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Date of source: Wednesday, July 9, 1997
The text is a summary of an article in AlAhram, Egypt’s most influential daily, in which the author argues that Israel and the USA are trying to create religious tensions in Egypt by targeting Islam. The author reports that a picture of the Prophet Mohammed as a pig on the Holy Qur’an came at the...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 30, 2019
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an American governmental commission monitoring religious freedom all around the world, claimed that in the last year Iranian state authorities stepped up repression of non-Shia Muslim, especially Sufi and Sunnite and other religious ...
Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2012
Jābir ‘Asfūr wrote an opinion piece in al-Ahrām calling for the rooting of the concept of a civil state. He continues that Egyptian intellectuals resorted to the civil state after seeing what the political Islam groups have done in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Muhammad Mukhtār Jum’ah, Minister of Endowments, decided to refer the Azharite attire in Iraq, Shaykh Faraj Allah al- Shāzilī, for investigation for making the call for prayers in the Shi’ite way which contradicts with the call of Sunnah.
Date of source: Thursday, April 24, 2014
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has stressed the importance of facing Islamic extremism worldwide. He also stressed the importance of having a Western revolution against Islamic radicalism in Iran and Afghanistan
Date of source: Thursday, March 6, 2014
A court in Iran has shut down the reformist newspaper ‘al-Bahār’ for a period of six months, and sentenced its editor-in-chief, S’aīd Būr ‘Azīzī, to 91 days in prison, for publishing an article that it claimed insulted the Imām ‘Alī. The article, written by ‘Alī Asghar Gharavi, was entitled ‘Imām ‘...
Date of source: Thursday, July 24, 2014
The annual sūfī Iftār was held at the headquarters of the ‘Azmiyyah tarīqah in the neighborhood of Sayyidah Zaynab yesterday. As well as the presence of several Sūfī sheikhs, there was also a diplomatic Iranian delegation present, under the supervision of Tawfīq al-Samdī, political advisor to the...
Date of source: Saturday, September 20, 2014
In an interview with “al-Watan”, Ahmad Karīmah, Professor at al-Azhar University, spoke about his recent ten-day trip to Tehran and the subsequent freeze of his membership in the High Commission of Islamic Affairs, from which he meanwhile consider to withdraw.
Date of source: Thursday, September 4, 2014
A visit of an Egyptian journalist to Iran has revealed the different ways the State of Iran incites against Egypt and insults it.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 24, 2014
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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.