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Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 27, 2003
The US Copts Association issued a press release on April 3 stating that its president Michael Meunier “will be addressing the U.N.” on the status of the Copts during the 59th session of the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. The formulation “addressing the UN,” sounded very big. Was...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 14, 2003
Father Marcos´ articles obviously are polemic. They are highly opinionated and inciting. Their obvious purpose was to show how bad Protestants are. Father Marcos is entitled to differ with Protestants on whatever subject he wants but not through taking information out of context and inciting the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 18, 2003
Michael Meunier, chairman of the US Copts Association, wants to see Copts in Egypt described as a minority. Many Egyptian intellectuals give a different definition of this concept and reject this.
Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 2, 2003
Michael Meunier and Sabri F. Gohara of the US Copts Association attack Father Marcos who had asked the Egyptian public to understand their position. Meunier’s attack aims at destroying Father Marcos’ credibility through presenting his character in the most negative way possible instead of focusing...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 9, 2003
An Egyptian army unit apparently made an effort to remove the wall of Patmos Land, a Coptic Orthodox project on the Cairo-Suez road. The incident renews the bishop´s fears that the wall will be removed after previous attempts to do this in the past years. The origin of the problems is in the wish...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 2, 2003
Arabs are continuously receiving information that seems to indicate that the US indeed launched a crusade against the Islamic world. Some of this material originated with Christian leaders and organizations in the US and was misinterpreted in some Arab media. It is dangerous to continue feeding the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 19, 2003
Egyptian authors show a continuous interest in discussions how to improve the Arab image in the West. This article was written on the request of Dr. Hamdi Hassan for Al-Ahram but not published. The article explains how Arabs can work on improving their image. They can do this IF they are realy...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 5, 2003
The translation of Henry Ford´s “The International Jew” into Arabic and publication by Al-Shorouq Publishing House will sadly hurt the image of Arabs in the West, as Ford´s book is unquestionable anti-Semite.
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 5, 2003
Bat Ye´or´s “The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam” is an example of polemical literature. The book, among other similar writings dominant in the West, shows that Islamic concepts are deliberately misrepresented in the West – which causes frustrations among Muslims. But much polemical...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 5, 2003
The rumors of US interference in Assiut probably started with an article titled "The American embassy occupies Assiut," Sout Al-Umma, April 28, 2003 [AWR week 17, art. 3]. The Sout al-Umma article is extremely negative and one wonders if not at least part of it is the consequence of rivalry between...
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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.