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Date of source: Wednesday, January 27, 1999
Egypt has known the celebration of the religious Christian and Islamic festivities since the beginning of the Fatimid age. The Fatimids were interested in celebrating many Coptic festivities like Christmas and Easter.
Date of source: Monday, January 25, 1999
Shubra is the name of one of the famous areas in Cairo which is characterized by the tolerance and the special kind of relationship between Muslims and Christians.
Date of source: Friday, January 22, 1999
A story about a Christian girl who converted in the fifties to Islam but became known as ’the mother of Christians’ in her neighborhood in Zawya el-Hamra where she lived together with Muslim and Christian families in peace. Nadia helped the other Coptic families to nurse their babies. The...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 20, 1999
The state honored the Coptic writer, Counselor Edward Ghali El-Zahabi, former Chief of the Court of State (hai’it Qadaya el-Dawla), an authority on the study of the rights of non-Muslims in an Islamic society, and a former member of the People’s Assembly, on the occasion of the Holy Mulid of the...
Date of source: Monday, January 19, 1998
Yesterday, at dawn, the Muslims were performing the festival prayer, and in the evening, the Christians were celebrating" The Day of Epiphany. Accordingly, the way of the Egyptian’s living has changed. The iftar (breakfasting) tables became tables for love, sharing and brotherhood between the...
Date of source: Sunday, January 17, 1999
The Church of the Virgin Mary and of the Martyr Abanob at El-Kilj in Jebel El-Asfer in the diocese of Shirbin El-Kom in the governorate of El-Qalyubya is an old, crumbling, church. Built thirty years ago, its purpose was to cater for the spiritual needs of the Copts of the area. It has been closed...
Date of source: Friday, January 15, 1999
Saber Shenouda Girgis is a Coptic businessman explaining why he has been making for three years charity banquets during Ramadan for Muslims.
Date of source: Saturday, January 9, 1999
Pope Shenouda III has repeated his dismay of the vicious campaigns against Egypt. The pope was yesterday asked at a press conference what we can do to foreign papers, for they can attack any individual. He replied "it is enough that we live here together in peace and harmony." Pope Shenouda wished...
Date of source: Friday, January 8, 1999
During the Iftar consultant Mohammed Sabry Al-Baily, governor of Qalyoubiya, assured that Muslims and Christians are brothers of one fabric eating the same food and drinking from the Nile.
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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.