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Date of source: Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Sectarian unrest took place between Muslims and Copts in the area of Mintāī, Shubrā al-Khaymah district, on Monday November 5 when local Muslim residents objected to the construction of a service building over a plot of land owned by Bishop Marqus, bishop of Shubrā al-Khaymah, seized the land...
Date of source: Saturday, June 9, 2012
Officer Ahmad Bahā’ al-Dīn of al-Qalyubia Security Department suspected a car parked in a dark spot, 50 meters away from al-‘Abd Mall in the city of Tūkh, on the agricultural highway, at 08:00 pm on Thursday (June 7).
It turned out that the car was boarded by Salafī legislator ‘Alī Wanīs of al-Nūr...
Date of source: Sunday, November 17, 2013
Banhā Criminal Court, headed by Counselor Mustafá Musharaf and the membership of Counselor Sayyīd Rifā’ī and Ahmad Zakī, decided to postpone the case of sectarian strife of al-Khusūs until a session on December 14. Defendants amount to 33 persons while the victims amount to 7 deaths and 22 injuries...
Date of source: Saturday, June 1, 2013
Judge Mustafá Musharaf will oversee the trial of 33 suspects at Banhā Criminal Court today (June 1, 2013), who are charged with instigating sectarian incidents at Khusūs. The suspects are accused of the illegal use and possession of weapons, the endangerment of public safety, the agitation of...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Additionally, Bishop Maximus stressed that the absence of citizenship in the most important cause of sectarian tensions. He demanded developments in education to aid tolerance and understanding (Salāh al-Wakīl, al-Wafd, May 22, p.2). Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Ahmad ‘Isá, Director of al-Khusūs Prosecution, ordered that the prime suspect in the violence of al-Khusūs, Najīb Samīr Iskandar, remand under custody for four days pending investigation into the murder of a Muslim man, Muhammad Mahmūd, which ‘allegedly’ led to the eruption of violence between...
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.