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Date of source: Sunday, January 22, 2012
U.S. President Barack Obama expressed during a phone call on Friday (January 20) with Field Marshal Tantāwī over the crackdown launched by the government in Egypt on the civil society organizations, underlining the importance of the role played by NGOs.
Obama reiterated support of the United...
Date of source: Sunday, January 22, 2012
Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī, Commander-in-Chief and Chairman of the ruling caretaker Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), issued a decision on Saturday (Jan. 21) appointing ten People's Assembly members, which is starting its maiden session on Monday (Jan. 23).
The list includes...
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Several Coptic and Muslim Brotherhood thinkers called for assuring Copts and belie rumors that only aim to spark fitnah between the two groups in the society, particularly in the light of the critical stage Egypt is experiencing and which requires everyone to enhance cooperation and unity.
Coptic...
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2012
Writer Jamāl al-Bannā demanded the abolition of Article 2 of the Egyptian constitution that spells out Islam as the official religion of the state and that the sharī'ah is the main source of legislation, adding "there is absolutely no need for it."
By removing Article 2, citizenship will become a...
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2012
A large number of activists and representatives of political movements on Thursday (January 19), started a march demanding the release of blogger Michael Nabīl, chanting slogans rejecting that civilians be brought before military courts.
Nabīl's father, who participated in the march that started...
Date of source: Saturday, January 21, 2012
Security forces managed to restore tranquility to the village of al-Rahmānīyah Qiblī, Naja' Hammādī, Qena governorate, after clashes between Muslims and Christians broke out after differences over a plot of land own by the state. [Amīr al-Sarrāf, al-Wafd, Jan. 21, p. 3]
Date of source: Saturday, January 21, 2012
Calm has returned to the area of Ibn al-Hakam, Shubrā al-Khaymah, al-Qalyubia governorate, 30 kilometers north of Cairo, where a rumor on turning warehouses into a church was about to spark confrontations between Muslims and Copts.
Copts wanted to hold the Epiphany Mass inside a warehouse owned...
Date of source: Saturday, January 21, 2012
The Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo approved by majority during its annual meeting on Friday (January 20) on the ordaining of women as priests for the first time in the history of all Christian denomination in Egypt.
Pastor Rif'at Fikrī, Chairman of the ETSC's information committee, said...
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2012
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter called for supporting Islamists in Egypt because this would serve the interests of democracy, freedom and stability in the Middle East region.
What is going on in Egypt would be enhancing democracy, human rights and freedom, Carter said in statements to CNN,...
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2012
In the governorate of al-Qalyubia, 30 kilometers north of Cairo, the district of Shubrā al-Khaymah was the scene of sit-in strikes and road blocking upon rumors some building in the area will be turned into a church.
More than 300 Salafists in the neighborhood of Ibn al-Hakam stormed their way...
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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.