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Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Copts resumed demonstrating outside a police station in Naja' Hammādī, the Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena, for the fifth day running as Bishop Kyrillos called for hastily arresting the culprits in the murder of two Copts in Bahjūrah village after they refused to pay an itāwah (protection money...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Sectarian fitnah ignited anew on Monday (January 30) in the village of Sharbāt, al-Nahdah district, western Alexandria, where young men attacked several houses and stores owned by Christians, started fire and pelted stones, leaving three stores ablaze
The second conciliatory session, held on...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Muftī of the Republic Shaykh 'Alī Jum'ah said Egypt is an Islamic nation that respects the rights of Copts as partners in the nation, noting the Iftā' House pursues a moderate approach. [Muhammad Hijāb, Khālid Ahmad al-Mat'anī and Sāmī al-Qamhāwī, al-Ahrām, Feb. 1, p. 3]
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Informed sources said the Advisory Council offered proposals to SCAF on the ways and criteria to pick members of the constituent panel to draft a constitution in a way that will be expressive of all groups in the Egyptian society. [Nashwá al-Hawfī and Sarah Nūr al-Dīn, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Feb. 1, p....
Date of source: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Counselor Tharwat Hammād, the examining judge mandated by the justice minister to investigate acts of violence and clashes outside Egypt's state TV & radio building in the area of Maspero on October 9, 2011, which left dozens killed or wounded, ordered the release of Egyptian TV anchorwoman...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) reiterated condemnation of "attempts to provoke the group's youths" in al-Tahrīr Square during celebrations marking the January 25, 2011 revolution's first anniversary.
"Everyone knows that the group's youths are capable of deterring those persons who went too far and...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, said there should be no concerns over the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafīs in power, adding the Egyptian people from now on would be watching everyone in public office and all political parties in all their different orientations.
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Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2012
Subhī Sālih, a member of parliament from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), said there are some attempts to spark a falling out between youths in al-Tahrīr Square and parliament on one hand and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on the other.
“Throwing bottles...
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2012
A military court decided to adjourn the cases of virginity tests and Maspero incidents to the February 5-6 sessions.
Plaintiff Samīrah Ibrāhīm attended a court session on Sunday (January 29) with her lawyers in the case in which drafted physician Ahmad ‘Ādil al-Mūjī is standing trial over...
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2012
Egyptian political activist and blogger Michael Nabīl, who spent 302 days before SCAF pardoned him on the first anniversary of the January 25, 2011 revolution, said he spent very long times in solitary confinement.
“Even if I was allowed mingling with other prisoners, they are strictly ordered...
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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.