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Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2005
Since President Mubarak announced a constitutional amendment allowing for a multi – candidate presidential election, I have been pondering the importance of nominating a well- qualified Copt to compete in the upcoming presidential elections. Many Copts are in favor of the idea, not only because it...
Date of source: Sunday, January 19, 2003
The author believes that religious discourse is one of the main things that can provide support for democratic development. He focuses his argument on the Christian religious discourse.
Date of source: Friday, December 31, 2004
The author comments on a forum "Bolstering National Unity" that preached strengthening national unity in Egypt and healing the effects of sectarian sedition. He refers to speakers Yousuf Sidhum and Samir Marqus. - See art. 9: Where does the cleric's role start and end?
Date of source: Friday, April 29, 2005
Expatriate Coptic groups have a common goal; identifying the alleged Coptic problem and advocating their cause. That is their pretext for interfering in Egypt’s affairs. Such groups, call on the Copts of Egypt to take actions and run for presidential elections or that of the Bar Association. They...
Date of source: Sunday, April 17, 2005
Some might say chances for other candidates
in the presidential elections are so meager, and chances for Copts to win are even less, so why waste time, effort and money
on something whose loss is as sure as death and taxes.
Date of source: Sunday, April 17, 2005
A new class A few days ago, Watani’s Centre of Journalistic Formation and Human Resources Development celebrated the graduation of its second class. When the first class graduated two years ago, Watani provided Egyptian society and its journalism community with a group of confident and ardent young...
Date of source: Thursday, April 7, 2005
The website “al-Aqbāt Mutahidoun” [Copts united] posted an article urging Christians
to run for the presidential election. The article states ten reasons to participate.
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
Coptic lawyers
have entered as a party in the political game in the Egyptian Bar Association elections. Despite the failure of all Coptic
candidates in the recent elections, the role played by Coptic lawyers was undeniable, forming another trump card in the face
of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Date of source: Sunday, April 3, 2005
There is need to search for a suitable Coptic candidate to compete with the incumbent Egyptian president, not because it was a right for the Copts guaranteed by the constitution, but because the key objective of the competition is to expand the democratic practices to be genuine in the future.
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
The constitution, which provides that there is no discrimination among citizens on basis of religion, sex or color, holds that Islamic sharī‘a is the only source of legislation; while the fiqh [Muslim jurisprudence] rule goes that no non-Muslim would be allowed to rule Muslims.
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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.