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Date of source: Saturday, May 19, 2001
Pope Shenouda issued a Papal decree to the effect that Christian clergy are not
allowed to run
in the elections of the People’s Assembly and the Shūrá Council. However, Archpriest Matta
Sawerus stressed that
the Pope did not issue such a decree as he had agreed to his nomination to represent...
Date of source:
The US Commission for International Religious Freedom refused to issue a
report about its visit to Israel, which aimed at investigating the religious situation there. The Secretary
General
of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights considered this evidence of using the file of
religious...
Date of source:
The court of Cassation postponed
giving its opinion concerning the appeals filed against al-Kosheh rulings
by the Prosecutor General and the
four convicted defendants until the session of July 30. The upshot of the report,
the Cassation prosecution
introduced to the court was appealing against...
Date of source:
Nawal al-
Sa’adawi started defending herself against the
apostasy charges directed at her. She issued a statement in which
she criticized the defamation campaign
launched against her by a weekly paper. It was reported that she backed down
on her decision to confront
Mohammed Hassan al-Alfi,...
Date of source:
The General
Prosecutor declared that Nawal al-Sa’adawi will be tried on June 18. al-Sa’adawi said that her expected
trial was
biased and wronged Islām and Egypt in general. She added that it was not plausible that she was
going to be tried
because of a misinterpreted interview.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 1, 2001
The author compliments the article above and sees this as an encouragement to use new information technology for Coptic activists living outside Egypt.
Date of source:
An
apostasy claim against Nawal al-
Sa’adawi -following the publishing of an interview in which she criticized Islām -
stirred up a social
debate on her opinions and raised fears for her life. al-Sa’adawi contested what she called
perfectly set
traps of the yellow papers in collusion with...
Date of source:
The
State Security Supreme Court decided to postpone the trial of Saad
Eddin Ibrahim to the 19th of the coming month.
Lawyer Abdel Haleem Mandour, who defends the fifth and sixth
defendants and known for being an Islamist, said that
he will not only defend his clients but all the
defendants,...
Date of source:
The Supreme Court of
State Security
continued the trial of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Ibrahim is accused of receiving funds without having
permission, bribing public officials, undermining the dignity of the state by broadcasting information
having to do
with its interests and deceiving foreign...
Date of source:
Lawyer Nabeeh al-Wahish introduced a notification against Dr. Nawal al-
Sa’adawi, in which he
accused her of dispising Islām and transgressing moralities. The Muftī, Dr. Nasr
Farid Wasel, said that he would
not comment on al-Wahish’s notification until al-Sa’adawi stands before
the court. If...
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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.