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Majdī Ḥussaīn of Islamist Publication al-Sha‘b on the 1996 publishing of How Muḥammad became Michael
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In May 1996, al-Sha‘b newspaper published a highly controversial article on how Muḥammad became Michael featuring the story of a Muslim who converted to Christianity by Dr. Muḥammad ʿAbbās, a prominent Egyptian author. The article allegedly accused the Christian community in Egypt of...
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Following the assassination attempt on President Muḥammad Ḥusnī Mubārak in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in June of 1995, the government launched a massive campaign of clamping down on Muslim Brotherhood members. Cornelis Hulsman along with Sunnī Khālid (NPR) sat down with Egyptian Islamist and...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 31, 2007
As President Mubārak called for the Constitutional amendments, leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood group attacked them as they mainly aim at preventing political Islamic groups come to power. On the other hand, the media have praised the amendments, showing the dangers of the Brotherhood to both...
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The president of the Labor Party dismissed Magdi Hussein, the editor-in-chief of
the now
closed al-Sha‘b paper, and other 10 members from the Party. The dismissed members represent the
Islamic trend in
the Party. The Muslim Brotherhood refused describing Shukri’s decision as a change in the...
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The frozen Labour party challenged the administrative procedures used to freeze it and
presented a list of 19 candidates for the next parliamentary elections, while a group of law activists
called for the
resumption of the party’s activities.
2. Labour party’s crisis takes
on new dimensions after the court’s invalidation of
the ban decision.
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The current crisis of the
frozen opposition party, al-Amal (Labour), entered a new stage after
the revocation, by the administrative
supreme court, of the ban imposed by the parliamentary committee of parties. There is a
high expectation of
a revival of the same party.
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The
consultative council (Shūrá) in
the Egyptian parliament decided, on July 24, to freeze the Islamic opposition Labour Party.
It filed an
urgent case before the Administrative Supreme Court to dissolve the Labour Party, and to see whether the criminal
charges, reported against 55 of the...
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The three weekly publications
ran simultaneous interviews with the
Sheikh of the Azhar, Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, who was angry about the accusation of
being away during the
strongest ever controversy in the Egyptian society, which was about the novel "A Banquet for
seaweed."
Date of source: Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Al-Qammāsh asks for President Mubārak’s mediatation to reissue al-Sha‘b newspaper, considering the six year ban on the newspaper sufficient punishment .
Date of source: Sunday, November 2, 2003
The article is an interview with some members of Al-Tahrir Al-Islami Party [Islamic Liberation Party]. Their main ideology is the establishment of the Islamic Caliphate. The party was founded in 1952 in Jordan by Taqi Eddin Al-Nabahani, a Palestinian. The interviewed members comment on 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.