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Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
The Higher Council for Culture organized its first two-day symposium titled “Coptic Monuments of Egypt,” which was attended by many professors and research specialists. Abu Al-Hamad Farghali, a professor at the Faculty of Antiquities at Cairo University, explained that a large number of Coptic...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 2004
This study aims at examining the historical events that marked the relationship of Hassan Al-Hudaiby, the second supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, to the “Tanzim Al-Ekhwan” [the organization of the Brothers] that was led by the late Sayyed Qutb. The organization was uncovered in 1965. One...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Hussein Ahmad Amin did not see in the women’s wearing the veil any moral value that led her to do so. The veil is a reflection of those who wear it. It satisfies a human desire in those women and it benefits them. This issue needs pycho-social research.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 2004
During Lent in 1976, the restoration and enlargement of the church of St. Macarius at the Monastery of Abu Maqqar [St. Macarius], the relics of John the Baptist and Elijah were found next to the sanctuary of Pope Benjamin.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
The ideas of Sayyed Qutb were transmitted to the Muslim Brotherhood through the then-supreme guide Hassan Al-Hudaiby. Al-Hudaiby did not know that there were 300 young men studying Qutb’s ideas.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
The hijab is not related to the issue of faith and is not an asl [foundation] of the religion. Forcing a certain type of veil on women or forcing women to abandon it [the veil] violates the human freedom to choose their way of life.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
The Saudi public was shocked by the release of a statement signed by more than 200 heavyweight Saudi scholars and intellectuals, known to belong to the kingdom’s moderate trend. The statement warned against what they called the “Western liberal perspective” on social life that grants women’s issues...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 27, 2005
The verdict to imprison three journalists of al-Masrī al-Yawm contradicts the optimism about democratic reforms.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Dr. Moussa Hawamda, a
Jordanian poet, has become very famous in the last five years after the recent campaign against
his collection of poems My Trees Are Higher issued in fall 1999. Moussa Hawamda who was brought
before the Jordanian court five years ago and then sentenced to six months...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Jizya is an issue that needs to be discussed and
decided upon by religious scholars once and for all. It is unbelievable in this day and age that
some people still advocate taking Jizya from non-Muslims and humiliating them in the process.
Fortunately, some prominent scholars have taken the...
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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.