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Date of source: Sunday, March 23, 2008
Yūsuf Sidhom berates the continuing examples of extremism that exist in Egypt and details the story of a Bahā’ī student who has been prevented from sitting her Islamic religion exam.
Date of source: Sunday, March 16, 2008
The article takes up the issue of a gas station that is being built next to the electric transformer that supplies a town with power. In the article Sidhom comments on the dramatic turn around in the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company’s stance toward the issue
Date of source: Sunday, March 9, 2008
Sidhom discusses a draft personal status law that the church presented to the Minister of Justice and laments the fact that executive and legislative authorities procrastinate so much when it comes to Christian or Coptic concerns.
Date of source: Sunday, March 2, 2008
The article discusses a dispute between inhabitants of two hamlets and a local landowner over the course of a water pipeline.
Date of source: Sunday, February 24, 2008
The author comments on two recent court rulings concerning freedom of belief. One concerns Christians who converted to Islam and then back to Christianity and the other gives Bahā’īs the right to leave the religion box empty on ID cards.
Date of source: Sunday, February 17, 2008
The article describes al-Rihab, a satellite town in New Cairo. The author was angered to discover that there are plans to built a gas station next to a power plant and believes that actions should be taken to stop the gas station from going ahead.
Date of source: Sunday, February 10, 2008
A university student suffered when he was caught up in a dispute between two university faculty members.
Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2008
The article discusses the flaws in the education system in Egypt. The author believes that concerns about education are divided into two camps; those that are worried about the physical and logistical aspects of the problem and those that are more worried about the educational process. The author...
Date of source: Sunday, January 20, 2008
The article discusses the two year old case of a student at Minya University who was discriminated against and the university did nothing to resolve the issue. In an unprecedented move the head of department then handed in his resignation as a sign of his outrage toward the university.
Date of source: Sunday, January 13, 2008
A student who graduated from Assiut University in 2006 hoped to be offered a permanent position at the university but the university decided not to appoint him. Moreover, when he applied to do a PhD he was told that he had been rejected because there were not enough supervisors. The author of the...
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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.