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Date of source: Saturday, May 2, 1998
Naguib Sawiras, the famous Coptic business man answers questions about his relationship with the press.
Date of source: Thursday, April 30, 1998
Radio Monte Carlo broadcasted an episode of its program Hot Circuit to discuss the relationship between the American draft law on religious persecution and the emigrated Copts.
Date of source: Thursday, April 30, 1998
The Shura Council announced a series of changes in the editorial positions of several newspapers and magazines. The most controversial of this was the appointment of Mohammed Abdel Moniem as board chairman and chief editor of the of the weekly magazine Rose Al-Yousef.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 6, 1998
A preacher forbids the celebration of Egypt’s most popular feast.
Date of source: Thursday, April 30, 1998
Sheik Tantawi, the sheik of Al-Azhar mosque denied having told the French interior minister that Muslim women in France may forgo wearing the veil in schools according to a report by Agance France Presse, denied by MENA.
Date of source: Monday, May 4, 1998
15 members of the Azhar scholar’s front met and decided to change the president, the secretary general and the first deputy of the front. The three that were ousted were the same people who led the campaign against the Sheik of the Azhar. A spokesman for the front was also appointed to block the...
Date of source: Friday, May 1, 1998
A review of the role of the Shari’a judge in courts with a short history up to the present, including the referral of death verdicts to the Mufti.
Date of source: Monday, April 27, 1998
Pope Shenouda opened in Austria an exhibit on Coptic art.
Date of source: Monday, April 27, 1998
The old Islamic houses in Cairo dating from the 17th and 18th century are restored.
Date of source: Sunday, April 26, 1998
Watani, a paper owned by Copts which has always advocated Coptic issues, denounces the proposed American Freedom of Religious Persecution Act.
" The use of the terms ’persecution’ and ’racial discrimination’ are very far from the reality of Copts" the paper writes which doesn’t mean there are...
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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.