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Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2012
The ministry of finance on Thursday (January 19) started releasing compensations for the families of martyrs of the incidents and clashes that took place in the areas of Maspero, Muhammad Mahmūd street and the surroundings of the cabinet office and the People's Assembly headquarters during the past...
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2012
Muhammad al-Dimirdāsh, a legal advisor for the minister of insurances and social affairs, said that the draft law on NGOs was the outcome of the work of a committee that comprised several people working the civil society field.
During a first workshop to discuss the draft, Dimirdāsh said that there...
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Furthermore, the three Egyptian churches urged Prime Minister Dr. Kamāl al-Janzūrī to approve the law regulating the construction of houses of worship, "shelved since former prime minister 'Isām Sharaf took over. ['Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Jan. 15, p. 7]
Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2012
Nine rights advocacy organizations considered the re-forwarding of a draft on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by Abū al-Najā, “one of the figures of the former regime,” as more despotic than the current law and lending more control by the National Security Agency over activities of the civil...
Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2012
Dr. Muhammad Badī’, the Muslim Brotherhood Murshid (Guide), called on the new People’s Assembly to debate the issues foreign loans and assistance to Egypt.
“The assistance must be channeled through legitimate courses with the knowledge of the Egyptian government without any conditions,” said Badī’...
Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2012
The government approved on Wednesday (January 18) a draft decree law to re-organize the Azhar and its affiliated bodies, known as the Azhar Independence Law, according to Minister of Planning & International Cooperation Fāyzah Abū al-Najā. [Mansūr Kāmil, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Jan. 19, p. 3]
“The...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb said that all documents, statements and decisions as well as meetings held at the Azhar headquarters throughout last year was not an attempt to get the top Sunni Muslim establishment to play a political role but rather out of keenness on the nation's...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
A draft law on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) held that foreign organizations may practice activities while their dissolution must be through coordination with the foreign ministry.
The draft also prohibited offering refuge for children and the elderly except through official license in...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Addressing the inauguration of the cultural season of the Azhar's Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs on Monday (January 16), Muftī of the Republic Shaykh 'Alī Jum'ah said there was no group called virtue-promoting and vice-preventing organization during the time of the Prophet Muhammad.
Jum'ah...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah's Building and Development Party, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party (ESDP), al-Karāmah (Dignity) Party and the Reform and Development Party (RDP) agreed that the party with the majority of seats would name a...
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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.