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Date of source: Sunday, December 26, 1999
Youssef Sidhom continuing to defend himself against criticism of his accepting a prize from Freedom House in Washington D.C. in the USA, outlines his conversation with Mrs. Nina Shea, manager of Freedom House in Washington D.C., at a luncheon after the presentation of prizes by Freedom House to...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 22, 1999
The RNSAW interviewed Hafez Abu Seada upon the request of the American Council of Churches about the article in the Boston Globe and found that the Boston Globe and Hafez Abu Seada have talked at cross-purposes. Where Hafez Abu Seada spoke about human rights violations concerning all Egyptians,...
Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 1999
A new article about the Koshh issue. The article places the Koshh incident in the context of discrimination or even persecution of Christians in Egypt and quotes for this Hafez Abu Seada, the secretary-general of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights.
Date of source: Saturday, December 18, 1999
Sub-titles: Congressmen sponsored the celebration and members of the Freedom House do not have anything else but the Koshh incident. Some attendants claimed that there is a campaign to get rid of Coptic priests. Any incident was considered part of criminal plans At the time when the Freedom House...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 7, 1999
Sohag Court of Felonies decided to postpone to January 2nd the hearing of the case of the murder of two young Copts in the village of Al-Koshh, Dar El-Salaam after another attorney resigned due to his illness. The accused remained in custody. The incidents the case relates to took place on August...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 7, 1999
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights apologized over receiving an award given to its secretary general from "The Freedom House" based in Washington. Hafez Abu-Seda, the secretary general stated that the award was given to him because of the famous Koshh report.
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
For the second time, the case of alleged human rights abuses in Al Kosheh village has been closed without any prosecutions. On 25 October, the prosecutor of Sohag governorate in Upper Egypt said that there was no evidence to prove that the injuries suffered by hundreds of villagers were the result...
Date of source: Monday, September 27, 1999
This Freedom from Religious Persecution Act gives America the right to interfere in diplomatic ways to the concerned governments and if a government does not respond, it is the right of the U.S. administration to impose any sanctions that it (the U.S.) sees fit. The author stresses that several...
Date of source: Friday, September 24, 1999
The Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, which criticizes several Middle Eastern countries including Egypt, is the result of the Religious Freedom Act sponsored by right-wing members of the US Congress in 1998 in what some observers say was a capitulation to fundamentalist Christians...
Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 1999
The United States released its first annual report on religious freedom worldwide on Thursday (September 9, 1999)... Regarding Egypt, the report admitted that the non-Muslim Christian minority generally practice[s its] rituals without any interference, but it claimed that there [is] some societal...
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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.