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Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
People's Assembly member Ahmad al-Sahafi wants to know what the Egyptian Ministry of Endowments has done to encourage imāms to push for acceptance and co-existence between the country's Copts and Muslims, especially in light of the New Year's Day attack on a church in Alexandria.
According to a...
Date of source: Sunday, December 19, 2010
Egypt's Minister of Legal Affairs, Dr. Mufīd Shihāb, hosted a party at the Syrian Club in Alexandria last Friday in which he denied all rumours of fitnah tā’ifīyah in Egypt.
He said that all talks of such tensions are but rumors aimed to break Egypt’s firm stability between its people of both...
Date of source: Sunday, November 28, 2010
Rūmānī Sādiq Girgis was arrested after his recovery yesterday at the Um al-Misriyyīn Hospital for allegedly participating in last Wednesday’s ‘Umrāniyyah riots. 157 suspects have been arrested in total, all of which have been transferred to the Turah facilities. Calmness has reportedly returned to...
Date of source: Sunday, November 28, 2010
Majdī says although last Wednesday’s ‘Umrāniyyah riots are considered by many Coptic activists to be fitnah tā’ifīyah, several eye witnesses testified otherwise. One man says that the event was a dispute over a building and has nothing to do with religion. One of the builders at the site, a Muslim...
Date of source: Sunday, November 28, 2010
Majdī talks about last Wednesday’s ‘Umrāniyyah riots, which he says qualify as a revolution. He says even though many experts have been interviewed about the incident on talk shows, many questions remain unanswered, such as whether the incident qualifies as a fitnah tā’ifīyah.
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Date of source: Saturday, November 20, 2010
Du‘ā’ talks about the mixed reactions amongst the ecclesial society regarding the annual report issued by the United States Department of State. The report heavily criticized religious freedom in Egypt because of the government’s alleged discrimination against Christians and Bahā’īs. The report was...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 16, 2010
The article talks about Pope Shenouda III’s courtesy visit to the Azhar, where he congratulated Grand Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyib on the ‘Īd al-Adhá, which coincides with the Pope’s 39th anniversary of ordination. They said that the Azhar and the Coptic Orthodox Church reject calls for fitnah tā’ifīyah...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
The Director of the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, Dr. Ikrām Lam‘ī, talks to Al-Dustūr on subjects of controversy between the Orthodox and Protestant churches of Egypt. He blames fitnah tā’ifīyah on the Orthodox Church and the Azhar and claims that if it weren’t for the Protestant...
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 2010
Dr. ‘Abd Allāh al-Ash‘al is a controversial figure who stepped down from his former position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2003. In an interview with al-Dustūr, al-Ash‘al talks about several issues, such as Israel’s former president’s claims about his country’s plans to infiltrate...
Date of source: Thursday, November 4, 2010
Minister of Endoments Dr. Hamdī Zaqzūq condemned the Iraqi “Sayyidat al-Najāh” massacre, saying that such actions do not represent Islamic values. He also said that he does not accept foreign entities interfering with Egyptian internal affairs, national unity, or the safety of the Egyptian people,...
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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.