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Date of source: Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Today morning, Pope Shenouda announces that the Coptic Waqf system has regained back all the lands that had been taken from it by force. This problem was solved with the help of the Islamic Waqf Ministry [the ministry entrusted with government supervision of estates in mortmain].
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 1999
The Ministry of Waqfs (Religious Endowments) has recently handed over 14 more feddans [a feddan is an area approximately equal to an acre] of land to the Coptic Church. This takes to around 680 feddans the total number of feddans of land endowments delivered back to the church to the Church since...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
The writer, a native of Al-Koshh village, responds to an article which suggested the village’s inhabitants were drunken, noisy arms dealers and gangsters. [The village of Al-Koshh in the governorate of Sohag in Upper Egypt hit international headlines last year when a British paper "The Sunday...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
The Discussion of Cultures Convention that was organized by the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services became a demonstration of love and tolerance between the Muslims and Christians in Egypt. The Islamic scholars together with the priests agreed that Egypt is now living a period of...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 1999 to Friday, June 25, 1999
The writer lists a series of incidents at the Cairo University faculty supposedly carried out by Islamic groups at the university and insists that they are a cancer that may spread and destroy many good young people, and must therefore be gotten rid of.
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
The military courtrooms in Hike Step have seen a lot of strange things. One of the more bizarre spectacles, however, occurred on 17 June when the verdicts in the latest case against the Gamaa Islamiya - the Montaza Palace trial - came down. Leading defendant Ahmed Al Sheikh, who’d just been...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 1999
The Supreme Military Court handed down its verdicts in lawsuit number 3 for 1999, dubbed as the Revival of Gamaa Al-Islamiyya Organization case in Alexandria. The Court passed life imprisonment sentences with hard labor against 4 defendants, 15 years imprisonment with hard labor against 8, ten...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
"The West, its politicians and missionaries regard the Islamic world as one entity and, in dealing with Muslims, do not forget that they make up one social unit. But in the meantime, the West does not want us to feel united." Thus wrote Islamic scholar Tarek El-Bishri in the introduction to Ummati...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 1999 to Friday, June 25, 1999
A symposium was held in Rose El-Youssef discussing Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim and his Center. Dr Ibrahim responded to what he saw as misunderstandings held by the editors and journalists concerning his Center.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Our campaign against Ibn Khaldoun Center concerning its conspiracy against the system of education was exposed on the satellite channels. The "Orbit" satellite channel set a debate between the Islamic thinker, Dr. Abd Al-Azim Al-Mata’ni and Dr. Ahmed Sobhy Mansour, the writer of the new religious...
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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.