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Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2007
The Popular Court has obliged, in its third meeting at the Bar Association, that the Minister of Culture Farūq Husnī publish and distribute a book on the Ḥijāb. It also canceled Prime Minister Ahmad Nazīf’s decision to appoint Manṣūr as Minister of Transport.
Date of source: Thursday, January 11, 2007
Following the storm raised over his recent book, ’Fitnat al-Takfīr Bayn al-Shī‘ah wa-al- Wahābīyah wa-al-Sūfīyah’ [Reviewer: The Sedition of Takfīr between Shī‘ah, Wahhābism and Ṣūfism], Islamic Intellectual Dr. Muhammad ‘Imārah "explicitly and unequivocally" apologized for quoting texts that...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 10, 2007
The Muslim Brotherhood has been suffering from the massive state drive to detain senior leaders and subscribers of the group. This started when students connected with the group initiated a parade at the Azhar University, which the state saw as demonstration of the group’s force toward the...
Date of source: Monday, January 15, 2007
Dr. Maḥmūd Ḥamdī Zaqzūq, the Egyptian minister of endowments, has issued a decision that bans the ministry’s religious counselors from wearing the Niqāb. Stating that the Niqāb is "a matter of custom and not faith," the minister argued that the appointment of Niqāb-wearing women as...
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2007
Australian Muftī Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn al-Hilālī’s comments to an Egyptian program, in which he said that Muslims are more Australian than the Anglo-Saxons, triggered the outrage of several politicians in Australia.
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2007
After four months of estrangement between the Azhar and the Vatican, the Vatican Ambassador in Cairo, Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald visited Shaykh ‘Umar al-Dīb, chairman of the Permanent Committee for Inter-religious Dialogue, in his office at the Azhar headquarters.
Date of source: Monday, August 25, 2008
After months of conflicts, the Abū Fānā crisis has been put to an end. The decisions taken by the reconcilliation committee were approved by the governmental institutions concerned and the cornerstone was put in place in the fence around the monastery.
Date of source: Monday, November 13, 2006
Hishām Qāsim,
member of the board of advisors for the Arab-West Report and one of the founding
members of the Center for
Arab-West Understanding (CAWU), was chosen for the post of counselor for the World
Association of Newspapers
(WAN).
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
During his recent visit to Egypt, former
prime minister of the Netherlands, Prof.
Andreas Van Agt, has praised Egypt’s role in promoting interfaith and
intercultural dialogue. He has also
welcomed the efforts of the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) to bridge
the gap between the Arab...
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
The European Union was divided over the US-led war in Iraq, but
united against
Hamās, the former prime minister of The Netherlands, Prof. Andreas Van Agt said
yesterday in a
lecture at the Cairo International Lions Club.
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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.