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Judiciary independence and national pride are dominating the Egyptian reactions to the US threat
to cut aid to Egypt on protest to the seven-year imprisonment sentence given to Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Ibrahim’s American
wife says that the crisis will be solved in Egypt without American pressure.
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National pride has led Egypt to
strongly criticize the American decision to freeze additional foreign aid to Egypt in protest of the prosecution of
human rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Observers believe the decision is an effort to influence Egyptian
policies.
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A Jewish French group has brought an action against
Al-Ahram and its chief editor Ibrahim Nafie over an article by writer Adel Hammouda, which the group claims is anti-
Semitism. Nafie believes that this is an attempt to frighten intellectuals.
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The trial of the head of Ibn Khaldoun center, professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim, and his 27
assistants, has been postponed to 20 January 2001 in order to enable the defense to study the documents of the
case.
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A new episode in the case of the jailed professor, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, has been
revealed in the local media of this week. An employee in a department of his center accused him of corruption,
while his family threatened to halt their collaboration with the State Security department. At the same...
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Swift intensive efforts were made this week to contain a Muslim-Christian crisis due to a
blasphemous article, by
a Muslim writer, about a former monk. Thousands of angry youths protested against
the article, the Government was
accused of being in collusion with the paper, Pope Shenouda...
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Mamdouh Mahran, chief
editor of the weekly al-Nabaa, claimed that a former Coptic monk had
practiced prostitution inside the
church. Mahran was highly criticized in Egyptian media and was
accused of
damaging national unity. His
article provoked angry protests by Copts in Assiut and in the main...
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Asharq al-Awsat
revealed that the American consul visited Ibrahim in the prison’s hospital and
relieved his worry. He
promised Ibrahim that the American embassy would take care of his case in his capacity as an
American
citizen. al-Musawwar and al-Ah...
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Saad Eddin
Ibrahim’s lawyer presented a demand to release Saad Eddin for
health reasons. Lawyers and intellectuals are also
considering making a request to President Mubarak to
stay the execution of the prison sentence. Officials
demonstrated a positive sign to easing the crisis when
they...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 30, 2001
The return of the four Christian girls from Malawi ended the rumors that they were kidnapped and raped by Muslim extremist groups in order to force them to turn to Islām.
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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.