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Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
The only practical and correct step as a whole is the conciliation committees that were constituted of wise man from the East Nile Region. This region has remained for centuries ruled by special considerations and forgotten by the capital city. Al-Usboa met Mounir Fakhri Abdel-Nour, one of the...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
The reader Nada Samah Shafan explains her being deceived by the way Mustafa Bakri reported the events of Kosheh. She asks him to have the courage to meet Priest Wissa and listen to him and she criticizes him for accusing Priest Wissa of treachery. Shafan explained that it was normal for Bishop...
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2000
Talking about the Coptic situation in Egypt has become a means of pressure, especially after the latest events in Al-Kosheh. On 24 January, emigrant Copts published a letter that was addressed to the Prime Minister Dr. Atef Ebeid. In this letter they accused the country of encouraging communal...
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2000
A summary of various newspaper reports on Al-Kosheh, accusing some newspapers of further fomenting communal strife by their biased and inaccurate reporting of the incidents, with 8 points put forward to prevent the repetition of such incidents again.
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
The reader Gamal Moussa Al-Darwi writes in response to two letters by two Coptic brothers who attacked Al-Usboa, accusing it of fanaticism.
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
... The Copts are also suffering from the strict orders of the Orthodox Church. Therefore, many Copts have converted to Catholicism or Evangelicalism because the Orthodox Church refused modernism and would not allow its children to move freely or express their opinions frankly.
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2000
Several times many reports have been published about persecution of Copts in Egypt. Non-governmental organizations took these reports and published them as if they were facts. These reports expose a question, which needs an answer. What is the reality of these organizations, and what are their...
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2000
Some people ask what are the defects in the actual reality in which we are living? The defects are mainly concentrated in two points: First, insisting on keeping some rules, which spread the spirit of discrimination and kill equality. Second, keeping policies and behaviors, which have a disastrous...
Date of source: Thursday, January 27, 2000
Today we will speak of the problems of Copts, which do not concern Copts in Upper Egypt only, but Copts all over Egypt. The first complaint is in what is called the Hamayouni Law,... Copts complain about some of the Muslim sheikhs, who also harm Islam... Then, we come to the excessive doses of...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 25, 2000
There are times when all the facts are misinterpreted and objectivity is missed among the mixed feelings of exaggeration and tension. What happened in Al-Kosheh are individual acts, which could not be counted as sectarian events. Accusing these events of being sectarian was encouraged by external...
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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.