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Bahāʾ al-Dīn Ḥassan [Bahay Hassan] is an Egyptian Human Rights defender who has led the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, CIHRS. Since he has received death threats for his work, he is currently living in France. Najād Barʿaī [Negad Borai] also works in the field Human Rights...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Najīb Jibrā'īl, the head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, called upon the Copts abroad to give a ‘yes’ vote in the coming constitutional referendum. He called it a national duty and emphasizes that “We must not let the Muslim Brotherhood have this chance”. He stated that despite...
Date of source: Sunday, November 24, 2013
Mary Mīlād, the head of the Right Party, stated that this stage is a milestone in the history of Egypt, because we went out of two large revolutions and are preparing to vote on the Constitution of Egypt. This is the first practical step in the “Road Map”. She said that there is a big difference...
Date of source: Saturday, August 3, 2013
In a different incident, security forces in al-Minya stepped up their presence in front of vital facilities after unknown persons distributed a flyer threatening to attack public facilities and churches in Minya if sit-ins of Morsi supporters were dispersed up by force.The flyer refers to a...
Date of source: Thursday, January 10, 2013
Egypt's Salafist al-Nūr Party on Wednesday, January 9, chose Yūnis Makhīyūn as its chairman in an internal party election. Makhīyūn, who won the election uncontested, replaces former Al-Nūr leader, Dr. ’Imād ’Abd Al-Ghaffūr.
"We will do what it takes to establish a country based on justice...
Date of source: Sunday, January 20, 2013
al-Wafd reported on al-Marāshdah incident as well, where Bishop Kyrillos of Qena stated that the clashes resulted in the burning of three stores and an attack on six (‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’bān, al-Wafd, Jan. 20, p. 8). Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 to Sunday, April 1, 2018
Salafīs have saved the village of Sharbāt, al-Nahdāh neighborhood, in the western Alexandria district of al-'Āmrīyah, from a conflagration that could have consumed everyone in its way, said the spokesman for the Salafī al-Nūr (Light) Party, the second largest in the Egyptian parliament.
Date of source: Monday, February 13, 2012 to Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod, called for establishing a council for Egyptian churches to be tasked with negotiating with the new regime to achieve Copts’ demands, stressing unity of Christian denominations to seek solutions for Coptic problems, including the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Pope Tawadros II held New Year's mass at the Two Saints Church in Alexandria, without prior notice, to mark the second anniversary of the bombing on New Year's Eve 2010. Outside the church where 24 people were killed and more than 100 wounded, Muslims and the Christians held a vigil. They tied a...
Date of source: Monday, January 2, 2012
A large number of candidates running in the third round of the parliamentary elections paid visits to the church to congratulate it over the New Year while candidates of the Salafī al-Nūr Party refrained.
Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Holy Synod, refused to meet any candidates, adding that the...
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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.