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Date of source: Sunday, July 17, 2005
A recent letter from Watani reader Mr. Nabil Mahmoud Wali took me back to the Problems on Hold file. Under the title “Egypt’s maligned Copts,” Mr Wali wrote on a taboo issue—that of religious conversion in Egypt
Date of source: Sunday, July 10, 2005
Complaints against the Civil Register Authority keep coming in. Watani readers are still writing to us about mistakes in the new computerised identification papers issued by the Civil Register, and the subsequent defiant, arrogant, uncooperative attitude adopted by the civil register clerks who...
Date of source: Friday, July 8, 2005
In order to examine the relationship between law and religion in Egypt, we should know that the legal system, since the establishment of civil courts in 1883, was never separate from religious rules. This is apparent in the influence of Islamic fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] on Egyptian civil law...
Date of source: Saturday, July 2, 2005 to Friday, July 8, 2005
Translator: The Christian Film Festival generated diverse reactions. Some fear it turning into a political rally, especially that it is showing Church production outside the Church premises.
Date of source: Sunday, June 26, 2005
People of the high-sounding religious tone insist on describing Christian Egyptians as dhimmīs [non-Muslims living in a Muslim state, who in return for taxes receive safety and protection], which is a language more likely to disintegrate the core of national unity.
Date of source: Saturday, June 18, 2005 to Friday, June 24, 2005
Rome established the meaning of citizenship, the citizen’s rights and duties. The Roman citizen was a member in a centesimal council managed by an elected person. The councils’ managers formed the National Assembly that chose their leader and decided on what official employees and members of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 15, 2005
The Woman Committee affiliated to the Middle East Council of Churches held a forum in Cairo some days ago where the participants debated citizenship and pillars of coexistence.
Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2004
The Holy Bible says: "Love your enemies, bless those who curse you" [Matthew 5:44, New International Version] and the Holy Qur’an says: "There is no compulsion in religion" [Chapter of Al-Baqara (the Cow) 2:256] "And if thy Lord had willed, He verily would have made mankind one nation" [Chapter of...
Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2004
The previous article offered a brief review of the mission and activities of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood during the last couple of decades, without delving into their past history. The Islamic movements in the Arab countries are variations of the Muslim Brotherhood, and would probably follow its...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 19, 2002
The head of the General Convention of the Church of God wrote to the author correcting the information he mentioned about the church. The former vice president also wrote to him about a vision of Egypt officially commemorating Coptic martyrs who struggled against the Byzantines before Islam.
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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.