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Date of source: Wednesday, September 1, 2004
This report presents the interviews with nineteen people, 18 Egyptians and one American researcher about the importance of the work of Arab-West Report, people of different backgrounds, Muslims and Christians, clergy and non-clergy, including scholars and human rights lawyers. Christian...
Date of source: Friday, July 30, 2004
Terrorism has not been a product of the Islamic nation and history holds testimony to this. Terrorism is result of nations who lead wars and use media to promote their strength. But when Muslims had power, they were the fairest people in the world. Dr. Abdel Mahdi Abdel Qader, professor of Hadith...
Date of source: Saturday, June 4, 2005
Conditions of Muslims abroad and religious offenses still represent a serious problem seeking a solution to restore the true image of Islam. This issue is raised in reports of Egyptian embassies in Copenhagen and Paris and sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2005
The Ministry of Social Affairs is considering accepting the first Arab organization to defend Islam and attempt to understand and communicate with the other. It is called “The Center for Arab West Understanding.” It is established by a wide array of Muslim and Coptic thinkers and some Western...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Dr. Mustafa al-Shak‘a raised a thorny issue when he called for a ban on consumption of carbonated beverages in Egypt, claiming that the enzymes produced by pigs are essential ingredients in the industry of these beverages.
Date of source: Friday, July 4, 2003
The author interviews three Muslim scholars to comment on whether removing the veil is considered apostasy, especially since Dr. Sabry Abdel Ra’ouf has issued a fatwa in which he condemns retired artists who wore the veil and then removed it as apostates.
20. The Dean of ‘Usul el-Din Faculty (religious fundamentals) demands the teaching of Coptic history
Date of source: Friday, March 12, 2004
Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi, the dean ‘Usul el-Din Faculty (religious fundamentals) [Dr. Bayoumi is a ‘former’ dean of Usul el-Din Faculty] and a member of the People’s Assembly, demanded that Coptic history be taught at schools and universities because Coptic history is an important part of Egyptian...
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 2004
The Ibn Khaldoun Center is nowadays spreading its opinions through a series of seminars it organized under the title “Renewing Religious Discourse.” The center puts forward suspicious ideas declaring that the Islamic thought needs to be reformed because it is not based on a valid logic. Al-Liwaa’...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 13, 2004
The article is an
interview with Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi, former dean of the faculty of Usul Al-Deen [fundamentals
of religion] of the Azhar University and member of Islamic Research Institute. The interview
focuses on the report titled “Renewal of religious discourse” released by the Religious...
Date of source: Friday, January 30, 2004
The article is an interview with one of the prominent
intellectual Islamic leaders, Dr. Abdullah Hassan Barakat, head of the department of comparative
religions and doctrines, Faculty of Islamic Da’wa, Azhar University. Dr. Barakat affirms the
necessity of extending bridges of culture, co-...
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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.