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Date of source: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Last May, I wrote an article in this very place entitled "Copts…Please stand steadfast" when I recognized that many Egyptian Christians increasingly have the feeling that they have become strangers in their own country and that their lives are no longer secure enough.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Many people negatively judge the Coptic love and loyalty towards Egypt. They claim that the Copts are more comparable on the cultural and mood level to the Western Christianity than to Egypt and the Arab world. There is, for example, a tradition applied here up till now which is the absence of the...
Date of source: Friday, May 18, 2001
Sharīf al-Shūbāshī wonders in an opinion article in al-Ahrām whether it is logical to ask the party that first sparked a fire to put it down, referring to attempts to have salafists intervening to end the current sectarian crisis.
He said he has watched mind-boggling Youtube clips showing men,...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Sharīf al-Shūbāshī writes that the success of democracy depends on the success of secularism. Further, he says that secularism should not be thought of as necessarily opposing religion.
He added that the most serious lesson of human history is that "the marriage of politics and religion is vicious...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
The author says that Egyptian ruler Muhammad ‘Alī Pasha was truly the paragon of modern secularism in the East.
"There was creative interaction between his policies and the ideas of Rafā‘ah al-Tahtāwī, the bringer of the modern Arab renaissance," Shūbāshī writes
What then happened to have...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Sharīf al-Shubāshī talks about a conference organized by the Italian organization Community of Saint Egidius, which tries to build bridges of dialogue and understanding between people of different religions. He calls for the introduction of a new school subject that would teach interfaith dialogue...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
The author criticizes Pope Benedict XVI’s stance against Islam and Muslims and highlights the contradiction entailed in his claims which remind him of the negative image of Islam and Muslims prevailing in the West. Besides, the author points out that extremism is what makes the Copts in Egypt feel...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 18, 2000
UNESCO awarded Pope Shenouda III this year’s UNESCO Sing prize for tolerance. The Egyptian Ministry of Culture nominated Pope Shenouda for this prize which bears the name of the former Indian politician Sing.
Date of source: Saturday, January 23, 1999
A new book appeared in the French markets. It is dealing with terrorism and connecting it with the Islamic terrorism. The importance of this book is due to the importance of its author who is the head of the international observatory of terrorism.
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.