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Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The salafī al-Nūr (Light) Party threatened to withdraw from the constituent assembly undertaking the writing of a new constitution for post-revolution Egypt and to bring together millions to refuse the constitution if Articles II and III were left unchanged in their current drafting in the 1971...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Azhar scholars lashed out at a Jewish member of Knesset (MK) for ripping up the New Testament for a copy of the Bible and claiming that it was behind Adolf Hitler’s destruction of Jews. [Hassan al-Khatīb, Veto, July 24, p. 8] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Possible presidential candidate Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā said if he ever became president of the republic he will apply the Islamic sharī’ah on everyone, adding he will never allow a religion in Egypt other than the three divine ones – Islam, Christianity and Judaism. [Sarhān Sinnārah, Umnīyah Karīm...
Date of source: Monday, September 5, 2011
This article is dealing with some common misunderstanding amongst many Egyptians that the hudūd are just about cutting off hands and flagellating liquor drinkers and unmarried adulterers and adulteresses, writes Mabrūk 'Atīyah in an article in al-Misrī al-Yawm newspaper.
Egypt is already applying...
Date of source: Sunday, July 10, 2011
Watanī newspaper has published a complaint by a Christian policeman of the name Midhat Hannā Jirjis, who lives in Banī Bakhīt, Beni Suef governorate and works for the Beni Suef Security Department.
In his complaint, Midhat says that he was accused of quitting his duty post one hour before his...
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2011
Khālid Muntasir writes an opinion article commenting on the last incident in Qena.
He recurrs to three other incidents which happened in Arab countries where no actions were taken against.
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2011
Hāzim 'Abd al-Rahman called what happened in Qena a' thuggery' which has to be dealt with strictly.
He called the perpetrators 'terrorists' who took away the power from the state by taking the justice into their own hands.
Salafist extremists had applied hadd on a citizen in Qena by cutting off his...
Date of source: Sunday, June 1, 2008
Hanī Labīb writes about the education system in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, April 3, 2008
In an interview with Mahmūd ‘Īsá, Muslim thinker Jamāl al-Bannā elaborates on many of his controversial stances and honors the Qur’ān as the only authentic point of reference for Muslims. He also declares that the divine influence of the Qur’ān is not in the human interpretation of the Qur’ānic...
Date of source: Sunday, February 17, 2008
The Supreme Administrative Court ruled last weekend in favor of 15 Christians who had converted to Islam and later reverted to their original Christianity and were officially accepted in the Church, and wished to claim their legal rights as Christians. While Christian public and human and...
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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.