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Date of source: Sunday, September 28, 1997
At the Azhar,
English woman Jane Wilman, the wife
of an Alexandrian businessman, Dr. Ali Elba, has declared that she has
embraced Islam and taken the new name Eisha
Mohammed Elba. This conversion was applauded in the national
newspaper, al-Ahram, but Youssuf Sedhum wonders
why conversions to...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 24, 1997
Safinaz Kazem writes about her experience of what she sees as persecution, as a
result of her opposition to
President Sadat’s signing the Camp David Accords, and states that persecution is for
all Egyptians, not just
Copts.
Date of source: Sunday, September 21, 1997
Romani
Shafiek Agieb is a student who was persecuted by the University
of Asiut, Faculty of Education, after being
refused the right to nominate himself as a lecturer and then a
university professor. As a result, many
Egyptian Copts offered to help the student finish his higher education...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 17, 1997
Thanks to the Congress ... pardon to the Egyptian People’s AssemblyAl-Dustūr newspaper published in its issue of August 27, 1997, an essay entitled "Crusaders have not put their swords down yet". The writer expressed his worry at an American economic boycott, or an American marine invasion of Egypt...
Date of source: Sunday, August 17, 1997
The story of a Christian boy who converted to Islam in return for sweets, and the father’s response, which was jokingly to offer a Muslim boy a larger packet of sweets to become a Christian, is presented as a positive example of Muslim-Christian relations, since both boys’ fathers shared the joke.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 29, 1997
Subtitles: Prominent Copts refuse the American interference in their affairsGeorge Isaac; Take care, some secularist Copts are taking advantage of these reports. Dr. Rafik Habib: America is the last to talk about the human rights in the world. Bishop Aghathon: America is not a country of religions...
Date of source: Friday, July 18, 1997
Subtitle:Will I convert from Islam? A serious confession - our Islam is about to collapseEl- Muslimun of July 18 laments that Muslims exert much effort to get Christians to say the Islamic creed, but once they are Muslim, very little is done to help the new converts. Several examples of converts’...
Date of source: Friday, June 20, 1997
A Christian house in Minufia was set ablaze by a mob of Muslim believers because rumors were spread that a monk wanted to build a new church.
Date of source: Friday, June 20, 1997
Subtitle: The permanent committee for research gives a fatwa (religious decision)!Religious leaders in Saudi Arabia oppose plans to stimulate the unity between Islam, Judaism and Christianity, by building a mosque, church and synagogue in public places and printing the Qur’an, Old and New Testament...
Date of source: Monday, September 18, 2006
The suspicious visit of Michael
Munīr to Egypt, head
of the United States Coptic Organization, has raised questions about the kind of
demands he may make.
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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.