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Date of source: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
The article is an
interview with Samir Marcos, a [Coptic] social researcher and political thinker. Marcos present
his views on a number of important issues such as renewal of the religious discourse, the status
of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the establishment of religious political parties.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 17, 2004
As the Coptic fasting that precedes the Easter started on 16 February [it
continues for 55 days], the article gives information about fasting in Coptic Christianity, its
meaning and rules.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 24, 2004
The “secret division” or the military wing of the
Brotherhood was founded by Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. The secret
division was meant to defend it [the group] against competing parties and to counter the British
occupation of Egypt at the time. But Abdel Rahman El...
Date of source:
The article is an interview with Dr. Nadia
Mustafa, professor of International Relations, head of the Center for Political Research and head
of the Program for Dialogue between Civilizations at Cairo University. Dr. Mustafa admits our
society’s need for renewing the religious discourse and she...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 24, 2004
The story of the film “The Athirst [thirsty] Kiss”
is about a second generation Pakistani Muslim who falls in love with an English Catholic girl. I
believe the film’s realistic idea and its courageousness in conveying it is much stronger than
any dialogue between civilizations.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Chirac sees that his country has five million Muslims trying to congregate to remain in
isolation and reject France’s culture. What Chirac wants, as he read in his statement, is to
“prevent [groups from] clinging onto their affiliation to [their] groups that might threaten the
society by [these...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Saudi intellectuals preceded their Arab counterparts in submitting a number of collective demands to their government to effect political reform. The Saudi culture faces two main streams of thought: the reformist stream and the conservative stream, both cutting across the intellectuals and the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 30, 2004
The author of this article strongly opposes the article published in the
last issue in which Dr. Hassan Hefni called for forming political parties based on religion.
According to the author of this article, forming political parties based on religion is a
dangerous call that leads to the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Al-Qahera’s article “The middle stream in the Brotherhood calls for
dissolving the group,” published March 16, 2004 mentioned, that there are some members of the
Brotherhood who are calling for the dissolution of the group. That is not true. This great group
is not owned by any certain person,...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Intellectuals opposed the idea of forming a political party based on religion.
We
reject the Muslim Brotherhood initiative [for political reform] because it was issued by an
illegal group. The Muslim Brotherhood has remained in political life by force, and violence
constitutes a great part of...
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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.