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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...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 15, 2000
The full, published text of the EOHR’s Special Report on the Al-Kosheh incident.
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, February 13, 2000
The author of this article challenges some of the statements made by Reverend Father Makarious Youssef of the Church of St. George in Abu Qurqas in an interview with a foreign news agency.
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
Abdel-Malak Asaad invites us to look at the events of Al-Kusheh as a dangerous indicator that feeds sectarianism. Before this he explains the difficulty he finds in explaining that he cannot side with the church as is expected from him, for he considers that Copts are spiritually related to the...
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2000
Those who speak about the percentage of representation of Copts [in the parliament], open a door for others to speak about the persecution of Muslims, as they do not own the appropriate share of wealth in proportion to their population. Through the same framework, Muslims should be afraid of Coptic...
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2000
As if Egypt needed more problems, emigrant Copts are adding another one on its mountain of problems. Because the sickness is in the same body, and because our biggest worries come from inside, the solution always comes from inside, as Abnodi [an Egyptian poet] said in "Dying on Asphalt", ’the...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 22, 1999
The RNSAW interviewed Hafez Abu Seada upon the request of the American Council of Churches about the article in the Boston Globe and found that the Boston Globe and Hafez Abu Seada have talked at cross-purposes. Where Hafez Abu Seada spoke about human rights violations concerning all Egyptians,...
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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.