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Date of source: Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Starting last winter till the end of the school year, the Cairo metro has come to be a promising and secure arena for delivering extremist religious sermons. Stickers promoting religious slogans are evidently everywhere inside the carriages. Extremist religious books are always cheaply available,...
Date of source: Monday, July 26, 2004
Anyone who visits Egypt will see Muslim and Christian signs of religiosity everywhere, in streets, taxis, shops, audiocassettes and clothes. At the same time the extent of corruption is constantly growing. What is the reason for this paradox we are experiencing?
The Imam denies his wife’s...
Date of source: Friday, April 9, 2004
An interview with his holiness Pope Shenouda III covering the reality of the clash of civilizations, the different dates for celebrating Christmas and Easter, rumors of sectarian strife and extremism in religion and other subjects.
Date of source: Monday, May 24, 2004
The balance between Egypt’s Coptic minority and its Muslim majority is an ancient and sensitive one. According to Bishop Boutros, who is responsible for the Coptic Orthodox Church’s publications, "spirits are full of hatred. Muslims and Christians are not good to each other - and it’s hard to...
Date of source: Monday, May 17, 2004
I felt distressed when I read the news about the Festival of Christian Films. I find it strange that an artistic event carries a religious title and limits its scope to a certain religion. It is likely that there will be Muslim films in which no single Christian takes part in them. Films will be...
Date of source: Monday, May 24, 2004
If my colleague Hamdi Rizq had investigated the truth, he would have not written what he had written about what has been called the First Festival for Orthodox Christian Movies. The article assumes that sectarian strife took place during the film festival. But this festival had nothing of the sort...
Date of source: Monday, May 24, 2004
An article was published last issue titled “Sectarian Strife in Alexandria,” by Hamdi Rizq, in which the author objects to the idea of holding a festival for Christian films.
The film festival was characterized by a sense of national unity between the two poles of the one nation in every phase of...
Date of source: Friday, May 28, 2004
For the first time in the history of artistic festivals in Egypt, the festival of Christian Orthodox Films, sponsored by Nidaa Al-Agrass “the sound of Bells” Coptic Association in Alexandria, featured 19 films. Since 1987, Christian films reached 75, with eminent actors and actresses taking roles...
Date of source: Saturday, June 5, 2004
The Committee for Children’s Rights of the United Nations asked France yesterday to edit the law of banning religious symbols so that it does not lead to the expulsion of students from schools. The Committee stated that “the state should guarantee that the rights of individuals are not violated and...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 2004
The posters of the Muslim Brotherhood are covering all the walls and doors of the faculty of medicine of the Qasr Al-Aini and the hospitals affiliated with Cairo University. This reveals that the banned Muslim Brotherhood and extremist religious activities have succeeded in penetrating into 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.