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Date of source: Thursday, May 10, 2001
While some Egyptian Christians - angry over deadly sectarian clashes in Imbābah - called for international protection for Copts, others slammed such a call as being alien to patriotism.
Some Copts argue that the Egyptian authorities cannot protect them from attacks by other Egyptian sects. Other...
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
The Salafī demonstration and subsequent attacks on Coptic Orthodox churches in the poor Cairo suburb of Imbābah on Saturday reportedly began after claims that a Christian woman, 'Abīr, had converted to Islam for marital reasons and later ran 'Awwāy. Whatever the truth of these claims, the fact...
Date of source: Friday, April 29, 2011
Dr. Rafīq al-Daw, vice-chairman of the Iron & Steel Factory, donated the sum of EGP200,000 (roughly $34,000) for building a mosque inside the the Suez Canal University in the coastal governorate of Suez.
Date of source: Saturday, April 30, 2011
Sa'd al-Dīn Ibrāhīm comments on Qena's incidents, protests to oust the Coptic governor, saying that people felt free after the revolution.
One of the reasons for the protests might be that the governor is a policeman, and the police was one of the institutions mostly detested by the people after...
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2011
The outrage that protestors in Qena have expressed regarding 'Imād Mikhael, the appointed governor of Qena, is not because he is Christian [Sectarian], but because the previous governor was a Christian who had negative religious reflections on their spiritual lives [tribal].
For example, the...
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2011
There are no natural reasons for Upper Egypt to have fitnah tā'ifīyah for more than 30 years but indeed there are political, security, economic, social, salafī, sexual, and terrorist reasons.
These reasons are keeping the file of fitnah in several governorates like Qena, Asyut and al-Minya.
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Date of source: Sunday, April 24, 2011
Henk-Jan van Maanen, a researcher, came from The Netherlands to research places of Islamism, Liberalism and Christianity in post-Mubarak Egypt. He met with AWR's Managing Director, Mr. Hānī Labīb, who helped him with some contacts from whom he can benefit.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Coptic leaders expressed their thanks to their Muslim brothers, political and religious bodies, and several parties for the vast amount of congratulations for Easter.
Date of source: Friday, April 22, 2011
Egypt has deployed extra police and troops to the central al-Minya province after a dispute between two Christian and Muslim families sparked deadly sectarian clashes.
A curfew has been imposed on the town of Abū Qurqās after a dispute between the two families over the building of a speed bump...
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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.