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Date of source: Sunday, May 10, 2020
27 days have passed since the well-known leftist human rights activist ʿAlāʾ ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ began his hunger strike in Ṭurah prison, which is located in the south of Cairo. al-Fattāḥ’s mother, the maths teacher at Cairo university and political activist, Laylā Suwayf, fights to bring medicine and...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Often international organizations intervene to defend activists and political opponents, who have been arrested and persecuted in some countries. However, it is rare to hear these organizations opposing the social injustice that women in the East experience if the accusations directed towards them...
Date of source: Friday, March 13, 2020
Eight people were killed and another 30 are recorded missing after floods swept over al-Zarāyib area of 15th May City on March 12. Shiḥātah Maqdis, a leader of the “zabaleen” [al-Zabbālīn], a community of garbage collectors, said that search and rescue operations are still ongoing to find the...
Date of source: Sunday, June 14, 2020
“To my siblings – I tried to find redemption and failed, forgive me. To my friends – the experience [journey] was harsh and I am too weak to resist it, forgive me. To the world – you were cruel to a great extent, but I forgive.” With these few words the queer activist Sarah Hegazy [Sārah Ḥijāzī]...
Date of source: Monday, May 4, 2020
On May 3, dozens of Egyptians working in Kuwait gathered at a housing area for migrant labor, demanding that their evacuation and repatriation process be completed. Afterwards, Kuwaiti security forces intervened, breaking up their protest.
Date of source: Sunday, March 29, 2020
The World Council of Churches is stressing the dire need to stand together to protect life in the face of the novel Coronavirus epidemic.
Date of source: Saturday, March 21, 2020
Father Būlus Ḥalīm, spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, said that last Saturday the church issued a decision to ban gatherings, sports clubs, and nurseries and to suspend church activities in the context of preventative measures against the coronavirus.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 18, 2020
The Egyptian Security Apparatus arrested Layla Sayf, mother of political activist ʿAlāʾ ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ, her daughter Munā Sayf, and her sister Dr. Ahdāf Suwayf, in addition to Dr. Rabbāb al-Mahdī, assistant professor of political science at American University. On Wednesday, the four women...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Are diseases and pandemics among the signs of the Hour of the Resurrection…Question and Answer by Shaykh Aḥmad Wisām, Secretary of Fatwas [fatwā] for the Egyptian Dār al-Iftāʾ. During the live broadcast on the Dār al-Iftāʾ official page, he explained that diseases are not among the signs of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 18, 2020
In light of the spread of the Coronavirus and fears of it expanding greatly, most of the world’s nations have adopted harsh measures to limit its spread. These measures were not limited to social or cultural aspects; rather, they have extended to religious rituals as well. Mosques and churches...
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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.