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Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 28, 2013
Unknown assailants set fire to a church in Nigeria, damaging the building and its contents. The recently-built church is the subject of some local controversy over the ownership of the land the church is built on (Author not mentioned, al-Yawm al-Sāb’, Feb. 28, p. 2). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 28, 2013
Four Copts and one Muslim were murdered in Burj al-‘Arab area in what appears to be a crime motivated by personal rather than religious reasons. The five victims were farm workers, who had apparently insulted, abused, and expelled from the farm a newly hired farm worker, Taha Mūsá. Mūsá has since...
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 28, 2013
The Administrative Court at the Council of State has repealed a Mubārak-era law relating to church building. Law number 291 from 2005 gave governors the authority to issue licenses to Christian religious communities regarding the building, expansion, refurbishment, or demolition of existing...
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 28, 2013
Abū Maqār Church (Saint Macarius Church) in Shubrā al-Khaymah witnessed a new crisis between Copts and Salafists opposed to the construction of a service or ceremonial building, affiliated with the church. Salafist groups have attacked the church and blocked construction workers. A representative...
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 27, 2013
Counselor Walīd Mas’ūd, head Burj al-‘Arab Prosecution Office, has ordered that the individual suspected of having killed five people in Alexandria be remanded under custody pending investigation. The suspect claims he was taking vengeance for their mistreatment of him (Shīrīn Tāhir, al-Wafd, Feb....
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 27, 2016
A report by Al-Misrīyūn stated that the idea of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) dates back to 1869, when French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed a miniature of a statue representing a woman with a torch and presented it to Khedive Ismā‘īl Pasha. The statue was...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 28, 2016
In a featured story on its website, Al-Misrīyūn wrote a profile about the former Egyptian Diplomat and Ambassador to Venezuela Yaḥia Nijm. Nijm was billed by activists and politicians as the "man of principles" as he stood against the constitutional declaration issued by the deposed president...
Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 23, 2016
Al-Misrīyūn news website published a featured story on the ordeal of the renowned Egyptian Academic Dr.ʿImād Shāhīn, Professor at Harvard University, who faces death sentence back in his homeland.
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 27, 2015
The year 2015 witnessed a number of initiatives and reconciliation attempts between the Muslim Brotherhood and the current regime in Egypt. However, the Egyptian Government did not respond to these initiatives, mainly because some of the initiators, despite declaring their good will, others...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 27, 2013
For the third time hundreds of protesters surrounded and blockaded a church that has been accused of converting, hiding, and smuggling a young Muslim young woman out of the country with a Coptic man. Stones and Molotov cocktails were thrown at the security forces and the church, and the police...
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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.