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Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 16, 2012
Presidential candidate Ahmad Shafīq said Christians are full partners in the nation, pledging if he won the elections, he would choose a highly-efficient Christian woman as vice president to cover religion and sex in the same time. [Ashraf Sharaf and Sarhān Sinnārah, al-Akhbār, May 16, p. 5] Read...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 15, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb said the new constitution will of Egypt will add in its second article a phrase granting non-Muslims to have recourse to their own laws in matters of personal status. [Muhammad ‘Abd al-Khāliq, al-Ahrām, May 15, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 14, 2012
Copts’ concerns about the growing power of Islamists brought them to back candidates from the former regime like Ahmad Shafīq, the last prime minister in the Husnī Mubārak tenure, and ‘Amr Mūsá, the former minister of foreign affairs and former secretary-general of the Arab League, according to a...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 13, 2012
Ten days before Egyptians go to ballot stations to elect the first post-revolution president, eyes are set on voting blocs whose trends are going to be a decisive factor in the results. [Ahmad Rahīm, al-Hayāt, May 13, p. 5] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 11, 2012
Copts are partners in the nation for 14 centuries now and there will be no more discrimination between Muslims and Copts as both will be equal in the eye of the law, said presidential candidate Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā at the Mar Girgis Church in Kūm Hamādah, al-Beheira governorate on Thursday (...
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 12, 2012
Public business sector company Benzion said it is currently negotiating with some U.S. companies to export a photo of deceased Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III in his last farewell. [Muhammad ‘Abd al-‘Ātī, al-Misrī al-Yawm, May 12, p. 20] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 10, 2012
Presidential candidate Husām Khayr Allāh said if he won the elections, he would set up a ministry for Coptic religious affairs to regulate the building of churches and other pending issues suffered by Copts in Egypt. [‘Amr Jalāl and Mukhlis ‘Abd al-Haī, al-Akhbār, May 10, p. 5] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 9, 2012
Presidential candidate Khālid ‘Alī said he is not in favor of a unified law regulating construction of houses of worship due to conditions that might be proper for churches and improper for mosques, adding this law could give rise to sectarian troubles. [Shādyah Yūsuf, al-Ahrām, May 9, p. 4] Read...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 8, 2012
The bay'ah, or pledge of allegiance, inside the Muslim Brotherhood is not just a traditional ritual but rather a covenant and commitment. One of the most important means of going up the ladder of ranks in the group, the oath is not easy to be broken. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Misrī al-Yawm, May 8,...
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 7, 2012
A conference on president election criteria held by several Coptic organizations on Sunday (May 6) was marred by splits and squabbles after Dr. Sharīf Dūs, Chairman of the General Coptic Organization in Egypt (GCOE), expressed support for presidential candidate ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh. [‘Abd al...
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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.