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Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
A special report by Drs. Cornelis Hulsman on the attack on the Coptic Orthodox priest Father Stephanous of al-Maḥallā al-Kubrā, based on personal visits and interviews with the priest himself, close associates, the security authorities and others. Also included is an analysis of the early Egyptian...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
Many times claims of kidnap and rape are not correct but this story in the Egyptian Gazette proofs that women can be raped. The culprits were caught and one of them was sentenced to death.
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
Since the Egyptian media have frequently referred to the press conference on Christian girls allegedly being kidnapped the RNSAW decided to present here the full transcript of the discussion which took place in New York. The discussion was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union who had...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 1999
In the mind of the author, the report of Drs. Cornelis Hulsman prepared for the New York Council of Churches a few weeks ago regarding the alleged kidnappings, rapes and forced conversions to Islam of young Christian girls was like a bomb destroying the claims of the Coptic groups in the USA who...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 1999
Dr. Nabila Micha’il protests that certain words attributed to Maurice Sadek in an interview with Rose El-Youssef are not true. But Rose El-Youssef says they have the tape of the interview with Sadek and that he has not sent a denial of what he said to Rose el-Youssef because he knows quite well...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 1999
Campaigns and plots aim to destroy Egypt’s reputation abroad. Worse are the damages caused by the poisoned fatwas of the "Sheikhs of ’Al-Takfir’ [sheiks of apostasy] and Fame". Confiscating a book in Egypt with a religious Fatwa is not less dangerous than declarations of Copts in the countries of...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 1999
Truth has got one face. But every accident has hundreds of false faces. Egypt has become the target of malicious lie sellers who are praying every day in the temple of manipulation. One of them is the conspiracy of the truck against the Copts. Another attack comes through a highly selective way of...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 1999
Human Rights Organizations have the lion’s share in spreading rumors and lies abroad and, in this way, support extremism. The game is to cry about the lost democracy and freedom and put terrorism in the shape of human rights. They have found their target in trying to abolish the emergency law which...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Egyptians opposed to the trial of civilians by the military celebrated when Egypt’s Higher Administrative Court (HAC) invalidated the practice on August 8. The ruling specifically targeted a 1986 presidential decree which referred some 77 Islamic militants suspected of conspiring to blow up video...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 1999
After having left Egypt ten years ago will the blind sheikh return to Egypt? This question is repeated several times after the declarations of the Minster of Internal Affairs. The Minister said, " There is no objection against the return of Sheikh Omar, but on one condition which is that he serve...
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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.