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Date of source: Saturday, July 6, 2019
The Ministry of Manpower and Immigration continued the “Egypt with you is beautiful” initiative in Alexandria in cooperation with the Fund of financing, training and rehabilitation. The initiative is resumed by holding its second training program for 6 days, to train 45 young men of both sexes with...
Date of source: Saturday, November 16, 2019
Dr. Ṭāriq Manṣūr writes about his personal reflections on the meaning of religious tolerance as seen from Islam and Christianity in Egypt. He focuses on examples from the Prophet’s life and the Quran [al-Qurān] that support religious tolerance from an Islamic perspective.
Date of source: Thursday, July 25, 2019
Dr. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Qunṣuwa, Governor of Alexandria, and the leaders of the Coptic denominations participated in the funeral of Bishop ʿĀdil Zakī, Apostolic Vicar of Alexandria for the Catholics of the Latin rite in Egypt, which took place at St. Catherine's Church in Alexandria on Wednesday evening.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Pope Tawāḍrūs II, pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, presided over mass at the Headquarters of the Church of the Archangel Michael [al-Malāk Mikhāʾīl] in Bayt al-Karma in King Maryūt, west of Alexandria on Wednesday evening. He was joined by 7 other general bishops, who...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 30, 2019
This text was earlier posted on July 29, 2019, on the SEKEM website and placed with permission of SEKEM in the Arab-West Report database. The Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) organized in 2018 a summer school with the Heliopolis University. In 2019 these became two summer schools; one...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Diana Sakakini [Diana al-Sakākīnī] was born in Milan, Italy, from the prestigious al-Sakākīnī family of Christian Syrian origins that has left indelible marks in Egypt as the majestic al-Sakākīnī Palace in Old Cairo testifies. She was educated in Italy but later returned to Egypt where her parents...
Date of source: Monday, October 7, 2019
As an Italian who has lived in Alexandria of Egypt for one year, every time I go back to this Mediterranean city, I feel extremely welcomed. Many inhabitants of Alexandria are willing to share with me their experience of interaction with the numerous Italians that once lived in that city. Similarly...
Date of source: Saturday, August 3, 2019
Bishop Silwanis, Bishop and Head of St. Anba Bākhūmius Monastery, in the city of Luxor, on Saturday morning, completed the ritual of the ordination of the monks of four monastic students in the monastery, with the participation of Bishop Yūsāb, Bishop of Luxor Diocese.
Date of source: Saturday, September 7, 2019
Mirna Hosni, a student at the Faculty of Pharmacy, British University, who won the first place in the world in the "Clinical Skills" competition, revealed details of her meeting and honoring by His Holiness Pope Tùwadrus II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, at the...
Date of source: Sunday, September 8, 2019
The Coptic Orthodox Church announced today that it will open a new section in the Institute of Coptic Studies to teach «Arab Christian heritage», for the first time, at the beginning of the new academic year 2019/2020, which sparked widespread controversy among Copts on social networking sites...
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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.