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Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 25, 2014
Coptic movements differed on taking part in the celebrations of the third anniversary of the January 25th 2011 Revolution. Some movements, such as the Maspero Youth Union stated that they are not participating in the events of January 25th, refusing to give a cover to the Muslim Brothers to take...
14. AWR Daily Overview, January 24, 2014: Reports: Hate crimes against Muslims in the West Increases
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 24, 2014
The number of hate crimes against Muslims have increased in the West in the past year. The new year started with weaknesses in the legal system that made it difficult tohold the wrong- doers accountable. The newspaper refers to an article on the Datehookup site which stated that anti- Muslim...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 23, 2014
Interim President Adly Mansūr met January 22 with his Holiness Pope Tawadros II, who headed a delegation composed of a number of bishops and members of the Coptic Orthodox Community Council. Ambassador Ihāb Badawī, the official spokesman of the president, stated that the Pope has congratulated the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 22, 2014
Najuīb Jubra’īl, the head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, requested in a letter to Interim President ‘Adly Mansūr to speed up issuing an anti- discrimination law. The new law is to forbid discrimination based on religion, language or ethnicity as per article 53 of the new...
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 12, 2014
A violent fight erupted between a Sunni and Shiite Muslim in the village of Zāwiyah Abū Musalam in Giza. Sunni Muslim Sālim Mahmūd accused his neighbor of practicing Shiite rituals, warning him against a repetition of the massacre that took place on June 23, 2013, costing the life of four Shiites...
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 18, 2013
Interim President Adlī Mansūr has issued a decree to put the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) on the Egyptian List of Terrorist Organizations and to put on trial everyone before a military court, who is proven a member of the organization. Furthermore, assets and offices of the MB inside Egypt shall be...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 20, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II stated that the Coptic Orthodox Church has a history of more than 2,000 years and that it is a purely Egyptian institution. He added that the Church remained purely Egyptian throughout these years (Majdī Fikrī, al-Dustūr, Nov. 20, p. 3). Read original text in...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 12, 2013
Calm returned to Dikhaylah district located west of Alexandria after clashes that lasted hours between a Coptic and a Muslim family due to a harassment of a girl. A Muslim man has verbally harassed a Coptic girl, which led her family to fight with him. The fight extended and became very violent...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 11, 2013
Amnesty International stated that the Egyptian security forces have failed to protect Copts in the aftermath of the dispersal of the sit-ins of Raba’ah and Nahdah on August 14. It stated that the attacks on 200 shops and houses of Copts as well as the attacks on 43 churches were unprecedented (...
Date of source: الاثنين, آب (اغسطس) 26, 2013
Bishop Makarios, General Bishop of al-Minya, confirmed again that Egyptian Copts will not seek refuge abroad and will not seek Western support despite the burning of a large number of churches. He said that he has not yet finished assessing the final losses. He stated that the retaliation of the...
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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.