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Date of source: Sunday, December 25, 2011
In an attempt to ease the tension between protesters in al-Tahrīr square and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), 65 activists and public figures suggest opening up nominations for presidential candidates on 25 January, closing the nomination period on the anniversary of former President...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
From before the revolution, many Copts have realized their community suffers from a dearth of political and civic participation. The Coptic Orthodox Church’s Bishopric of Youth, for example, has an area of focus entitled ‘Promoting Coptic Participation in Society’, which I encountered when a...
Date of source: Sunday, December 4, 2011
Results of the first round of Egypt's first post-Mubārak parliamentary elections, as announced by the High Judicial Elections Commission (HJEC) showed progress by the Democratic Alliance for Egypt, in which the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) obtained 40% of the votes, followed...
Date of source: Saturday, November 5, 2011
A state of anger prevailed among Copts due the few Coptic candidates on parties’ slates, although there are big parties founded by Copts. However, the total number of candidates does not exceed 120 candidates.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Last May, I wrote an article in this very place entitled "Copts…Please stand steadfast" when I recognized that many Egyptian Christians increasingly have the feeling that they have become strangers in their own country and that their lives are no longer secure enough.
Date of source: Thursday, October 6, 2011
Dr. Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, the director of Ibn Khaldoun Center, emphasized that he asked for a parliamentary quota, ranging between 15 percent and 20 percent for Copts. “Pope Shenouda stood against the idea and told me "We are not a minority and we not need a quota for Copts,” Ibrāhīm added.
Date of source: Thursday, December 1, 2011
The Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria estimated the Copts' participation in Egypt's first parliamentary elections after the January 25 revolution at more than 70% of the total Coptic population, terming the figure as "unprecedented in the history of the church".
"Copts have practically...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Many people negatively judge the Coptic love and loyalty towards Egypt. They claim that the Copts are more comparable on the cultural and mood level to the Western Christianity than to Egypt and the Arab world. There is, for example, a tradition applied here up till now which is the absence of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
An Egyptian Coptic delegation flew to Lebanon on November 14 to attend the first conference organized by the European Union (EU) to discuss the conditions of Christians in the Middle East region.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 12, 2011
A report by the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization reports the migration of nearly 100,000 Copts since last March 19. Najīb Jubrā'īl, head of the organization, expects the number reaches 250,000 by the end of 2011 if the migration continues at the same pace, which threatens the...
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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.