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Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 2021
U.S. Ambassador to Egypt (retired) and former president of the American University of Cairo (AUC) wrote a letter of recommendation to the UNHCR in support of the CAWU learning centre for refugees. The UNHCR never responded (Aug. 2024).
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2021
Being a refugee in a country that is not one’s own is difficult. That person is neither equal to the citizens of the host country, nor are they able to return to their own country. The only effective way to support refugees in any country is through education, giving individual refugees the skills...
Date of source: Friday, February 12, 2021
As part of the Diakonia Development Office's continued pursuit for human development in various respects, in affiliation with the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate, the Sudanese Service Initiative continues to meet its objectives. Such objectives include the integration of Sudanese brothers of different...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 23, 2020
The Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese in Port Said [Būr Saʿīd] issued a statement thanking President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī regarding the Christians of al-ʿArīsh, who have been forced to leave their homes in al-ʿArīsh and move to other governorates to live.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 11, 2020
It was a ten-day walk from the village of Erra in Eritrea to Sudan. Aman and Meron, are two students at the CAWU Learning center in Cairo. They left their family behind at age 14 and 17. Annually tens of thousands of Eritreans leave the country to escape the harsh compulsory military service. Just...
Date of source: Sunday, September 13, 2020
General ʿĀdil al-Ghaḍbān, governor of Port Said [Būr Saʿīd], caused a crisis for the displaced Copts from al-ʿArīsh, who have been living in the governorate since 2017, after informing families that he will no longer be paying for the money that helps them pay rent. Despite the number of displaced...
Date of source: Monday, September 7, 2020
Diakonia Development Office, affiliated to the Catholic Church in Egypt, has launched a ‘Sudanese Services’ initiative. This initiative will come under the patronage of Father Ibrāhīm Isḥaq, Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt, and the supervision of Father Kīrilus Naẓīm, officer for...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 17, 2020
World Refugee Day has been celebrated annually on June 20 since 2001. This year Egypt’s Supreme Higher Committee for Human Rights cooperated with the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Department for Immigration, Refugees and Combating Human Trafficking, to review national efforts to support issues...
Date of source: Saturday, April 25, 2020
Ṣafāʾ Mūsā, a Sudanese refugee living in Egypt, says “We will die from starvation, not from Corona” thereby pointing at the problems she faces during the holy month of Ramadan. Like Mūsā, many other African refugees in Egypt are affected by the measures taken by the government to fight the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 16, 2020
Migration means being uprooted, not only from the country you live in, but also from the social networks that you have build up throughout the course of your life. Now the migrant has to build a new life in a new country.
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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.