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Date of source: Tuesday, March 31, 2020
“Imagine you enter a war and you capture some of the enemy’s soldiers. Those captured have now become your prisoners and one of them has a heart attack. Will you let the person die or take him to hospital? Law, religion, and humanity oblige you to take the suffering person to a hospital and safe...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
ʿAlāʾ al-Aswānī grew up in a family with a history of national struggle and a good education that made him a skilled computer programmer. Like millions of young people in Egypt, he dreamed of democratic change. In 2005 he created a blog in his name and his wife Manal which called for an end to...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Alaa points out that while Nagla Al-Imam is allowed to speak inappropriately about Islam and its prophet, Kamilia is denied the right to practice freedom of choice. He added that the Church is playing a double game of mobilizing Copts abroad and expressing absolute loyalty at home. The result, he...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Novelist and columnist Alaa al-Aswani looks back to the rejection of a Coptic quota in parliament when the Egyptian Constitution was signed in 1923, and laments how the Copts fortunes have developed in the subsequent 87 years with the rise of Salafism and Wahabism in Egypt. He reminds the reader...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
This article highlights some Western misconceptions about Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Dr. ‘Alā’ al-Aswānī narrates an example from his own life that proves to him that discrimination against Copts does exist in Egypt. He goes on to describe causes and examples of this increasing discrimination and urges Egyptians not to deny discrimination so that they might begin to combat it.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The author critiques what he views as widespread false religiousness in Egypt, and how this false display of belief is propagated and endorsed by the ruling regime.
Date of source: Sunday, November 13, 2005
‘Alā’ al-Aswānī presents four reasons for what he describes as the discrimination against Copts in Egypt.
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.