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Date of source: Sunday, April 1, 2018
Egyptian columnist Fāṭima Nāʿūt writes:
Dear reader, did you walk in the streets of Egypt yesterday and notice the vendors everywhere selling green palms, waiting to be braided? Did you park your car there to buy some palm leaves for your children so they can braid them and give them to their...
Date of source: Monday, June 26, 2017
That beautiful mosque no longer exists in Abu Dhabi. Its name has changed from The Mosque of Muḥammad Bin Zāyid to The Mosque of the Virgin Mary or the Mother of Jesus.
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2017
Thank you to the honourable al-Azhar, who finally responded to the demands of the President and the people – demands of truth, righteousness, beauty, and progress. Al-Azhar finally decided on the participation of the forces of enlightenment to confront the forces of darkness that promote hate...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 18, 2015
I saw the expression 'Coptic Invaders’ written on a sign lifted by a protestor in a demonstration in Aswan, September 2011, when ignorant extremists burned down the Church of al-Mārīnāb Bidfū. I approached the man holding the sign and told him "Listen my friend, your free in your choice to be evil...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 18, 2015
The Coptic Invaders
I saw the expression 'Coptic Invaders’ written on a sign lifted by a protestor in a demonstration in Aswan, September 2011, when ignorant extremists burned down the Church of al-Mārīnāb Bidfū. I approached the man holding the sign and told him "Listen my friend, your free in...
Date of source: Monday, September 26, 2011
The author, Fātimah Nā'ūt, a writer and poet, tackles the issue of a book allegedly authored by her and is spreading on several websites, which she described as yet another attempt to distort her name as well as other liberal writers'.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Fātmah Nā'ūt criticizes whoever disseminated a rumor about her that she converted to Christianity and she is ashamed to publicize this.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 21, 2010
The author begins her piece by referring positively to an Italian priest who has permitted Muslims to hold Friday prayers in a section of his church, justifying this by saying he seeks to strengthen relations between the religions.
She then compares this with what she calls the "unjust, stubborn...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
The author writes that when she heard that a three-story building in ‘Umrāniyyah had been converted into a mosque, she asked her newspaper editor if he would confirm this, which he did by sending a reporter there.
She comments on the strange timing and speed of converting this unfinished building...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Fātimah Nā‘ūt reviews a book entitled The Diaries of a Copt...One Who Belongs to this Country written by a young Egyptian Coptic journalist and caricaturist named Philip Fikrī. The book is a sarcastic work reflecting on the different social and political issues with an elevated sense of humor.
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.