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Date of source: Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Armored security patrols are in place to secure all of the troubled Egyptian city of Rafah, said a military source, adding news reports about a shooting attack on a Copt’s house on Saturday (October 6) were bare of truth.
Date of source: Saturday, July 21, 2012
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the Egyptian Constitution of 1971 reads, “Islam is the official religion of the state, Arabic its official language and the principles of Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation”. Salafists sought removing the word ‘principles’ or replacing it with the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces gave political powers and parties 48 hours to agree on key standards to form a constitution-drafting panel as a meeting held by SCAF Chairman Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī on Tuesday (June 5) with politicians saw differences over issuance of a...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Amidst tension overshadowing the political scene, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is meeting Tuesday (June 5) with parties represented in parliament as well as some independent lawmakers to discuss means to form a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution.
Members of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The pope’s body was carried by a military aircraft to Wādī al-Natrūn to be buried at the Bishop Bīshūy Monastery, where he used to seek reclusion.
Clad in their bulbous black miters, more than 110 bishops members of the Holy Synod in and outside Egypt as well as 500 priests, foreign delegations...
Date of source: Sunday, April 22, 2012
Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī, Chairman of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), said that the army does not back a certain candidate for the presidency, pledging to "sail the nation through to safety, hand over power to an elected civil president and support drafting a...
Date of source: Sunday, January 22, 2012
Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī, Commander-in-Chief and Chairman of the ruling caretaker Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), issued a decision on Saturday (Jan. 21) appointing ten People's Assembly members, which is starting its maiden session on Monday (Jan. 23).
The list includes...
Date of source: Sunday, May 5, 2013
Colonel General 'Abd al-Fattāh Khalīl al-Sīsī, Commander-In-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Minister of Defense and Military Production and Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, sent a congratulatory cable to Pope Tawadros yesterday (May 4) bestowing his Easter greetings upon the...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī, commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, met with Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III at the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
They both agreed to put the nation’s interest first during the current period. Tantāwī assured the pope that they...
Date of source: Saturday, August 13, 2011
A month and a half ago, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) instructed the government to draw up the principles for selecting the panel that will formulate the constitution, and release these principles as a constitutional declaration after political powers have approved them, Mamdouh...
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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.