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Date of source: Sunday, March 25, 2007
A summary of the proposed constitutional amendments that have been approved by Parliament and will be submitted for public referendum.
Date of source: Thursday, December 30, 2004
Minister of Information Dr. Mamdouh al-Biltājī asserted that the television series Bint min Shubrā will not be broadcast on Egyptian Television.
Date of source: Thursday, December 30, 2004
It seems that the differences will increase when we discuss the issue of specifying one’s religion on ID cards, especially after the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee at the People’s Assembly, Mustafa al-Fiqī, said that both Muslims and Christians support the cell in IDs that specifies...
Date of source: Friday, December 24, 2004
We may agree that there are plans laid to undermine what we were all settled to call “Egyptian national unity” We were wrong to confine that unity to Copts and Muslims, as it should encompass all national categories be they religious, ethnic or socio-economic; we were also wrong to boil it down to...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 22, 2004
On June 17, 1981 violence erupted between Muslims and Christians in the Cairo working class district of al-Zawīya al-Hamrā? in which at least 20 people were killed and hundreds others injured, giving reason enough for late President Anwar al-Sādāt to launch the notorious September 1981 detentions...
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The Abū al-Matāmīr tensions triggered a full-page article in Sawt al-Ummah newspaper claiming that Israel wants to declare a Coptic state in Upper Egypt or Hurghada. Other discussions followed the tensions, some of them very emotional.
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The visit of the US Commission on Religious Freedom to Egypt received the attention of almost all Egyptian press outlets. Many articles highlighted the difference between Egyptian and American approaches to the subject of religious freedom. Most of the authors who wrote on this subject reject the...
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The final scenes of “National Unity” have been completed. “National Unity” is a TV series that depicts the relationship between Muslim and Coptic Egyptians over a period of 150 years.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 to Thursday, February 19, 2004
In his newspaper Sawt al-Ummah on 10 February 2004, Hammouda accused Christians of being polytheists and unbelievers and he tried to use the Qur’ān to back his claims, but the Qur’ān is free of these claims. The editor of Sawt al-Ummah has a long history of poisoning national unity. Art. 3 - the...
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2003
Much greater concern than usual has been paid to Christmas in the Egyptian press thanks to President Mubarak?s decision concerning January 7. A list of Christmas articles is given.
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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.