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Date of source: Sunday, January 31, 2010
This article gives an in-depth account of the events in Najc Hammādī on the Coptic Christmas Eve. It includes a number of first hand accounts of the shooting, as well as interviews from the victims’ families. It also follows the victims from the shooting, to the hospital in Najc Hammādī, to Sohag...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Qināwī reflects on the situation in Egypt with regard to the tense sectarian state.
Date of source: Sunday, January 31, 2010
The Nag Hammadi sectarian crime which took place on Coptic Christmas Eve, 6 January, and which left six Copts dead and nine wounded, triggered wide protest and rallies by Copts in places as wide apart as Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Athens and Sydney. Mary Joseph sent Watani live...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Al-Dustūr interviews Dr. Qadrī Hifnī and discusses Muslim–Christian relations.
Date of source: Sunday, January 24, 2010
The European Parliament has condemned the “systematic persecution” of Christians in Egypt and Malaysia. Egyptian diplomats worked in vain to prevent Egypt and Malaysia being tarred with the same brush. Some people criticized the decision as being the work of right-wing Christian European groups and...
Date of source: Friday, January 22, 2010
A candle-lit demonstration was organized in Saint Mark’s Cathedral, the Coptic Orthodox papal residency in Cairo, to protest against the attacks in Naj‘ Hammādī.
Date of source: Friday, January 22, 2010
The defendants in the al-Zaytūn case ask that their trial be postponed. They fear that the al-Zaytūn trial will be influenced by the Naj‘ Hammādī trial, which will take place at the same time.
Date of source: Sunday, January 24, 2010
This article deals with the arson of a number of Coptic owned homes in Upper Egypt. After the original five houses were set aflame on January 14th, additional security was added to the village. This did not, however, deter the arsonists from continuing to set two more houses on fire during the days...
Date of source: Sunday, January 24, 2010
This article deals with the multiple examples of Christian harassment by Muslims in Egypt, as well as in Malaysia. The incidents of Nag Hammadi in 2009, and the murder of 21 Copts in the village of el-Kusheh in 2000 are compared. However, the attack in Nag Hammadi is different than others because...
Date of source: Friday, January 22, 2010
The author reflects on and offers an in-depth analysis of the incident of Naj‘ Hammādī, in an attempt to answer the question “Who killed the Copts?”
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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.