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A vote by all members of parliament in Belgium in favor of a decision to impose a ban on the niqāb in public places, like parks and streets, triggered controversy as well as large-scale criticism by Muslims and human rights organizations. Some newspapers described the decision as a "...
Pope Shenouda meets with the defense counsel for the victims of the Naj‘ Hammādī massacre, as the defendant’s lawyers expressed fear the Pope might intervene in the course of the trial.
Jewish synagogues in Egypt boast a unique history and as Carmen Weinstein—chief of the Cairo-based Jewish Community—notes, Egypt has never ignored its Jewish antiquities. According to her, whoever calls for the synagogues to be sold because there are no longer any Jews in Egypt...
Modifications in Islamic school curricula have triggered recent controversy. Amidst claims that the change was the outcome of pressure from abroad, Muftī of the Republic Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘a emphasizes that the changes were meant to promote the spirit of tolerance in Islam.
Both Muslim as well as Christian clerics and intellectuals in Egypt are vehemently rejecting the idea of having Coptic students studying Muslim theology at the Azhar University.
Intellectuals are encountering a fierce campaign against a recent publication of A Thousand and One Nights [also known as Arabian Nights]. Lawyers have recently filed a lawsuit against publishers on the grounds that the book contains "a lot of obscene phrases which are considered...
Egyptian intellectual Nasr Hāmid Abu Zayd, who is likely to remain a symbol of the showdown between rationality and fundamentalism in Egypt, passed away on July 5, 2010 at the age of 67.
Khalīl highlights and analyzes the recent report of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights about sectarian violence in Egypt over the last two years.
‘Ākhir Sā‘ah published a file of the concept of God in the main religions and philosophies through are history.
The trial of the suspects in the Naj‘ Hammādī case has been postponed until May 16, 2010. The suspects’ defense express their dissatisfaction at the postponement of the trial.
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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.