Displaying 1 - 10 of 14.
Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2024
Ten years ago, extremists in the streets of Syria used to chant “Alawites to coffins and Christians to Beirut.” According to what people who escaped the Syrian turmoil to the Lebanese city of Zahlé on the borders with Syria have told me when I toured the area back in 2014, the chanting has evolved...
Date of source: Sunday, November 4, 2012
Sarah’s disappearance sparked a fuss in human rights circles after the Da’wah announced she has converted to Islam and married to 27-year-old Abū Zayd, but later the Salafī movement backtracked on its earlier statements and said it does not know her whereabouts.
Date of source: Sunday, June 29, 2014
The Fifth Conference on Coptic Assimilation ended yesterday in WashingtonD.C., headed by Magdī Khalīl, writer, analyst, and member of the board of directors of the Organization of Coptic Assimilation. The conference aimed to address the situation for minorities in societies worldwide, but in...
Date of source: Sunday, July 15, 2012
On the other hand, statements by lawyer Joseph Malāk, an Alexandrian Coptic activist, stirred arguments in Coptic and church circles after he announced that he had addressed the U.S. administration in Washington and the U.S. embassy in Cairo to ask for mediation with President Muhammad Mursī on the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 15, 2012
On the other hand, statements by lawyer Joseph Malāk, an Alexandrian Coptic activist, stirred arguments in Coptic and church circles after he announced that he had addressed the U.S. administration in Washington and the U.S. embassy in Cairo to ask for mediation with President Muhammad Mursī on the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 26, 2012
Coptic Orthodox Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah, Cairo, said that there have been 150 appeals in the Papal elections, mostly because of misspelling of names and the request for additional voting tables. Further, the candidate list for the Papal elections will be reduced to 17 names in two weeks...
Date of source: Sunday, November 10, 2013
“Middle East Christians are in danger,” stated Isām Yuhanna Darwīsh, the Bishop of Furzul and Biqā’, Lebanon. He stated that the West wants to divide the Arab world into mini states based on different sects and religions, which is said to secure the presence of Israel in the region (Hanān Fikrī, ...
Date of source: Sunday, July 10, 2011
Watanī newspaper has published a complaint by a Christian policeman of the name Midhat Hannā Jirjis, who lives in Banī Bakhīt, Beni Suef governorate and works for the Beni Suef Security Department.
In his complaint, Midhat says that he was accused of quitting his duty post one hour before his...
Date of source: Sunday, March 2, 2008
Hanān Fikrī reports on a conference organized by the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies [http://acpss.ahram.org.eg/eng/index_Eng.asp] in association with the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation [FEF, www.fes.de/] to discuss new challenges facing Copts’ citizenship.
Date of source: Sunday, March 23, 2003
Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim stressed that there is no relation between his acquittal and the war on Iraq and denied any political pressure behind the court ruling.
Pages
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.