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Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
The National [Democratic] Party has started a series of wide contacts with many patriotic personalities among Copts in order to nominate them in the lists of the party in the coming elections.
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
As Gamal Al-Shazly, the assistant secretary general of the National Party declared that - according to the recommendations of the president - Copts, women and youth will have a greater share in the coming people’s assembly elections in November [2000].
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2000
During the visit of the minister for housing to Al-Kosheh, he realized that the kiosks completely block the space in front of the shops. He ordered their removal but the local leaders of the National party refused.
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2000
Anyone who reads the declarations of emigrant Copts and the declarations of the centers adjoined to them thinks that Egypt is an apartheid society like South Africa in the past. Some might even think that every Muslim in Egypt carries an machine-gun on his shoulder all the time to deal with any...
Date of source: Sunday, January 10, 1999
An interview with Ibrahim Shukry, the 83 year old head of the Islamist Labor Party on al-Koshh and the place of Coptic Christians in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
Recent arrests of Muslim Brotherhood members appear linked to the government’s decision to allow lawyers’ syndicate election to take place.
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
The dispute over the new Associations Law has drawn lots of attention and while it was approved by a parliament majority, the majority of the Egyptian public disapproved of it. This is not merely an impression but an observation gleaned from empirical evidence in Egyptian public life.
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999
The recent passage of a new law covering the establishment, management and funding of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Egypt has been widely criticized by private groups already working in fields of social service, human rights and related areas of human concern. And rightly so. The very...
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 1999 to Wednesday, June 9, 1999
The People’s Assembly’s Culture Committee was the scene of stormy debates this week over the Culture Ministry’s plans to organize a celebration marking the advent of the next millennium. Among other questions that the Culture Minister Farouk Hosni was asked, was this one: "The celebration will be...
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 1999 to Wednesday, June 2, 1999
A bill that regulates NGO activities has been approved in principle by the People’s Assembly. The bill faced severe criticism, with independent and opposition deputies arguing that the bill was at the expense of civil rights and political freedoms because it obstructs the formation of certain NGOs...
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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.