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Date of source: Saturday, January 5, 2013
(Author’s note: Wafāꞌ Mustafá Mashhūr is the sole woman that topped the electoral list of the Muslim Brotherhood. She is the general director of the Islamic Dār al-Harā’ Schools in Asyut, married to Dr. Muhammad ‘Abd al-Jawwād, Professor at the Faculty of Engineering. A Bachelor of Art in Arabic...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Al-Misrīyun reports today that well-informed Church sources revealed that intensive contacts are running between the leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Shī'ah leaders in Egypt to unify their future "political" positions.
The sources, further, said that last year, and soon after Coptic...
Date of source: Thursday, January 17, 2013
The internal elections in the Salafī Nūr Party have triggered a stormy crisis within the party that has split it into two fronts, and eventually a new Salafī party, al-Watan Party, emerged.
After the announced establishment of al-Watan party, formed at the hands of Salafī leaders who have left the...
Date of source: Saturday, December 22, 2012
"I have not been able to go home for a month now." It is with this statement that Shaykh Muhammad 'Abdullah Nasr, coordinator of the group Azharians for a civil state and a Tahrir Square preacher, disclosed the chase launched against him by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and the Salafists. In an...
Date of source: Friday, December 21, 2012
Dr. Prof. Hilmī Muhammad al-Qā’ūd’s criticizes Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II’s decision to withdraw from the Constituent Assembly and the national dialogue sessions initiated by President Muhammad Mursī (Muhammad Hilmī al-Qā’ūd, al-Misrīyūn, Dec. 21, p. 8). Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Friday, February 1, 2013
After President Muhammad Mursī’s and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s talks in Germany on Wednesday January 30, the President met representatives of the Egyptian community at the Egyptian embassy in Berlin.
When asked on the curfew imposed on the Suez Canal cities, Mursī explained that although he...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced seven Copts to death in absentia for insulting Prophet Muhammad, defaming Islam, and harming Egyptian national unity. The capital punishment decision, which must be reviewed, has been approved by the Muftī of the Republic Egypt.
The pro-Islamist newspaper,...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 8, 2013
A large number of Coptic activists condemn the misleading American media outlets on one hundred thousand Copts migrating from Egypt in the aftermath of the January 25 Revolution. The Coptic activists comment that such news incites the public opinion against them; like other Egyptians who had left...
Date of source: Monday, January 28, 2013
Facebook pages yesterday (January 27) have been set up, introducing a new group calling itself Black Bloc, ”We are not thugs or saboteurs; we do not follow a party or any political movement. We are neither affiliated to the Church nor does the Church provide us with weapons, as Islamist militias on...
Date of source: Sunday, January 27, 2013
On Tuesday, January 12, the Coptic Catholic Church of Egypt will hold a ceremonial Mass to celebrate the appointment of her new Patriarch Ibrāhīm Ishāq. The Mass will be held in the Coptic Catholic Cathedral of Saint Mary in Nasr City, Cairo. [Author not mentioned, Watanī, Jan.27, p. 3] Read...
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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.