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Date of source: Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Pope Tawāḍrūs II on Monday (November 19) received a delegation of the Popular Current alliance led by its founder, former presidential candidate Ḥamdīn Ṣabbāhī, who stressed his respect for the role played by the church and the Azhar in the protection of moderation in the Egyptian society
Date of source: Thursday, November 1, 2012
Hamdīn Sabbāhī, the founder of the Egyptian Popular Current and former presidential candidate, called for keeping intact the text of Article 2 as it read in the 1971 constitution, adding the text guarantees the implementation of the Islamic sharī’ah as a main source of legislation and in the same...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Counselor Tahānī al-Jibālī, Vice President of the Supreme Constitutional Court, warned that the texts relevant to the court in the draft constitution are only a "serious setback posing a threat to the independence of the court" and disclose "attempts to devastate the court from within".
Date of source: Monday, October 22, 2012
In an attempt to appease the tense atmosphere in the village of Banī Hassan al-Ashrāf, al-Minya governorate, a 'urfī (informal) conciliatory session was held in coordination with security agencies to settle sectarian unrest between two Coptic and Muslim families. [Teresa Kamāl and 'Alā' Sarhān,...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
“The roundtable meeting invitation by the U.S. embassy in Cairo with Clinton was extended to Christian figures to discuss the status of Christians in Egypt. However, I, as an Egyptian politician, am ready to discuss issues of citizenship and human rights with Egyptians on national grounds but I...
Date of source: Sunday, August 26, 2012
There have been mixed reactions to the calls to “overthrow the Muslim Brotherhood” yesterday (August 25) and the day before yesterday (August 24). Muhammad Abū Hāmid, former Member of Parliament [??for what party??] and one of the advocates of the demonstrations, announced that three million people...
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.