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Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2000
Anyone who reads the declarations of emigrant Copts and the declarations of the centers adjoined to them thinks that Egypt is an apartheid society like South Africa in the past. Some might even think that every Muslim in Egypt carries an machine-gun on his shoulder all the time to deal with any...
Date of source: Monday, January 10, 2000
The Coptic former member of Parliament, Gamal Asaad, says that there is a crisis that should be handled and a priest whose role should be restricted. The Coptic researcher Rafiq Habib and the Christian historian Yunan Labib Rizq believes the violence was related to a poisoned public atmosphere
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2000
As if Egypt needed more problems, emigrant Copts are adding another one on its mountain of problems. Because the sickness is in the same body, and because our biggest worries come from inside, the solution always comes from inside, as Abnodi [an Egyptian poet] said in "Dying on Asphalt", ’the...
Date of source: Thursday, December 30, 1999
A minority of the emigrant Copts claims that the Coptic endowments in Egypt have been confiscated and no attempts have been made to solve this problem. They pay millions in publishing advertisements in the American newspapers to circulate the idea that Copts in Egypt are suffering some problems,...
Date of source: Thursday, December 16, 1999
Bishop Qolta expresses his thoughts on the Muslim month of Ramadan, and says there is a need for a new Islamic jurisprudence as well as a pressing need for a new Christian theology. "... Religious men all over the world have to work hard in searching for a new form for the relations between their...
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 1999
[Due to personal problems of the translator, this text and the following of October 19 have been handed in only yesterday. We apologize for the delay in presenting this article]. The author claims the US Report on Religious Freedom attempts to ignite strife between Muslims and Copts along...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Hanna claims Egypt has the ability to accept and accommodate differences. It is a divine dichotomy which has become codified under the rhetoric of national unity. It reflects the close and amicable relation between Islam and Christianity and is a product of the cultural and historical...
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 1999
"The seven pillars of the Egyptian Identity" is the title of a book by Dr. Milad Hanna who says that the Egyptian identity is a mixture of seven pillars; four main pillars and three subsidiary ones. The four pillars are: the Pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic and Islamic. The three subsidiary pillars...
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 1999
A review of a book by Milad Hanna calling for a culture of mutual acceptance and the emphasis on national identity over a sectarian religious identity, as well as some background information on Dr Milad Hanna himself.
Date of source: Monday, May 17, 1999
Gamaal As’ad responds to an article by a Catholic priest in last week’s Rose El-Youssef magazine which attacked the Coptic church, and in which the priest wrote amongst other things concerning the Egyptian Orthodox Church: "these people have transformed our sacred message into shouts and uproars....
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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.