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Date of source: Sunday, February 22, 2004
Today, a
harsh delusory media campaign would be mounted against France due to the law banning the donning
of explicit religious symbols. We might as well take France’s ’lead and put our house in order
by going after the countless issues we tend to shelf or place ’on hold’, leaving them...
Date of source: Sunday, February 6, 2005
For Arab Christians, this Christmas my have been a time for introspection, but for Arab Muslims it was time for some serious thinking. The last holiday season more than any other in recent memory witnessed events of inclusions and exclusion, both sad and dramatic, symbolically.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 26, 2005
According to the logic of geography and history, not relying on claims of chauvinism, I can say that Egypt, unlike all the people of the globe, enjoys a deep-rooted national unity.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 28, 2001
The introduction of the Coptic researcher Hani Labib’s "Religious protection crisis.. Religion and the state in Egypt" is written by Prof. Mohammed Selim Al-Awa, an Islamic thinker. Labib believes that the most dangerous tool of globalization is religion. Religion is the most explosive and...
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2000
In this article, the writer points out that the Coptic new year’s day is an Egyptian feast and not only a Christian one.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 8, 2000
On the 25th of last June, I wrote an article entitled "A Shout to the Governor of Cairo". In this article, I exposed the complaint of the Christian employees in Munsha’t Nasar district. They were warned and punished by cutting a days pay from their salaries, as a result of being absent on the 23rd...
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2000
Inspire of the clear unambiguous laws, and despite the explicit instructions of ministers and responsibles of not disturbing Christians in their religious holidays, Christians are still complaining concerning assassinating their right in having feasts as holidays.
Date of source: Sunday, April 23, 2000 to Saturday, April 29, 2000
Happy year to all of you as today is one of the five main feasts for Christians in Egypt. These are five days for which we fight every year. We have asked several times for the feasts of the Copts to be considered official holidays for the whole country, this would conquer many negative aspects...
Date of source: Saturday, January 3, 1998
At the beginning of the New Year and the glorious Christmas day, we send our best regards and wishes to all Egyptians hoping it will be a fruitful year, full of God’s blessings. We renew our call for making Christian religious occasions official holidays.
Date of source: Sunday, December 27, 1998
Sidhom discusses Tarek Heggy’s philosophy about the principle of ’accepting the other’. "That deserves to replace the principles of tolerance as a distinguishing mark of civilization in tomorrow’s world." he says.
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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.