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Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2000
Seventy-four Copts are running for the coming parliamentary elections. In spite of this relative large number and in spite of the psychological support they are getting from the political leadership, their path is not furnished with silk. They are facing many problems and hard competition in the...
Date of source: Sunday, October 8, 2000
The issue of the representation of Copts in the parliament has been in discussion since the constitution of 1923. A proposal specifying that a certain number of Copts be present in parliament was rejected by Copts themselves. They used to reach parliament through direct elections, because the...
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2000
Subtitles: *Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour: We have contacted some public figures, some have declined due to the difficulty of the political game. *Dr. Refa’at Al-Said: Although we enjoy Coptic support, their number in the party is small, we will not stop to beg for nominees. *Diaa Eddin Dawoud: Their...
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2000
Al-Arabi got to know that the lists of the National Democratic Party (NDP) contain only three Copts.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 2, 2000
The coming Parliamentary elections carry the title "Copts in Parliamentary elections 2000". All the expectations confirm the increase in the number of participants either as candidates or voters in the coming elections.
Date of source: Sunday, July 23, 2000
This article gives an overall view of the history of Egypt, concentrating on the contribution of the Copts to the political and public life of Egyptian society, which varied depending on the type of government in power at each period.
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2000
The next parliamentary elections in Egypt will be the last chance for the government to establish a national coherence, and to renew trust in political reform. Copts are now more interested in political participation, as they became aware of the danger of their political isolation, so that the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 26, 2000
A short time before the visit of Mubarak to the USA a report of the American State Department for Foreign Affairs alleged that the Egyptian government is continuing its persecution of Copts in Egypt. The report coincides with a Jewish anti-Egyptian campaign through paid-for advertisements. There...
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2000
"Giving statements requires being logical and fluent, and everything that lacks reason and does not reveal a truth is not a statement, even in signed by a hundred "intellectuals"!!, whether headed or not headed by Said Al-Naggar [Al-Naggar means the carpenter], the blacksmith, or even Said the car-...
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
Christians in Egypt constitute more than twenty-seven denominations. The Coptic Orthodox is the majority denomination, followed by Coptic Catholics and then Evangelicals who have several denominations. There is just a difference in belief between these denominations, it is not a conflict or a...
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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.