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Date of source: Monday, April 17, 2000 to Sunday, April 23, 2000
Egypt is preparing for parliamentary elections and can’t ignore the problematic matter of the representation of Copts in the parliament. The author criticized the call to give Copts a number of seats proportional to their numbers and called Copts to participate in political life in order to get the...
Date of source: Sunday, April 2, 2000
This article tackled the problems of the merchants of Dar Al-Salaam. They have been asking the officials for help, but the officials advise them to wait. During these last few months, they have been losing a lot of money and nobody is compensating them. They were promised compensation, but this...
Date of source: Thursday, March 30, 2000
"The Copts of Egypt should not pay the price of peace in the Middle East". This sentence made me stop for a while and ask myself several questions such as: What is the price, which the Egyptian Copts pay in return for peace? Do the Egyptian Copts really pay a price for peace in the Middle East?...
Date of source: Thursday, March 23, 2000
As a result of the Al-Kosheh incidents, people began to understand that the Church is a party whom the Christians belong to. It is true that the Christians belong to the Church, but this is from the spiritual point of view. The Church gives the Christian the right to choose whatever political...
Date of source: Friday, March 17, 2000
Mustafa Abdel-Qader, Minister for Local Development voiced in this interview the same opinion as in Al-Ahram. "A solution for the problems in Al-Kosheh depends on the political dimension, development and respect for the law." The interview concerned development in general and included Al-Kosheh....
Date of source: Wednesday, March 29, 2000
The Truth, an e-mail service of American Copts, probably related to one of the Coptic associations, sent out a text which claims that Coptic Christians are persecuted in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, March 18, 2000
... I am of the opinion that the one who wants to write about national unity and the political problems of the Copts should deal with this subject in a very objective way and balance this with local and international factors within the framework of human rights and citizenship. One should not just...
Date of source: Friday, March 10, 2000
The article is about many Copts who will be presented as candidates in each political party; Al-Wafd, Al-Tagammu, the Labor Party and the ruling National Party. In 1995 there were 57 Coptic candidates but none of them was in the National Party. This time everybody expects the National Party to...
Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2000
Gamal Asad, a Coptic ex-member of the Egyptian People’s Assembly, has recently heavily criticized the emigrant Copts as well as several Coptic leaders - in particular Bishop Wissa of Balyana and Dar Al-Salaam in the wake of the Al-Kosheh incidents. Here the author responds to the accusations made...
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2000
"Giving statements requires being logical and fluent, and everything that lacks reason and does not reveal a truth is not a statement, even in signed by a hundred "intellectuals"!!, whether headed or not headed by Said Al-Naggar [Al-Naggar means the carpenter], the blacksmith, or even Said the car-...
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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.