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Date of source: Friday, December 7, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī addressed the people of Egypt in a speech in which he expressed his grief at the loss of innocent lives in the clashes which have taken place over the last two days. He emphasised that he has a duty to all Egyptians, regardless of their political affiliation or religion,...
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2012
President Muḥammad Mursī issued a constitutional declaration seeking retrials of former regime officials charged with murdering and attempted murdering of protesters.
Date of source: Friday, August 24, 2012
Egypt’s President, Muhammad Mursī issued a law Thursday (August 23, hours after the court decision) to bar detention pending the trial of defendants involved in offenses related to the media, which means canceling temporary detention even in crimes listed in Article 179 [Chapter 14] of the penal...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Father Morcos Zaghlūl Bolus, priest of the Virgin Mary and Martyr St. Girgis Church in Misrata (Musrātah), Libya, said that after great efforts of the church, together with the pastor of the St. Mina Church in al-Baydā – 200 km from Benghazi (Banīghāzī) – it remains unclear whether the seven...
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2012
According to presidential decree no. 11 of 2012, decree no. 350 of 2012 by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) dissolving the People’s Assembly, the lower house of the two-chamber Egyptian parliament, is repealed.
The decision also included a call for holding snap elections within 60...
Date of source: Sunday, July 1, 2012
In a symbolic military parade in the Central Zone in al-Hāykstib area, the armed forces on Saturday (June 30) officially handed over power to Mursī as the first elected non-military president in sixty years.
The ceremony was attended by Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and Chairman of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The President-elect also received Public Prosecutor Dr. ‘Abd al-Majīd Mahmūd and members of the judicial bodies and the High Judicial Council.
Mursī’s political advisor Ahmad Dayf, for his part, said that the new president will use the strategy of including all segments of society and appointing a...
Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2012
Shātir, in a report published The Washington Post’s David Ignatius on Tuesday (June 12), expected tensions in Egypt if Shafīq wins the presidential election, adding Egypt has to smoothly move to a new system or expect the worst. [Sāmih Lāshīn, Muhammad Fū’ād and Rāmī Yāsīn, al-Ahrām, June 17, p. 9...
Date of source: Sunday, May 27, 2012
“The Muslim Brotherhood has always been against the revolution while the Salafists have always been rejecting revolts against rulers…black flags were raised in the sit-in of al-‘Abbāssīyah a couple of weeks ago to indicate that al-Qā’idah entered Egypt, which has not taken place so far. However, al...
Date of source: Sunday, May 27, 2012
Meanwhile, Dr. Kamīl Siddīq, the secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Millī Council in Alexandria, denied that all Coptic votes went to candidate Ahmad Shafīq, adding the majority of their votes went to Hamdīn Sabbāhī.
He also denied that the church has directed its congregation to elect a...
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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.