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Date of source: Sunday, July 10, 2005
Complaints against the Civil Register Authority keep coming in. Watani readers are still writing to us about mistakes in the new computerised identification papers issued by the Civil Register, and the subsequent defiant, arrogant, uncooperative attitude adopted by the civil register clerks who...
Date of source: Sunday, June 19, 2005
Watani has been closely following the draft unified law for building places of worship, now under consideration by Parliament. The law was proposed by Mr Mohamed Guwaily, and was referred by the Speaker of the Parliament, Mr Fathi Sorour, to the parliamentary committee for suggestions and...
Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2004
Another virtual pressure vessel in the Beheira village of Abul-Matameer, west of the Delta, is on the verge of blowing up. Article about Wafā’ Costantine.
Date of source: Sunday, December 5, 2004
The long pent – up in Assiut finally exploded last week. For anyone close to the events, this came as no surprise. In fact it was bound to happen as long as religious discrimination was left unchecked, allowed to spread without the slightest attempt at any correction or cure, and as long as...
Date of source: Sunday, November 28, 2004
To start with I ask my friend Dr. Nabil Sharaffeddin’s permission to borrow from a title he used for an article printed in Watani last October. The article was entitled “Tales from Najaa al-Nassaara” (Egyptian colloquial for Upper Egyptian hamlets –Najaa-the majority of whose inhabitants are...
Date of source: Sunday, November 21, 2004
Why- during courtesy visits with State officials- Church ’officials refrain from raising questions of church grievances or problems that have been placed on hold by these same authorities? The problems of churches thus stretch out, unsolved, to span decades-in sonic cases extending over half-a-...
Date of source: Sunday, December 29, 2002
A comparison between Coptic Christmas before and after President Musbarak´s decision that January 7 is a national holiday. The author expresses the hope that this decision will revive the motto “Religion is for God and the homeland is for us all.”
Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2002
A Muslim woman who converted to Christianity expressed the author her wish to tell her story to all people. Sidhom told her that people who make their conversion stories public face hard time. However, since the state-owned Nile TV channel started to broadcast a program presenting cases of people...
Date of source: Sunday, November 3, 2002
Ramadan is not only a religious landmark. It is a social event that reflects the love which harmonises the hearts of both Muslims and Copts. Among the social activities closely related to Ramadan are the “gatherings of love” in which Muslims and Christians gather for iftar (breakfast, the meal that...
Date of source: Sunday, October 27, 2002
Youssef Sidhom printed in March an article written by the Saudi Prince Talal Bin Abdel - Aziz on the importance of The Survival of Arab Christians, and was criticized for this by a reader who presented him an article with a list of examples of how Christians are treated in Saudi Arabia.
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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.