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Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 14, 2001 to الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 20, 2001
A sheikh, who worked for ten years in Germany as a teacher, and learned "Al-Higama" [scarification, his method of "treatment" teaches people how to treat themselves in this way. He does not take any fees for his practice. Instead he sells the visitors two audio tapes and a booklet explaining Al-...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 11, 2001
General Fou’ad Allam, security expert, believes that a number of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders excluded Prof. Youssef Al-Qardawi from being the next General Guide of the Brotherhood. The reason behind this is his criticism of their terrorist activities before the 1952 revolution and his support of...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 4, 2001
"Be Thou There" is a new book on the trip of the Holy Family through Egypt. It is an important contribution to the history of the Holy Family, and generally to the Christian heritage in Egypt. The three writers of the book and its editor are specialists in Christian archaeology, Egyptian religious...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 4, 2001
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom asked President Bush to raise religious-freedom issues with President Mubarak during the latter’s state visit to the United States. The request follows the return of a Commission delegation from a visit to Egypt.
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 1, 2001
Dr. Rafiq Habib is a Coptic intellectual who refused to meet with the American delegation for International Religious Freedom. He believes that the delegation tries to force what they call religious freedom, allowing American missionaries to work in Egypt to convert Muslims and Orthodox Copts to...
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 1, 2001
The author believes that viewing foreign intervention in the Egyptian affairs as nothing but a conspiracy against Egypt and its people is a deluded view and an adoption of an unjustifiably defensive, isolationist position. He explains that his decision to meet the commission arose from a patriotic...
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 3, 2001 to الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 6, 2001
The hair cover of the Muslim woman has different shapes and several names that have to do with the local cultures rather than the rules that had been set by the Islamic Shari’a [Islamic law]. Wearing the hijab [hair cover] is still one of the controversial issues in the Islamic world. This...
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 25, 2001
The Bishop of Benha and Quweisna asked the Governor of Qalyubiya to give a permission for restoring the church of the Holy Virgin and the Archangel Gabriel. A permit, ratified by the governor, was issued approving the restoration and the building of a four-story building to be used for social...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 28, 2001
Bishop Yo’annes visited Jersey City and asked the people in a general meeting to meet president Mubarak in a nice way when he comes here in the States. Unfortunately, some people became very angry and refused all what the pope secretary was trying to say.
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 22, 2001
Saad Eddin Ibrahim said that because he is currently being tried before Egypt’s Higher State Security Court on charges which include his lectures and writings on religious freedom and minority rights, including those of Egyptian Copts, his defense lawyer requested him to decline the invitation to...
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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.