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Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 28, 2014
The interview took place at the residence of the bishop in Six October City on December 10, 2013. The interview was entirely in Arabic and was transcribed and translated into English.
Interviewers: Cornelis Hulsman and Jayson Casper
Transcribed by: Ahmad Deiab and Raafat Nabil
Translated by: Ahmad...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 29, 2013
One of the greatest horrors that can befall a family is the sudden disappearance of their child. No country in the world could doubt such tragedy. Why then does controversy surround Coptic minors?
There are two prominent reasons, and both relate to the contested sectarian nature of Egyptian...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 27, 2013
Rev. Safwat al-Bayādī, president of the Protestant churches of Egypt, believes the amended constitution submitted to Egypt for referendum January 14-15, is 85 percent positive. As one of the fifty committee members, he described his experiences, both positive and negative, to Arab West Report on...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 16, 2013
On May 16, 2013, Arab-West Report was able to interview a former security advisor for the government in North Sinai, who preferred to stay anonymous. A general in the army, his posting began in 2005 and lasted until November, 2012, when he resigned in disagreement with the Mursī administration for...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 14, 2014
Among the key components in the 2013 amendments to the Egyptian constitution is the role of religion, and few are better placed to judge than Muhammad ‘Abd al-Salām. A judge and the legal consultant to the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmad al-Tayyib, Salām served as one of three Azhar representatives...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 12, 2014
‘Ādil Mājid is the vice-president of the Egyptian Court of Cassation, the nation’s supreme judicial body. He is an expert in international criminal law and anti-terrorism, and currently serves as special advisor to the Islamic Criminal Justice Project at Durham University in the United Kingdom,...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 8, 2015
After a halting, stilted walk to receive me at the gate of the Zamalek Club, where he has become a near-celebrity, Husām al-Massāh opened our meeting with bombast.
“I have no party except the Egyptian Party!”
“I am a Coptic Muslim!”
“I was worth ten men on the committee!”
His verbal exuberance...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 26, 2014
Mirvat al-Tallāwī is head of the National Council for Women and one of the fifty members of the committee to amend the 2012 constitution. After originally suggesting 20 names to the president hoping for a one-third female composition, the council received a note back asking this to be narrowed down...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 26, 2014
The last thing Dr. Nadia Mustafá wanted to talk about on December 9 was the constitution. Enraged at the military coup which deposed President Mursī and mournful over the deaths of so many of his supporters, the constitution is as illegal as the current government which produced it.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 16, 2014
On Friday, November 29, an article appeared in al-Fath, an independent Salafī newspaper, written by reporters Tāriq Bahgat and Walīd Mansūr. [1] The article reports on the discussion that took place between Bishop Bola, the representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the Constituent Assembly,...
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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.