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Date of source: Monday, May 14, 2001
The Commission was able to reach consensus on statements summarizing the situation in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The Commission decided that no statement should be issued regarding Israel and the Occupied Territories. Dr. Al-Marayati is opposed to this decision and formulated her own findings. Her...
Date of source: Monday, May 14, 2001
The report notices "some recent positive developments in the promotion of religious freedom." The areas of church building and preparing new history textbooks for public school children are explicitly mentioned.
However, the Commission finds that serious problems of discrimination against a number...
Date of source: Thursday, May 24, 2001
The decision of the Higher Council for Antiquities to consider Abu Hasera’s tomb, in Demtawa, as a monument, was taken four months ago. Until now, however, it has not been published in the official newspaper-which means that it is not enforceable. The inhabitants of Demtawa were very angry and...
Date of source: Thursday, May 24, 2001
Well-known Egyptian thinkers Dr. Milad Hanna and Counselor Tareq Al-Bishri spoke at a seminar of the Islamic Benevolent Organization about globalization. Hanna said that neither the entire West nor America accepts the idea of cultural conflicts. However, conflicts between cultures are in the...
Date of source: Sunday, May 27, 2001
Although President Mubarak ordered the inclusion of the historical period before the July Revolution [1952], which was ignored, in history books, the Coptic history is not included till now. The Minister of Education formed a committee to write the Coptic history under the Byzantine Empire which...
Date of source: Friday, May 25, 2001
Both Christians and Muslims ought to be proud of the Coptic history of Egypt and of the unique role of the Coptic Church on both national and spiritual levels. The reason for such pride is that it represents a link in the chain of Egyptian history. The author expressed the opinion that nations do...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2001
The author believes that Egyptians’ fear of the report of the US Commission for International Religious Freedom on Egypt prevented them from seeing that it was poorly written and lacked information. He thinks that the question in hand is not the rights of religious minorities, nor does it achieving...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Dr. John Watson, a consultant to the Archbishop of Canterbury on Coptic affairs, said that there are very few people, in the West, who know a lot about Islam. People in the West usually say that al-Islambuli murdered Sadat and that sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman is Islam. Dr. Watson said he taught...
Date of source: Saturday, May 26, 2001 to Friday, June 1, 2001
The public expected Iqra’ [recite, the very first word revealed in the Qur’an] satellite channel to offer an enlightened reading of Islam to agree with the givens of the new globalization time. However, the channel ended up by becoming the official channel for extremists and stagnant jurisprudence.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Montasser Al-Zayyat admitted that the amount of understanding in the relation between the late President Sadat and the Islamist groups was in the interests of both sides. Sadat’s interest was disfiguring President Nasser by bringing court martials, violations of human rights, and torture in prisons...
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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.