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Date of source: Saturday, October 6, 2012
U.S. Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing concerns and raising a number of questions regarding the...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 13, 2013
U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson’s visit to the Two Saint's Church in Alexandria has raised many questions. The visit, during which Patterson met with leaders, the high priest, and the lawyer of the families of martyrs, lasted more than two hours and was conducted in the strictest confidence and...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
One of the interesting subplots to the Egyptian revolution is the fate of ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahmān, known as the Blind Shaykh, who is incarcerated in America for his role in organizing the 1993 attempt to blow up the World Trade Center. His family has maintained a small sit-in protest outside the US...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, the Azhar's grand shaykh, criticized U.S. favoritism toward Israel in the Palestinian case, assuring that it will garner hatred towards the U.S. Administration's justice.
He added that the Azhar will always support Palestine and the establishment of a Palestinian State with...
Date of source: Saturday, June 25, 2011
Coptic Pope Shenouda III met with U.S. ambassador in Cairo Margaret Scobey, whose tour of duty expires soon.
A church source told al-Wafd newspaper, the mouthpiece of the opposition al-Wafd party, that Pope Shenouda, during the meeting, expressed his confidence in the Supreme Council of the Armed...
Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2011
The children of the Egyptian cleric Shaykh 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman have appealed for his release from jail in the US, saying their father is too frail to stand imprisonment thousands of miles away from home.
'Abd al-Rahman's children called on the Egyptian government to request the US government to...
Date of source: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Civil society organizations in Egypt contest the amendments suggested to the Civil Society Organizations Law, which imposes restrictions on their establishment and work.
Date of source: Thursday, May 8, 2008
The new American ambassador to Cairo seeks to open communication channels with the Azhar and calls for an effective cooperation.
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Many of the experienced human rights activists have turned into foreign funding brokers provided that fund seekers observe total secrecy and blind obedience. Brokers might as well pass the recipe secret to some company owner, which paves the way for the emergence of more brokers.
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The four papers comment on the issue of the freedom of press in Egypt in light of the detention of Mustafa Bakri, Editor-in Chief of Al-Usboa, and his deputy Mahmoud
Bakri.
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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.