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Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 6, 2010
Azhar Grand Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyib has decided to postpone the press conference that was previously announced for yesterday.
Instead, a joint statement between Muslims and Christians will be issued in response to the American report on religious freedom in Egypt. The response is expected to say...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 29, 2010
Egyptian Islamist thinker Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā insists that Egypt is an Islamic country, saying that people who want to change the second article in the Egyptian consitution are insignificant.
In a meeting of the Egyptian Association for Culture and Dialogue in Rāb‘ah al-‘Adawiyyah, al-‘Awwā...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 20, 2010
Islamic thinker Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā has criticized certain media’s treatment of the lives of the Sahābah, alleging that some in the press are directing wrongful accusations at them.
He emphasized that defaming the companions of the Prophet Muhammad is not permissible and, furthermore, that it...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 20, 2010
In an interview with al-Wafd, the official spokesman for the Egyptian Catholic Church, Father Rafīq Greish, said that former U.S. President George W. Bush is responsible for the Sayyidat al-Najāh Church massacre in Iraq because it is one of the consequences of the President allegedly destroying...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 13, 2010
Ramzī Zaqlamah discusses whether determining the specific number of Copts in Egypt is important. He says an accurate number does not exist because Copts tend to over-count and Muslims usually tend to under-count, wrongfully linking population numbers with rights and duties towards the nation. He...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 10, 2010
The Director of the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, Dr. Ikrām Lam‘ī, talks to Al-Dustūr on subjects of controversy between the Orthodox and Protestant churches of Egypt. He blames fitnah tā’ifīyah on the Orthodox Church and the Azhar and claims that if it weren’t for the Protestant...
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 27, 2010
As‘ad compares Bīshūy’s comments about Egypt being originally Coptic to Zionism, and his comments about the Qur'ān’s distortion to the American Pastor’s mass Qur'ān burning. He says that Bīshūy’s comments are not only offensive to Muslims, but to anyone who believes in freedom of religious belief....
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 27, 2010
In a seminar organized by the Egypt Institution for Culture and Dialogue, Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā said that he would like the government to stop publishing the population census according to sects because he says some people manipulate parts of the data, particularly the number of Copts in...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 25, 2010
Over the last several weeks, controversial remarks by Bishop Bīshūy of Damietta and Islamic thinker Dr. Salīm al-‘Awwā have filled the pages of the Egyptian newspapers. AWR Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman provides a recap of the events....
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 25, 2010
The Ministry of Endowments cancelled a lecture by Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā yesterday at the al-Nūr mosque in ‘Abbāsiyyah, Cairo. The reason behind the cancellation was that the ministry fears al-‘Awwā might once again make controversial comments such as those made when he was responding to...
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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.