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Date of source: Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Renowned writer Usama Anwar Okasha, in
an interview with an independent weekly newspaper, dwelt on the reasons why he declined to
venture into historical figures in the scripts he wrote for TV series.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 13, 2004
The article provides an ideological analysis of a violent
conflict that flared up between the administration of the faculty of education and students who
describe themselves as the Group of the Islamic Voice. The author criticizes the extremist
practices of students affiliated with the Islamic...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 13, 2004
The article is an
interview with Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi, former dean of the faculty of Usul Al-Deen [fundamentals
of religion] of the Azhar University and member of Islamic Research Institute. The interview
focuses on the report titled “Renewal of religious discourse” released by the Religious...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 20, 2004
The author
mentions examples from Islamic history and the Qur’an showing the good relations between the
Prophet Muhammad and Christians. In light of these examples, he argues that Christians should not
be called "citizens," because the word does not tackle the religious part or the duties of...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 20, 2004
The Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates the Epiphany on January 20. The writer gives a brief
historical and religious background on the different ways of celebrating the feast.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 27, 2004
The article is about a research discussed during the second Saudi National dialogue
Conference held in Riyadh a few weeks ago. The research is on the role of curricula of Sharia
sciences in Saudi public schools in promoting religious extremism and the culture of violence
against non-Muslims and...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 27, 2004
The
article is an interview with Dr. Reverend Ekram Lama’i, pastor of an Evangelical Church in
Shubra, and a professor at the Evangelical Theological Seminary. Rev. Dr. Lama’i, who is also the
author of many important books about religion, the religious discourse and Zionist penetration of...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 3, 2004
The article is the second part of an
overview of a study made by two Saudi researchers in order to introduce it in the second National
Dialogue Forum held in Riyadh a couple of weeks ago. According to the study and its authors, the
religious curricula in Saudi Arabia exaggerate in accusing other...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 3, 2004
The article reports about Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, an Egyptian
Imam living in Spain who was sentenced to jail and fined 2,160 Euro by a Spanish court. Mustafa
is accused of publishing a book in which he says that punishing a disobedient woman should be
done through light beating.
The court...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights [EOHR] called on President Mubarak,
in a recent statement, not to ratify the rulings issued by the State Security Court, or
“emergency courts,” in what is known as the Izderaa al-Adyan case, or the blasphemy case. The
statement expressed 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.