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Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 1999
The author relates two different versions of the accident which happened on Friday July 23, 1999 involving a truck and two buses carrying young people from Mar Girgis Church in Heliopolis in which many of the bus passengers died. He asks what will happen regarding the department which issued the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 25, 1999
Concerning what was published about the small village called "Rizqat Al-Deir Al-Muharraq", the manager of the Public Relations Department at the governor’s office sent a letter in order to respond to the request of the people. He claimed that the villagers have no right to be provided with the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 18, 1999
The result of the article published in July 4 under the title " A tent inside his land" was the following: First, the owner of the previously mentioned land was subjected to another attack. Second, the owners were offered unfair settlement.
Date of source: Sunday, July 11, 1999
The villagers of this small (mainly Christian) village have been living all their lives in the properties of the country. They have been paying taxes in return for using them. The problem is that these people are asking for clean water, but the governmental officials refuse to provide them with it...
Date of source: Sunday, July 4, 1999
In this series illegal appropriation of lands in Upper Egypt, we can add the case of the farmer Sameh William Elea. He is the owner of two feddans, 14 qirats and 12 sahm. Last February 21 [1999], he was shocked when he found a man called Hashim Qassem with his two sons trying to appropriate a part...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 1999
I have received a letter from father Filipos Ibrahim Hanna in which he blames me for exposing all the negative sides of the things that the Christians are exposed to. He asked me to follow the principle of God in which He says that one must do this and do not leave that. By "that", he means that I...
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 1999
The problem addressed in this article is what happens in one of the most prestigious medical schools in the Middle east; Kasr Al-Aini, particularly in the "Gynecology and Delivery section". There is no right for Christian doctors to be specialized in this section. This oppression is a result of a...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 1999
I would like to express my heartfelt congratulations for Egypt hosting the meeting of "The International Council of the Wise". The author then discusses the experience of two Coptic women who, the author believes, had the right to promotion but didn’t get it.
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 1999
More cases of land being usurped from Christians and the responses of the authorities in these cases.
Date of source: Sunday, May 23, 1999
A reader writes in response to last week’s article asking why the construction of a church building is viewed as an illegal act. And this week the story of a police officer in the Giza Security who usurped a piece of land from a Christian in 1968. He has started to build a mosque on the land so...
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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.