repeated calls for the drafting of a unified law for the construction of houses of worship in Egypt. He says that not a single draft has been tabled for discussion in parliament, even though many newspapers, like Watanī and Rose al-Yousuf, have announced...
Date of source: 21 Jul 2003
[Editor: The use of the word ’Nazism’ in the title is extreme. Several credible reports reported about violations of the Geneva Convention but the author seems to exaggerate, an indication of his anger about this treatment.] The author reports the conditions of Arab and Muslim prisoners at the US...
Date of source: 17 Jul 2003
The good thing about the September 11 attacks, if we can say that it has any good, is that it shocked the Western public opinion and opened the eyes of Westerners at a religion that they were ignoring or ignorant about. Similarly, the terrorist attacks in some Arab cities opened the eyes of...
Date of source: 19 Jul 2003 to 25 Jul 2003
All the great Scholars involved in Jihad [Usually translated as "holy war," but really means to struggle - not necessarily in a war - against anything opposed to Islam] through science and knowledge achieved major development in their nation. But the terrorists practicing jihad by murdering, drew...
Date of source: 19 Jul 2003 to 25 Jul 2003
[In order for us Muslims] to be the best among nations, we must understand the lessons of the past. Dr. Fawzi Hammad, the former head of the Atomic Energy Institute, says that when the Arab culture had stopped improving the sciences they had, they regressed in technology. If we want to bring back...
Date of source: 19 Jul 2003 to 25 Jul 2003
A warning for physicians: do not examine a female patient without the presence of her Mahram [A person with whom marriage is forbidden. A relationship by marriage or close blood ties that permanently prohibits marriage between two people, and therefore they are allowed to be in privacy together...
Date of source: 16 Jul 2003
Egyptian authorities released three Brotherhood members before the end of their term which is five years. The Brotherhood believes this is a good initiative.
Date of source: 20 Jul 2003
The Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to renew the jail sentence of 25 Muslim Brotherhood members who have been detained last month. They are charged with membership of an illegal underground group
Date of source: 18 Jul 2003
The Supreme State Security Court will continue hearing the case of Hizb Al-Tahrir [Liberation] Party tomorrow. Three Britons among 26 Islamists, are accused in the case. They, together with the other defendants, are charged with membership in an underground organization that aims at overthrowing...
Date of source: 20 Jul 2003
The article is about the leaders and members of Egyptian fundamentalist groups abroad. It gives their numbers and the countries they live in. It covers the allegations they are charged with and the possibility of their return to Egypt.
The author comments that before the September 11 attacks,...
Date of source: 18 Jul 2003
The term "secularism" has been wrongly associated with science and with all its ideas that are objects of caution, such as the evolution theory [The Arabic for "secularism" is "Elmaniya," which is of the same root word of science that is "elm"]. It has also been fixed as the apposite of religion....
Date of source: 18 Jul 2003
Muhammad Al-Arabi Al-Masari begins his article by giving an example of the issue of Al-salafya Al-jihadya in Morocco, the police report that Robert Richard, a French Muslim prisoner, suspected to be involved in training some terrorist members through a network in Tanger. After being brought before...
Date of source: 22 Jul 2003
In its issue for July 3, 2003, Al-Liwa al-Islami directed two questions to the Minister of Culture: First, is the dangerous change in his paper, the so-called Al-Qahera, which he entrusted to the hands of a group of secularist who write against the true religion and help the growth of extremism,...
Date of source: 20 Jul 2003
The article covers the 11th meeting of the European Council for Fatwa and Research. In one of its sessions there were five researches discussing a vital issue: jihad has no relation with terrorism. The session created a political and fiqh-based controversy while discussing that topic.
Date of source: 23 Jul 2003
Dr. Wahid Abdel-Megeed comments on the events of 11th meeting of the European Council for Fatwa and Research held in Stockholm, Sweden. He believes that the council gives courageous fatwas and ijtihads to handle problems of Muslims. There are five main points discussed through the researches and...
Date of source: 18 Jul 2003
Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq the Minister of Endowments stressed that the religious discourse based on intimidation which is used by some preachers should be changed. He believes this kind of discourse is not in accordance with Islam. He said that preachers should concentrate their discourse more on...
Date of source: 18 Jul 2003
Two Muslim sheikhs comment on the importance of renewing religious discourse. Sheikh Hassan Khidr, deputy of the Ministry of Endowments, said that renewing religious discourse is important, as renewal in general is one of the laws of life. However, it is not good that some people attack Islamic...
Date of source: 18 Jul 2003
The Engineering Administration of the Ministry of Endowments closed three mosques in the Shabeen Al-Qanatir district despite the fact that there are not enough mosques. Worshippers have been praying in streets or visiting nearby small mosques.
The administration explained that the three mosques...
Date of source: 17 Jul 2003
Four Muslim scholars refute the claims of poet and writer Ahmed Abdel Mo’ti Hegazi concerning the Arab conquest of Egypt. Hegazi claimed that Arabs were invaders who wanted to steal the fortunes of Egypt and send it to Baghdad and Damascus.
They argued that the aim of all Islamic conquests were...
Date of source: 19 Jul 2003 to 25 Jul 2003
Freedom of thought and expression is an important element for the spread of Democracy, and Rose Al-Youssef is a model in supporting such a freedom. It took the initiative of trying to discover the roots of the Egyptian character, and I want to speak in some details about the "Coptic Era." It is a...
Date of source: 22 Jul 2003
The article is an overview of a book titled “The Mandates of the Ecclesiastical Judiciary in Egypt in Different Eras” by Magdi Sadeq a lecturer at the Coptic Studies Institute. The book discusses the mandates of the church when it comes to judiciary system during the Arabic-Islamic era the Ottoman...
Date of source: 18 Jul 2003
The Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) participates in a series of lectures under the title “Different tendencies…Common Values” in the US state of Ohio. The aim of the lectures is promoting tolerance among children of different religions and cultures in the state. The head of the bureau...
Date of source: 17 Jul 2003
The annual report of the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) shows that Muslims in the US have been exposed to more than 600 violent and racial discrimination incidents during the year 2002. This number marks a 15% increase over the year 2001.
The Washington Post, which published the...
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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.