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Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 25, 2013
Miscellaneous
Some teachers in al-Thaghr Preparatory School in the Village of Burj al-Burulus in Kafr al-Shaykh have enforced the hijāb (head veil) in the school. Those who refused to wear it were asked to transfer from the school. This led a number of parents to submit a complaint to the Education...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 25, 2013
Attacks against Copts
Bishop Silwanis, the caretaker of the Virgin Church in Diljā, stated that 5 Coptic families have returned to the village after they were evicted from it. He said that the total number of Coptic families evicted numbers at about 150 families. The bishop stated that the general...
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 30, 2013
The security forces in North Sinai have arrested the main suspect in the burning of Mār Girgis Church in al-‘Arīsh (Author not mentioned, al-Akhbār, Sept. 30, p. 3). This article has no link online.
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 30, 2013
The North Giza prosecution has ordered the detention of 15 defendants for 15 days pending investigations accusations of their involvement in the Kirdāsah police station massacre. Nasrī al-Zaynī, a member of the Salafī Jihadists, stated that he attacked a church as a form of “Jihad for God”. “This...
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 30, 2013
One of the cars that was parked in front of the Virgin Mary Church in ‘Umrāniyah has caused a scare after a rumor spread that it might be explosive. A group of explosives experts have arrived at the area and checked the car, which turned out to be empty (Minnah Ibrahīm and Ahmad Shūbash, al-Wafd,...
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 30, 2013
A bomb has exploded in the vicinity of the Latin Church on Paradise Street in Suez, which has caused much fear among pedestrians and inhabitants (Author not mentioned, al-Dustūr, Sept. 30, p. 5). This article has no link online.
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 30, 2013
After 33 months of suspended relations, Dr. Shawqī ‘Allām, the Grand Mufti of the Republic shall visit Pope Francis I, Pope of the Vatican. Participating in a peace conference, he will hand him a letter from Dr. Shaykh Ahmad Al-Tayyīb, Shaykh of Al-Azhar. The letter welcomes the resumption of...
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 19, 2013
Coptic activist, Sharīf Ramzī, stated that the intervention of the security forces in order to eliminate the terrorist groups and end the state of insecurity in places such as Diljā and Kirdāsah is necessary. He stated also that it is important to eliminate the sources of extremism through...
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 19, 2013
The prosecutor general, Judge Hishām Barakāt, has ordered the imprisonment of 51 defendants for 15 days pending investigations due to possibilities of their involvement in crimes of murder, arson, and terrorist activities in Diljā village, Minya governorate. The prosecution has also ordered the...
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 20, 2013
In an interview by Al Wafd newspaper with Samīr Ghatās, the president of the Middle East Forum for Strategic Studies, he stated that the U.S. position pertaining to the Christians in Egypt is flawed with double standards. He said that previously it was not acceptable if the glass of a church was...
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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.