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Date of source: Thursday, December 23, 2010
Ghazūlī begins by saying that worldwide, the separation of religion from politics and church from state is currently under pressure.
"Today, strong currents...in the West are mixing religion and politics and giving the church a growing role in public affairs; so are we to do the same?" the writer...
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2010
Stability in any world country is based on three factors: water, food and religion. Egypt faces serious problems in all three areas, especially religion, which has been reduced to the mere practicing of rituals in order to appear religious to other people instead of practicing them for their moral...
Date of source: Sunday, March 14, 2010
This article describes a conference held in Sharm al-Sheikh organized by the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services. The director of the CEOSS, Nabil Abadir, stated that the purpose of the conference was to discuss “the tragic cultural dilemma Egypt is living through, hoping to build...
Date of source: Saturday, January 2, 2010 to Friday, January 8, 2010
Rose al-Yūsuf wonders whether niqāb will spread in Egypt in the future or not.
Date of source: Monday, January 4, 2010
Rose al-Yūsuf reports on recent decisions concerning students wearing niqāb during their exams.
Date of source: Monday, January 4, 2010
Dr. Ahmad Sūkārnū writes about superficial religiosity in Islamic societies.
Date of source: Monday, February 22, 2010
The Head of al-Wafd, Mahmūd Abāzah, advocates that Muslims and Christians should try their best to solve their tensions without depending on religious leaders. According to him, the lack of religious tolerance in the educational system is the direct reason for the sectarian strife between religious...
Date of source: Sunday, January 31, 2010
This article describes the four young Coptic men who died trying to save a Muslim sanitary worker from suffocating in a drainage pit. Although the worker cried out for help after beginning to asphyxiate from the toxic gas, his manager and other workers would not commence a rescue for fear of...
Date of source: Sunday, January 24, 2010
This article deals with the multiple examples of Christian harassment by Muslims in Egypt, as well as in Malaysia. The incidents of Nag Hammadi in 2009, and the murder of 21 Copts in the village of el-Kusheh in 2000 are compared. However, the attack in Nag Hammadi is different than others because...
Date of source: Sunday, January 24, 2010
This article outlines 3 reasons why it is difficult to include Coptic Christians fully into the Egyptian political system. The first is the fact that there is little political participation by Copts within the government. There are seats reserved for women within the parliament, but this same...
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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.