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Date of source: Sunday, November 8, 1998
The Sohag issue seemed to be settled. Expatriate Copts stopped sending faxes and the bishop had stopped making trouble. Then on October 25 the Sunday Telegraph came out and blew the story up. Members of the foreign press in Egypt scoffed at many of the statements in an article of Al Ahram.
Date of source: Sunday, November 8, 1998
The Egyptian government has launched an international publicity offensive in the wake of disclosures in The Telegraph last month about a brutal police crackdown on Christians in southern Egypt. Actions include paying for full-page newspaper advertisements in cash and a lobbying campaign on the...
Date of source: Friday, November 6, 1998
The University of Sohag has witnessed yesterday a demonstration supporting National Unity.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 11, 1998
Many writers, such as Benjamin Barber, have argued that the next century will be a struggle between extreme capitalism and extreme fundamentalism, or as Barber puts it, McWorld versus Jihad, with the overall loser in the struggle, in Barber’s view, being democracy.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 4, 1998
Suddenly, the American paper ’Boston Globe’ came up with a front page story on Persecution of Egyptian Copts by police. According to the paper, police committed brutal acts of torture, beating them up, electrocuting them, and threatening to rape women. In another development, the paper said Bishop...
37. Why did Clinton sign the persecution law a few hours after signing the Wye Plantation agreement?
Date of source: Tuesday, November 3, 1998
Ninety eighty percent of the US Senate voted for the religious persecution law which forces the White House to take measures against countries accused of practicing any form of religious prosecution. Despite objections to the law while it was being discussed [in Congress] earlier this year, the...
Date of source: Monday, November 2, 1998
Egypt and Hosni Mubarak are the targets. Leave all these weak details, these highly elegant words and the human rights pretensions. It is just a game that those conspirators played against Egypt. What is this persecution that they are taking about? We smell the odor of the dollars that are paying...
Date of source: Sunday, November 1, 1998
The American Congress has lately approved the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act following talks paving the way to consider Egypt one of the countries subjected to this law. Although Egypt has not been clearly mentioned in the final version of the law, there is an indication which hurts...
Date of source: Saturday, October 31, 1998
Zaqlama describes how the issue of el-Koshh was blown up into unbelievable proportions.
Date of source: Friday, October 30, 1998
Adel Hussein, the gray-eminence of the Islamist Labor Party believes there is a "hostile satanic alliance now uses sectarianism to invoke internal unrest in Egypt by creating a gap between Muslims and Christians." The state has not produced any plan up till now to refute these charges and to back...
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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.