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Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 29, 2010
A member of the Islamic Research Academy, Dr. Muhammad al-Mukhtār al-Mahdī, said that Azhar Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, received a phone call from the church requesting that he postpone the Academy’s meeting to discuss Bishop Bīshūy’s recent comments, but he refused to do so. Al-Mahdī denied...
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 25, 2010
The Islamic Research Academy holds an urgent meeting today to discuss Bishop Bīshūy’s offensive statements about the Qur'ān and Islamic faith. The group says that Azhar Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib is outraged by the statements. Dr. Muhammad Ra‘fat ‘Uthmān claims the reason behind the current...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2010
Egyptian blogger Dalyā Ziyādah says she won the Anna Lindh Euro-Med Prize for writing an article in English criticizing the large number of women wearing niqāb and blaming it on the Azhar. The article says that the Anna Lindh foundation is considered suspicious for its relations with Zionism and...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 25, 2010
Hundreds of Copts said goodbye to Pope Shenouda III yesterday before going on a medical trip to the United States. Dr. Tharwat Basīlī said that the Pope will be staying at a Cleveland hospital in Ohio for a week and that he might take the chance to meet Copts in the United States and help deal with...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 24, 2010
At the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, five thousand evangelicals from around the world--including sixty-five Egyptians headed by Dr. Safwat al-Bayādī--discussed various humanitarian and international topics including proselytization. Al-Bayādī said that Middle-Eastern...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 24, 2010
After being disbarred from the Syndicate of Lawyers for making offensive comments about God and the Prophet Muhammad, Maurice Sādiq, the head of the National American Coptic Assembly, accused the syndicate of anti-Semitism. He claims to have appealed to the American Lawyers’ Syndicate, the United...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 24, 2010
In response to the demonstrations against Pope Shenouda III, a number of Facebook users created a group called “electronic demonstrations” where they would meet every Friday at 2pm to express love and support for the Pope. The group's creators say the demonstrations against the pope are a threat to...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 23, 2010
A source at the Muslim Brotherhood Shūrá Council revealed to Al-Wafd that six parliamentary candidates were given the green light to run in Minya. The candidates are Bahā‘ ‘Attiyah, Dr. Muhammad Sa‘d al-Katātnī, Bakr al-‘Uylī, ‘Abd al-Rahīm ‘Abd al-Salām, Isma‘īl Tharwat ‘Abd al-Fattāh and Muhammad...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 23, 2010
Wafd Party member Rāmī Lakah (a Greek Catholic) said that his visit to Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral last Wednesday had nothing to do with the elections, but that he was just there to visit Pope Shenouda III. He said that the decision not to run for the al-Azbakiyyah district but to run...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 16, 2010
Head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Najīb Jibrā‘īl said Christian satellite channels should not broadcast material offending Islam. He also said that there is a media campaign urging governments in the Gulf to fire their Coptic workers, which are believed to number around one thousand.
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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.