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Date of source: Saturday, May 25, 2013
AWR's intern Myles Ormerod reviewed articles of incidents that were not covered in Egyptian newspapers, but came in online foreign media on May 25, 2013, tackling Muslim-Christians relations and/or Coptic issues.
Date of source: Monday, November 5, 2012
Counselor Muhammad ‘Abd al-Salām, the Attorney-General for the Western Alexandria Prosecutions, on Sunday (November 4) ordered the arrest of Mahmūd Salīm ‘Abd al-Jawād, an owner of a bookshop in al-Dab’ah, Mersa Matrouh governorate, on charges of abducting 14-year-old Christian girl Sarah Ishaq ‘...
Date of source: Friday, October 5, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī asked the public prosecutor to release the two Christian children remanded under investigative custody on charges of disdaining religion, said Coptic activist and lawyer Najīb Jabrā’īl. [Wafā’ al-Kāshif, al-Ahrām, Oct. 5, p. 2] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Thursday, September 27, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī has reiterated that all Egyptians enjoy the same rights and duties and that there is no Christian minority in Egypt, said presidential spokesman Yāsir ‘Alī, commenting on U.S. President Barack Obama’s statements on Copts’ rights in Egypt. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām,...
Date of source: Friday, September 21, 2012
Deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Dr. Rafīq Habīb said the groups that hail the dissolution of the parliament only aim to block any success by Islamists and then corner the president to call for repeating the presidential elections. [Author Not Mentioned,...
Date of source: Thursday, September 20, 2012
Washington Post published an article by the Muftī of the Republic Dr. 'Alī Jum'ah with the title "Prophet Muhammad is ‘the mercy to all worlds’ to Muslims: Egypt’s mufti" on September 18, 2012.
Date of source: Monday, September 17, 2012
Members of the Egyptian Family House, headed by the Azhar's Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, issued a statement refusing the film dishonoring Prophet Muhammad. The statement included leaders of the three main Christian denominations in Egypt.
They statement continues that the film angered Muslims...
Date of source: Thursday, August 16, 2012
Today’s overview includes yet another quarrel between two Muslim and Christian families only nearly a week after the Dahshūr crisis first stirred by a burnt shirt was settled. However, this quarrel in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag has some similarity to the Dahshūr problem; a trivial...
Date of source: Friday, July 20, 2012
Sherif Gadallah, a lawyer from Alexandria has submitted a report to the public prosecutor, against the president of the court of appeal, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, the interim Pope of Alexandria as well as President Mohamed Morsy requesting the exclusion of Copts from the committee in...
Date of source: Saturday, August 4, 2012
Security agencies in Giza identified 16 suspected perpetrators involved in the incidents in the troubled village of Dahshūr, where Copts’ stores and houses were pillaged and burnt during the past few days. [Muhammad Shūmān, al-Ahrām, Aug. 4, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
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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.