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Date of source: Wednesday, December 27, 2000
Al-Hayat and al-Akhbar praised Pope Shenouda’s invitation to those who participated in the series of "Awan al-Ward" to the annual Ifṭār party of the Coptic Orthodox church. Both papers wrote about the support of the Minister of Information for the series. Rose al- Youssef reported the details of a...
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2006
Ma’moun
Fandī criticizes Egyptian media’s silence toward the insult the
Muslim Brotherhood’s guide
directed to Egypt. He believes that one explanation for this silence is the heavy
presence of Islamists inside
media outlets.
Date of source: Saturday, October 27, 2001 to Friday, November 2, 2001
A lawyer raised a case to prevent the film "To make God love you"
from being shown because the word "God" in the title was associated with a picture of a young man and two girls in
an improper position. He tried to obtain a fatwa to support his legal case, by sending a complaint with the case...
Date of source: Friday, September 28, 2001
The author expressed her surprise at the fact that while the image of Arabs and Muslims is deformed in the Western media, the Arab ministers of information are still at the stage of preparing a media plan to face this. She believed that there should be a unified Arabic media mechanism through which...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 29, 2006
An official Muslim Brotherhood spokesman has questioned the performance of the Ministry of Information in airing the parliamentary sessions and raises doubts about a deliberate blackout.
Date of source: Saturday, December 6, 2003 to Friday, December 12, 2003
The Azhar decided to ban Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid´s book “Al-Khetab Wa Al-Ta´weel” [Discourse and Interpretation], allegedly because it challenge two main pillars of Islam: monotheism and the [divine] preservation of the Qur´an. The author comments that this argument indicates accusing Abu Zeid of...
Date of source: Saturday, November 29, 2003 to Friday, December 5, 2003
A veiled TV broadcaster claimed that the head of Egyptian TV insulted and hit her because she wears the veil. The head of TV denied such claims and said that the broadcaster stirs up her veiled colleagues and harasses the rest. The head of Radio and Television Union made it clear that a broadcaster...
Date of source: Saturday, April 12, 2003 to Friday, April 18, 2003
TV program "Al-Rahman Alaam Al-Qur´an" [The Merciful teaches the Qur´an] presented by Sheikh Muhammad Hidaya brings to the surface the issue of “Show preachers.” Because of the many mistakes Hidaya communicates in the program, the Azhar demands that only Azhar graduates should be hosted...
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2003
The Sheikh of the Azhar approves that women can be judges, muftis and members of the Islamic Research Institute. He stressed that cloning human beings is impermissible. He believes that God may have given Amr Khaled the gift of preaching or perhaps people are impressed by his new way of addressing...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 12, 2005
The Ministry of Information faces a quandary nowadays after the Administrative Court called off minister of Information Anas al-Fiqī’s decision to prevent three veiled anchorwomen to appear on the TV screen, and consequently, they were transferred to other posts such as preparing programs and...
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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.