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Date of source: Friday, November 27, 2015
In a move that has sent shock waves throughout Egypt, the Coptic Orthodox Pope, Tawadros II, traveled to Jerusalem Thursday at the head of a distinguished delegation of bishops from the Coptic Church. The short flight from Cairo to Tel-Aviv can be measured in minutes; the psychological distance...
Date of source: Monday, December 7, 2015
Pope Tawadros II, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, visited Jerusalem in November to pray over the body of Archbishop Anba Abrahām, the leader of the Coptic Church in the Holy Land. The visit caused much controversy in Egypt, and in particular in Egyptian media, literary and...
Date of source: Sunday, December 6, 2015
When the subject is Israel, passions flare.
Date of source: Sunday, March 29, 2015
In the first challenge to Pope Tawadros’ resolution restricting Egyptian Christians’ travel to Jerusalem for Easter celebrations, a number of pilgrims began the pilgrimage across Jordan heading toward Jerusalem. The Copts said that they did not regret making the decision to make the pilgrimage,...
Date of source: Friday, March 20, 2015
According to Brigade General Muhammad Rashad who is the former head of Egypt-Israel unit in the Egyptian military intelligence, “Israel supports terrorist groups in Sinai and groups such as the MB in order to destabilize Egypt”. Rashad added “Hamas is originally an Israeli project and they...
Date of source: Monday, March 23, 2015
The Egyptian Union for Human Rights: The visit to Jerusalem was a mistake
The Egyptian Union for Human Rights is going to hold conference tomorrow discussing whether its visit to Jerusalem aimed at normalising relationships between Egypt and Israel or lending political support to the Palestinian...
Date of source: Sunday, March 22, 2015
Ahmad Mansūr: The international organisation of the Muslim Brotherhood is infiltrated and needs to be dissolved
Mansūr states that the Muslim Brotherhood was infiltrated by the intelligence agencies of Jordan, Israel and Egypt as well as by the CIA. He goes on arguing that the Muslim Brotherhood...
Date of source: Sunday, August 30, 2015
In his essay on Religion and Politics, Kāmel `Abd al-Fattāh writes:
Egypt seems not to learn from its past experiences; every regime that ruled the country over decades now, repeat the same pattern of mingling religion with state affairs or religion with politics. Egyptian political regimes still...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Badrān: Personal status laws are creating a new generation of children on the streets
Doctor Hudā Badrān, the President of the Egyptian Women’s Union, said that Personal Status Laws are most focused on the role of the family, adding that the laws treat women as they were treated decades ago. She...
Date of source: Sunday, June 29, 2014
The relationship between expatriates living in Egypt and Ramadan can be a love-hate relationship. Some might argue that Ramadan is the ‘most unproductive month of the year’. People work less hours and businesses can get a bit slow. On the other hand, however, very few can deny the level of...
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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.