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Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 2004
Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the head of the Anglican Church of the UK, today begins his visit to Egypt in response to an invitation from both the bishop of the Anglican Church and the Grand Imam of the Azhar Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi. The two-day visit comes in the...
Date of source: Friday, September 10, 2004
Archpriest Marcos Aziz Khalil was honored for winning the plaque of national unity from the Arab Cultural Center in Sydney, Australia.
Archpriest Marcos Aziz Khalil won the prize because of his articles [in Egyptian papers] advocating national unity and rejecting foreign interference in Egypt’s...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2004
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi’s call for establishing Islamic and Christian parties has resulted in more disputes and splits within various political streams. The majority of political powers rejected Al-Qaradawi’s call deeming it an obvious demand to create a legitimate political party for the Muslim...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 2004
The Egyptian character has shown a clear continuity that links its present to its past, and its history is similar to a number of layers of various cultures that have been absorbed by the Egyptian….past and present have been unified to present a positive picture that nevertheless has some negative...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2004
A girl called Asmaa Muhammad Zaki who suffers from mental illness, disappeared. This girl’s father accidentally found out that his daughter converted to Christianity.
On another level, an extremist priest called Marcos Zakariya [the correct name is Zakariya Botros See AWR 2004, week 22, art. 24]...
Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 2004
The state is responsible for allocating and planning cemeteries for all sectors of Egyptians. It does well indeed by planning neighboring cemeteries for both Muslims and Copts. It makes sense that, if the live close to one another, there can be no sensitivity in their being buried near one another...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2004
The Freedoms Committee of the Journalists Syndicate condemned the government’s suspension of a number of websites, including the Brotherhood’s website “Ikhwan on line” and the websites of the newspapers Al-Shaab and Al-Methaq Al-Arabi. The Committee pointed out that the suspension of websites is a...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2004
I received an unsigned letter about a Coptic grievance. The letter is written in English with an Arabic summary. The title of the letter is “The injustices suffered by the Christian minority in Egypt.” The letter also reminds the reader of the raids conducted by armed Islamic groups against the...
Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 2004
In his attempt to restore the spiritual side of the azan, Minister of Endowments Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq has begun a project intended to unify the voices and times of the azan. This step came after a noticeable increase in the number of mosques which has opened the door to many muezzins [the person...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2004
The decision taken by Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, the Minister of Awqaf [Religious endowment], to unify the call to prayer in state mosques by way of a radio broadcast, has caused much debate. Al-Midan put the question to various specialists.
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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.