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Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2011
Mamdūḥ Ismā'īl, Islamic attorney, launched a campaign to collect signatures that support the discharge of Yaḥyā al-Jamāl, Deputy Prime Minister, accusing him of blasphemy.
Ismāʿīl collected one hundred thousand signatures from the governorates of Cairo, Giza, al-Qalyūbiyya, and Alexandria.
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Date of source: Thursday, March 24, 2011
A group of Cairo based lawyers accused Deputy Prime Minister Yaḥyā al-Jamāl of having insulted Islam in a TV talk show on March 14. They charge al-Jamāl with committing a civil crime and aim to evoke the blasphemy law against him, which allows for a maximum penalty of three years imprisonment.
Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2011
Egypt's right groups, legal experts and revolutionaries on 24 March 2011 balked at the government's approval of a draft law to criminalize protests.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Many more Egyptians are reading opposition newspapers these days. Al-Ahrām is alleged to have lost senventy percent of its' readers since the revolution. Al-Wafd, Al-Shurūq and Al-Misrī Al-Yawm have proven to be very popular these days.
Furthermore, newspapers have also realized the importance of...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
The revolution in Egypt left the local media scene of Egypt completely changed. State-owned media used to be completely unreliable, but now they have altered their policies. The state media are also experiencing changes in leadership.
However, the process is definitely not completed yet. Experts...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
A few days after returning to classes for the second semester, students at Egypt's public universities have started massive protests against the administrators [In the headline by 'Sir' they mean the administrators of the universities] of their institutions, demanding they be sacked for being part...
Date of source: Monday, March 7, 2011
This article was first published in:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/marchweb-only/behindegyptrevolution.html
Editor AWR: Paul-Gordon Chandler gives a good picture of Christian and Muslim cooperation which does exist but he neglects the negative examples and thus his presentation has...
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According to the Pew Research Center, US media attention for the Egyptian protests has exceeded every foreign policy story over the last four years, commanding 56% of all news coverage.
Date of source: Thursday, January 13, 2011
The article mentions an Internet campaign working to fight sectarian tensions and foster Muslim-Christian unity.
The campaign was developed by prominent Islamic telepreacher ‘Amr Khālid after sectarian and inflammatory comments were posted on social networking websites.
According to the report,...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 4, 2011
This article in the Egyptian Mail tells the story of Ashraf Munīr, a 40-year-old man who survived the Two Saints Church attack.
He left the church a few seconds before the blast, just in time to see the bloody scene outside . In the article he describes the "hell-ish scene" he had to watch: parts...
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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.