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Date of source: Friday, April 29, 2016
The letter of the law became lost to the people of al-Minyā after the sectarian conflicts that have occurred in the area forced the al-‘Urfiyaa Council to act as a substitute for the state and its laws. The council was successful in ending the conflicts by deporting people from the area. However,...
Date of source: Monday, January 25, 2016
Report about an Arab-West Report visit to Qufada in the district of Maghagha where we met with Shaykh Hamdi Abd al-Fattah and Father Yo’annis about Customary Reconciliation Sessions in Maghagha.
Date of source: Thursday, January 14, 2016
Georgetown University PhD candidate Matthew Anderson went in July 2015 with Arab-West Report/Center for Arab-West Understanding to Maghagha were we met with several local people, Christians and Muslims, about the expulsion of an extended Christian family from Kafr Darwish following allegations of...
Date of source: Thursday, November 12, 2015
Customary law, commonly referred to as (ʿUrfī [Urfi] Law), is a set of rules and procedures used by local arbitrators, for reconciliation and conflict resolution. Urfi law is resorted to by local communities in mostly non-metropolitan areas where it is held that the judicial system is not an...
Date of source: Thursday, January 8, 2015
A coalition of Coptic leaders met with Pope Tawadros and submitted to him legislation to address the sectarian conflicts the previous coalition was dealing with. Bishop Tawadros promised to study the legislation and meet with them again to discuss it. The legislation includes 12 new articles...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 7, 2015
A coalition of Coptic Leaders submits legislation addressing tribal conflicts to Bishop Tawadros
A coalition of Coptic leaders met with Pope Tawadros and submitted to him legislation to address the sectarian conflicts the previous coalition was dealing with. Bishop Tawadros promised to study the...
Date of source: Monday, October 22, 2012
In an attempt to appease the tense atmosphere in the village of Banī Hassan al-Ashrāf, al-Menya governorate, a 'urfī (informal) conciliatory session was held in coordination with security agencies to settle sectarian unrest between two Coptic and Muslim families. [Teresa Kamāl and 'Alā' Sarhān,...
Date of source: Saturday, April 7, 2012
Hundreds of Copts are visiting Jerusalem during the Passion Week for the first time since the death of Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III who prohibited pilgrimage to Jerusalem out of opposition to the Israeli occupation of the holy city, according to officials from the Egyptian carrier Air Sinai...
Date of source: Sunday, February 26, 2012
Participants in a conference organized recently by the Fellowship of Middle East Evangelical Churches (FMEEC) in the Lebanese capital Beirut called for all governments and organizations concerned to work hard to detect facts about what is going in the Middle East countries and enlighten the world...
Date of source: Saturday, February 11, 2012
Lawmaker Dr. ‘Imād Jād threatened to resign from parliament if People’s Assembly Speaker Dr. Sa’d al-Katātnī continues to refuse debating his urgent statement on a crisis that followed an informal ‘urfī (informal) reconciliatory session decision to expel eight Coptic families from al-‘Āmrīyah area...
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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.