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Date of source: Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Dozens of Egyptian activists resumed their protest outside the Israeli embassy, in Giza, for the fifth day in a row, calling for the Israeli ambassador to be ordered out of Egypt, and two Egyptian lawyers have filed a lawsuit to force the Supreme Court of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to withdraw the...
Date of source: Monday, August 15, 2011
Prominent Islamist Sheikh Mohamed Amer has declared that Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, supreme commander of the Egyptian armed forces, should be considered "leader of the faithful" due to his current capacity as military ruler of the country.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 29, 2011
The Egyptian authorities must immediately launch an independent and impartial investigation into the conduct of security forces at demonstrations, Amnesty International said amid continuing protests in central Cairo.
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
It goes without saying that a comprehensive process for reformulating Egyptian politics is just around the corner.
The last constitutional amendments have limited presidential terms to a maximum of four years, with candidates eligible to serve no more than two terms, and have stipulated the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The elections are swiftly approaching and none of the new parties has yet officially been endorsed.
They might not have a chance of victory in the coming elections. The public and the revolutionaries have been concerned lately, as they did not go through all the trouble of launching a revolution to...
Date of source: Sunday, May 1, 2011
No matter what the outcome of the Qena governor predicament until these lines go into print, the core of this article remains true and pressing. The appointment earlier this month of a Coptic governor to the southern province of Qena provoked widespread demonstrations by hardline Islamist Qinawis....
Date of source: Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Al-Nūr Mosque in the al-'Abasīyah district in Cairo has witnessed unrest in recent weeks.
The land on which the mosque was built was originally given to al-Hidāyah al-Islāmīyah Society, headed by Shaykh Hāfiz Salāmah.
Its followers prevented the mosque preacher, Shaykh Ahmad Turk, from ascending...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 13, 2011
On Saturday April 9, the police detained political activist Wā’il Abū Layl for 15 days, due to his alleged acts of violence against demonstrators on Tahrīr Square.
Following a conference of the 25 January Revolution Youth Coalition, political activists accused the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) for being...
Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 2010
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Our reading of the Cairo papers this week takes us to the weekly, State-owned al-Mussawar and the file it recently published on “Do Copts hate the July Revolution?” In his article entitled, “Copts under Jamāl 'Abd al-Nāsir,” Midhat Bishāy attempted to cite both the...
Date of source: Monday, August 2, 2010
The author analyzes the state of the Muslim Brotherhood party, mentioning the state's role as well as the role of the party.
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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.