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Date of source: Sunday, January 9, 2011
Diana Māhir Ghālī reviews this weekend's opinion articles dealing with the Alexandria church attack...
Date of source: Sunday, January 9, 2011
This editorialist says that the loss Egypt suffered as a result of the recent church attack in Alexandria is similar to the defeat suffered by Israel during the 1967 war. Only this time, he says, one part of the Egyptian community [implying Coptic community] views the bombing as an attack on...
Date of source: Sunday, January 9, 2011
This article reports that Coptic Christmas celebrations on January 7 went about as usual, with no reports of any trouble. The holiday comes a week after a deadly church bombing in Alexandria.
Many Muslims also attended Christmas mass out of solidarity with their Christian countrymen.
In the...
Date of source: Sunday, January 9, 2011
According to the Egyptian Gazette, Alexandria prosecutors are looking into the death of an Islamist suspected of being tortured to death for his suspected involvement in the recent Alexandria church bombing.
Date of source: Saturday, January 8, 2011
In mosques across the region on Friday, Muslim clerics preached tolerance and called for Muslim/Christian unity against acts of terrorism.
"Such crimes, which do not differentiate between Muslim and Christian or between a man and a woman, were rejected by the Prophet," says Egypt's Grand Muftī ‘Alī...
Date of source: Saturday, January 8, 2011
Egypt's Muslims showed solidarity with their Coptic brothers and sisters during Christmas celebrations. Many attended Christmas services across the country; others gathered in the street in support of national unity.
This article in the Egyptian Gazette reports that Pope Shenouda led mass at Saint...
Date of source: Friday, January 7, 2011
Muslims celebrated alongside Christians at Coptic masses in churches nationwide on Thursday night, as extra security measures were taken after the New Year's attack on a church in Alexandria.
Pope Shenouda led mass at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, which witnessed the presence of Muslim statesmen...
Date of source: Friday, January 7, 2011
This year's Coptic Christmas holiday comes exactly one year after a shooting outside a church in Naj‘ Hammādī and less than a week since a tragic church bombing left 23 dead in Alexandria. In light of these threats, AWR's Jayson Casper tells the story of how Coptic Christians celebrated the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 8, 2011
Rev. Rādī Atallah, the pastor of ‘Attārīn Evangelical Church in Alexandria, tells his personal story and explains how his church is moving forward with reconciliation efforts following last week's bombing of the Two Saints Church that left 23 dead and a community in mourning...
Date of source: Thursday, January 6, 2011
Diana Māhir Ghālī provides a recap of the Thursday opinion pieces dealing with the Alexandria New Year's day church bombing investigation...
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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.