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Date of source: Monday, August 25, 2025
The Ministries of Endowments [awqāf] and Education have announced a project to set up educational nurseries within mosques. The project will be implemented this summer as a pilot in the southern Egyptian governorate of Qinā. Each village or neighborhood will include one nursery within a mosque.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 23, 2025
In a new move to enhance cooperation among ministries, Minister of Endowments [awqāf] Dr. Usāma al-Azharī and Minister of Education & Technical Education Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Laṭīf signed a protocol to launch educational nurseries inside mosques for children before the age of compulsory education.
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ʿIsām al-ʿIrīyān has been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood for many years and served on its Guidance Bureau. He is now the Vice Chairman of Ḥizb al-Ḥurriya w-al-ʿAdāla (Freedom and Justice Party) founded by the Muslim Brotherhood in 2011. Al-ʿIrīyān has been arrested several times;...
Date of source: Sunday, April 20, 2008
Translation throughout the Arab world is discussed, in particular the difficultly in marketing and distributing translated works.
Date of source: Sunday, February 24, 2008
The article sheds light on the issue of translation in the Arab world. All of the observers admitted that there is a problem with translation in the Arab world. The majority of them attributed it to financial factors, but many of them also claimed that the low level of education is a significant...
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2007
Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Laṭīf reports on cases of administrative and financial corruption found in the Department of Possessions at the Institution of Antiquities in Qinā.
Date of source: Monday, April 9, 2007
The exclusion of National Democratic Party members from selecting candidates came as a shock to many members, prompting them to hold several meetings in East Cairo to discuss handing in a mass resignation to embarrass the party.
Date of source: Monday, March 26, 2007
A number of Catholic and Orthodox church leaders have sent letters to leaders of the NDP recommending Marqus Ishāq Nakhlah as an NDP candidate for the Sh?rá Council in Cairo’s eastern constituency.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 15, 2006
This press review discusses the growing
influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egyptian
political life, and their constant efforts to control educational
institutions, including governmental
schools. In al-Musawwar magazine, ‘Abd al-Qādir Shāhīb
linked the recent
support of some Egyptian...
Date of source: Monday, February 27, 2006
This is an interview with the minister of water resources and irrigation, Dr. Mahmoud Abu Zayd, on his constitutional capacity as the supervisor of the Engineers’ Syndicate. Abu Zayd explained that the infringements that took place during the syndicate’s last general assembly made the assembly’s...
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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.