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Date of source: Friday, September 3, 1999
Plans for a public protest in a refugee camp against the government crackdown on the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) were postponed indefinitely on Friday, according to Muslim Brotherhood sources. The Brotherhood sources said their movement intends to hold a meeting of the opposition parties,...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Jordan’s clampdown on the activities of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, is bound to put an end to complaints by the Palestine National Authority and Israel, diplomats and political analysts said on Tuesday.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 31, 1999
Police on Monday closed down the offices of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, in Amman, rounded up 12 of its members and issued arrest warrants against four of its leaders, official sources said on Monday.
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, says it plans to establish a new "national body" before year’s end to replace the Palestine Liberation Organization, which it describes as obsolete.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 31, 1999
Jordan is ready to relinquish its religious authority over Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem to the Palestinian National Authority, Prime Minister Abur-Ra’uf S. Rawabdeh has said.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 24, 1999
... In the name of our sisters, daughters and mothers who do not have any voice, in the name of those who this minute unjustly suffer different forms of violence and injury to protect honor, with no one to protect them and guarantee their human rights, we raise our own voices. We call for the...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 24, 1999
Jordanian intellectuals and human rights activists on Monday launched a nationwide campaign to collect thousands of signatures to stem crimes of honor in Jordan. The group of men and women, who form the National Jordanian Campaign Committee to Eliminate so-called Crimes of Honor, appealed to the...
Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 1999
A group of male and female activists plan to launch a nationwide campaign next week to stem crimes of honor, a black mark on the country’s human rights record. Annually, around 25 women are reportedly killed in the Kingdom in so-called "crimes of honor" - a term used to describe the murder of a...
Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 1999
The anti-normalization committee of the 14 Jordanian professional associations expressed concern on Wednesday about complaints of alleged visits by right-wing Jewish groups to the Jadour Mosque in Salt and said it considers it a desecration of the religious site. Ali Abu Sukar, the committee’s...
Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 1999
The Israeli army said on Friday it had arrested seven members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Group on suspicion of shooting at Israelis in the West Bank. An army statement said the seven formed a cell of the military wing of Islamic Jihad but did not say when or how they were arrested. They were...
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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.