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Date of source: Thursday, January 8, 2004
Egyptian media and political leaders paying attention to Coptic Christmas.
Watani’s Editor-in-chief Yusuf Sidhom’s discusses the term ’ persecution’ in describing the position of Christians in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2004
The article is about attacks against Egypt in the US encouraged by Coptic immigrants. The author
argues that these attacks always intensifies in the periods that precedes President Mubarak
official visits to the US.
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2004
The article is a criticism of Coptic activists in the US, particularly Michael Mounir, the
head of the US Copts Association.
The author explains that Mounir always takes advantage of
some incidents that take place in Egypt, which most times are false, in order to call on the U.S.
to interfere in...
Date of source: Thursday, February 19, 2004
Almost two weeks ago Anthony Weiner, a member of the American Congress, submitted a
draft of an urgent project in which he requests that American military assistance to Egypt and
all forms of economic cooperation between the countries be halted unless the issue of Copts is
dealt with.
The...
Date of source: Monday, February 23, 2004
The US
wants to make use of all means of pressure on the Arab region and the Islamic world as a step to
prepare to control and re-divide the area. This is what is going on now. Coptic expatriates are
one of these means of pressure.
Now, the American administration is using the Coptic...
Date of source: Thursday, February 26, 2004
Sawt Al-Umma published a false statement that was attributed to engineer Michael
Mounir, president of the U.S. Copts Association, saying that the association asked the U.S. to
occupy Egypt militarily.
The newspaper has published a provocative reportage titled
“Coptic émigrés are asking for the...
Date of source: Thursday, December 23, 2004
This report explains the escalations following the alleged conversion of a priest’s wife to Islam. Much background is given to the cultural context that explain why such an issue is so sensitive in Egypt. The report also shows that several of the organizers of the demonstration in Cairo have done...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2005
A press conference was convened on Tuesday 16, February, for Armanius’ family that lost four of its members in an offensive accident discovered on 14, January 2005. The US Coptic Organization, in the presence of representatives from different American and international human rights organizations...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Expatriate Copts rejected and condemned what some newspapers published as a message from the National Coptic Society to Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon. The message requested Sharon’s intervention to solve the Coptic problem in Egypt. This came in a statement to al-Ahālī presented by 14 Coptic...
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2004
Participants of "The first international symposium of Egyptian Copts: A minority under siege.” addressed the symposium on one of three levels. The first expressed wrath at the deterioration in the state of affairs of the Copts throughout the past half – century. On the second level, participants...
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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.