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Date of source: Tuesday, April 13, 2004
We could of course blame the West for the escalating racism against Muslims in Europe and throw all the responsibility on them, but we would be deceiving ourselves. We could say that there has been no real effort to correct the negative “terrorist” image that is sticking to Muslims. This image is a...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Scholars agree that what religion asks of women is to cover all their body except their face and hands. The dress women should wear should not be tight on their body and should not be transparent. This is the dress code that we all agree on today. The Qur’anic verses concerning women’s dress do not...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
The religious, political and social covers are interwoven into a thick cover from three layers. The religious cover gives the political cover its legitimacy, and the political cover uses the religious cover to strengthen its base. The threat of the cover is that it could burst one day, if the...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
The late Dr. William Soliman Qilada has contributed a lot to the national dialogue by holding symposiums, conferences, studies and research projects. In all of his books and studies, his main concern was the idea or the principle of citizenship.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Sham En-Nessim is one of the few festivities that all Egyptians celebrate. The feast is targeted by Muslims as well as Christian fundamentalists who claim that the celebration is merely a made-up festivity, a bed’a [unorthodox teaching] that is hated.
The symbols of the celebration include water,...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
On March 9, 2004, the Egyptian people in general and the Coptic Orthodox Christians in particular celebrated the 33rd anniversary of the death of Pope Kyrillos VI, 116th Patriarch on the See of Saint Mark. His holy message was based on building individuals spiritually, and he said that the church’s...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Rome University and the American Research Center are in a dispute over repairs to the Red Monastery in the governorate of Sohag. The dispute lasted for a year. After that the two parties reached a compromise--the American Research Center will repair the icons and the drawings on the walls, while...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Bernard Lewis and Muhammad Emara are ideological adversaries; however, they both seem to agree that secularisms is alien to Islam and Muslims, and even more, it contradicts the principles of Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 4, 2004
Betsy Brian, an Egyptologist at the John Hopkins University, commented that the audience’s reactions to “The Passion of the Christ” is not related to the religious aspect of the movie, but is rather a reaction to a “horror movie” full of bloody scenes that attract teenagers and young audience.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 11, 2004
The Arab conquerors were tolerant toward the ancient Egyptian culture that was flourishing in the Alexandria Library. Arabs were tolerant with all the cultures of their time. They were very tolerant as long as it did not contradict the teachings of Islam. That is why the claim that the Arab...
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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.