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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: Monday, January 11, 1999
President Hosni Mubarak sent a letter of congratulations to the emigrant Copts for the holy Christmas who live in the United States.
Date of source: Friday, December 3, 1999
The author responds to a controversial article of Islamic thinker Fahmy Howeidy, titled "The voice of the Coptic church". Howeidy mentioned that he is sorry for the behavior of Copts abroad because they meet with some Jewish extremists in a mutual attempt of which they may or may not know its...
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 1999
[Due to personal problems of the translator, this text and the following of October 19 have been handed in only yesterday. We apologize for the delay in presenting this article]. The author claims the US Report on Religious Freedom attempts to ignite strife between Muslims and Copts along...
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 1999
The discussion at the press conference of the New York Council of Churches on June 28 [transcript presented in last week’s RNSAW] was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union. Before the press conference Drs. Cornelis Hulsman interviewed Rafique Iscander, chairman and founder of the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 1999
Recently there has been a campaign against the emigrant Copts. But prominent writers here in Egypt [both Muslim and Christian] have recently been writing to point out that not all the accusations against the emigrant Copts have any evidence to back them up and that Copts do actually experience...
Date of source: Sunday, July 25, 1999
The results of Mubarak’s last visit to America were amazing. Due to the stream of claims that was spreading everywhere about the persecution of the Copts in Egypt, the emigrant Copts decided to start their way in establishing an Egyptian lobby.
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
Otto Meinardus, a leading authority on the Coptic Church, wrote a new book called ’Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity’. The present work is a compact hardback publication which, according to the cover, is "a new, definite, one-volume history for the Millennium, surveying the twenty centuries...
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999
What happened in the USA stressed the fact that there is a real crisis between the emigrant Egyptians and the Egyptian government. The Egyptian mass media has failed in opening a channel of conversation between these emigrants and the government. It has also failed in making them recognize the...
Date of source: Sunday, April 11, 1999
Why don’t both the Pope and Sheikh Al-Azhar write a joint book on the combined issues of heavenly religions? Issues of tolerance, mutual love, discarding violence, religious freedoms etcetera, because this book would help in paving the road of mutual love and brotherhood between the children of the...
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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.