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Date of source: Sunday, December 16, 2007
The article discusses the heated issue of Coptic feasts, and if Copts are entitled to paid leave to honor these celebrations.
Date of source: Sunday, December 2, 2007
The article discusses the annual Coptic Youth Conference, and the new addition to the agenda that will be discussed, namely the political participation of the youth.
Date of source: Sunday, May 27, 2007
Tarek Heggy presents a unique perspective on many problems that Copts claim to suffer from in Egyptian society, providing examples of action that he would take were he in the same position.
Date of source: Sunday, December 29, 2002
List of the articles commenting on President Mubarak?s decision that Coptic Christmas day is a national holiday. The decision is highly praised and welcomed.
Date of source: Monday, July 25, 2005
The administrative court have rejected a case put forward by Coptic lawyer Mamduh Nakhla which argued that the Coptic New Year should be made an official holiday.
Date of source: Monday, December 23, 2002
Bishop Maximous of Madinat Al-Salam thanks the president for his decision.
Date of source: Monday, December 23, 2002
Coptic organizations in the USA thanks President Mubarak for his decision establishing January 7, Coptic Christmas, as a national holiday for Christians and Muslims.
Date of source: Sunday, December 29, 2002
A comparison between Coptic Christmas before and after President Musbarak´s decision that January 7 is a national holiday. The author expresses the hope that this decision will revive the motto “Religion is for God and the homeland is for us all.”
Date of source: Sunday, May 12, 2002
The article speaks about the problems facing Copts to get their supposedly official holidays. Some officials haggle with their Coptic employees over their self-evident right to a holiday. The author wondered until when official silence would persist on this issue.
Date of source: Thursday, October 27, 2005
Judge, Fārouq ‘Abd al-Qādir, asserted that there is no legal obligation on the prime minister to make Coptic new year a fully-paid official holiday.
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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.