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Date of source: Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Universities across Egypt have seen angry students and rebellious professors protesting on campus, threatening to disband only when pro-Mubārak professors and teachers are gone.
The so-called university battle is one of a series of upheavals in the wake of the revolution. It started in Cairo...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
A few days after returning to classes for the second semester, students at Egypt's public universities have started massive protests against the administrators [In the headline by 'Sir' they mean the administrators of the universities] of their institutions, demanding they be sacked for being part...
Date of source: Friday, December 10, 2010
The author Yūsuf Zīdān recently revealed that, after having been translated into Anatolian, his controversial book “‘Azāzīl” has become the second best-selling book in Turkey. He also revealed that his new book “al-Nabatī” is currently the best-selling book in Egypt and that the publishing house...
Date of source: Sunday, December 19, 2010
Mustafá talks about Shaykh Qaradāwī’s controversial comments on Shiites during a television interview, saying that they should not live amongst Sunnīs.
He says that the danger in Qaradāwī’s remarks lies in his huge influence on the Islamic world. Mustafá also says that Qaradāwī’s comments on the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 11, 2010
Subhi reports on the Ministry of Education's plan to combat extremism by rewriting the nation's religious curriculum with the help of the Azhar University and the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Date of source: Saturday, October 23, 2010
Asmā‘ says that today’s primary schools are spawning time bombs. She alleges that it is the same all over Egypt, as if it were all part of one huge strategy targeting children. She says they teach the children jihād and call for a war to free the al-Aqsá Mosque. She also says that they teach them...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 2010
This article mentions the University of Asyut’s establishment of a centre for research and studies on human rights. The centre, which is directly under the charge of the university president, aims at promoting academic research in the field of human rights, propagating awareness of international,...
Date of source: Sunday, July 4, 2010
This article details an official complaint presented to the Minister of Higher Education on the 25th May, 2010, accusing Assyut University’s Philosophy Department of being a stronghold of fundamentalist, extremist thought, and of spreading that through its core curriculum.
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 2010
This article talks about the founding of the organization Egyptians against Religious Discrimination (MARED) and the media coverage concerning sectarian issues in Egypt, with regard to MARED.
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2010
A critical set of exams that will help bolster enrolment in universities aims to bring in highly qualified and fair individuals to supervise the process. However, controversy ensued as people believed the Ministry of Education failed to entrust Mr. Emad Sidhom Morqos to such a position in the...
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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.