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Date of source: Sunday, April 22, 2001
The American University in Cairo (AUC) has secured the sum of $ 1,000,000 for the endowment of a chair in Coptic studies. The income from the new endowment will fund visiting professors, who will offer courses as well as carry out research in Coptic studies.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Lawyer Mamdouh Nakhla filed a lawsuit against the Minister of Education, appealing against the minister not taking a decision concerning teaching Coptic History in schools.
Date of source: Sunday, July 2, 2000
Two years ago, Watani got to know that the Minister of Education agreed to compensate neglecting the Coptic history and civilization in history school books. However, the Pharaonic village gets ahead of the Ministry of Education in remembering the Coptic history. This remembrance is incarnated in...
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
On my last visit to Egypt, I noticed a genuine national revolution against religious fanaticism and terrorism, a revolution against exploiting religion that calls for love and peace. In Egypt we find love between neighbors and love of the unity of a nation in which equality in opportunities has...
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2000
The author argues that the non-implementation of the recommendations of the report by a special committee convened to look into the communal violence in Al-Khanka in 1972, the Al-Oteify report, led indirectly to the recent communal violence in Al-Kosheh, because the underlying issues were not...
Date of source: Sunday, November 28, 1999
Youssef Sidhom received a letter that Coptic studies are taught at the Cairo University as part of the history of the Byzantine era in the junior year for students of history. There are also subjects in Coptic language and antiquities taught in the Faculty of Antiquities and the Faculty of Arts....
Date of source: Sunday, November 21, 1999
Sidhom publishes a letter of Coptologist Dr. Gawdat Gabra who argues for the foundation of a Coptic Studies Department. He also describes the difficulties in obtaining this.
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 1999
The detailed [US] report on Egypt states that the Egyptian constitution ensures the freedom of belief and the right to exercise the religious rituals within certain limitations portrayed by the state.
Date of source: Monday, October 4, 1999
The Christian author believes the report can have serious negative consequences for Christians in Egypt. The first is that Christians will feel that America is their God Mother that protects them. The second is that Moslems will feel that America is interfering in their internal matters and thus...
Date of source: Monday, September 27, 1999
This Freedom from Religious Persecution Act gives America the right to interfere in diplomatic ways to the concerned governments and if a government does not respond, it is the right of the U.S. administration to impose any sanctions that it (the U.S.) sees fit. The author stresses that several...
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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.