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Date of source: Tuesday, January 8, 2002
Montasser Al-Zayyat said that about 2000 Egyptians were living in Afghanistan. About 500 of them were members in Al-Qa´ida organization. He denied that America has financed the Arab-Afghans in their war against the Soviets. He added that the situation of the Islamic groups became more...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 8, 2002
In 1919, Bishop Athanasius of Beni Suef brought the first printing machine for the church. Since then, the process of printing the books and the manuscripts belonging to the Egyptian Church started. Then, at the time of Pope Kyrillos VI, these books were gathered in the Coptic museum.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 8, 2002
Dr. Ra´fat Abdel-Hamid´s “Egyptian thought in the Christian Age” tackles the different Christian philosophical schools. Dr. Abdel-Hamid pointed out that many of the Church Fathers believed that the study of philosophy was contrary to the Christian faith.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2006
A Portuguese cartoonist has applied for a contest, organized by Iranian newspaper Hamshahri, to draw the Holocaust, in reply to Danish cartoons, considered by many to be anti-Islamic.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2006
European Union (EU) foreign policy commissioner Javier Solana had talks with Egyptian President Husnī Mubārak over ways of protecting religious symbols and beliefs as part of his efforts to defuse the crisis. During his visit to Egypt, the second leg of his tour of Arab and Muslim nations in the...
Date of source: Monday, February 20, 2006
A review of articles in the Egyptian press on the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, examining the effect of the demonstrations across the Muslim world on Egypt’s tourist industry and suggestions that governments in Islamic countries have encouraged angry opposition to the cartoons to vent...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Muslim cleric Mustafa Kāmil, otherwise known as Abu Hamza al-Misrī, was sentenced by the Old Bailey Tuesday to seven years in jail after being found guilty of soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred during sermons to his followers.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 14, 2006
In this article the author is arguing that both the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamās have never got rid of their radical discourses. He believes that the ideology of Hamās would not guarantee a decent life for the ordinary Palestinian citizens or rescue them from the poverty, unemployment and...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 14, 2006
The author argues that the characters in Nobel laureate Najīb Mahfouz’s novel Awlād Hāritnā strongly represent those of the 1952 revolution and its incidents and shifts, contrary to the notion that it has represented certain prophets and involved despising religion.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Authors in several newspapers are calling for appeasement in Arab and Muslim countries over the problem of the Danish newspaper’s cartoons, though many are still furious over the cartoons. A few authors do not consider boycotting Danish products a nice solution, while others propose that an...
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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.