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Date of source: Friday, February 11, 2011
President Mubarak resigned today. We have witnessed much of the events leading up to his resignation showing that reporting in the West provided a biased image. Images of Tahrir Square dominated most media since January 25 but little was reported about other parts of the country.
Foreigners...
Date of source: Thursday, February 10, 2011
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. While initially surprising, upon reflection this story hits at the conjunction of many popular flashpoints:...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Editor-in-chief Cornelis Hulsman: Dr. Michael Burslem (78) is a retired Canadian medical doctor and is a longtime friend of mine. He and his wife usually spend the winter months in Cairo when weather is substantially more pleasant in Egypt then in Canada and they spend the summers in Canada when...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2011
The article of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz reports about the Azhar’s indefinite suspension of interfaith dialogue with the Vatican.
Pope Benedict XVI’s repeated criticism on Islam and his calls for increased protection of Christians in Egypt and the Middle East are named as main reasons for the Azhar’s freeze of...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2011
Ahmad Kamāl 'Abū al-Majd says that the unified law for building places of worship must be passed. He also supports a law to combat discrimination based on origin, gender, or religion.
'Abū al-Majd alleges that the only one who has an interest in creating division in Egypt is the one who want to get...
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2011
Yūsuf Sidhum provides a contextual analysis of the recent attack on the Church of the Two Saints, Saint Mark and Pope Peter in Alexandria.
He says that even though authorities suspect foreign involvement in the terror plot, the attack could not have been carried out unless the foreign groups in...
Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2011
In this editorial, Yūsuf Sidhum comments on the outpouring of anger on behalf of many Coptic Christians following the attack on a church in Alexandria that left 24 dead.
Sidhum alleges that this reaction comes not only because of the recent bombing, but as the result of a "long history of blatant...
Date of source: Thursday, January 20, 2011
The article reports that although the forensic final report on the Alexandria attacks is out, security officials still “have nothing to say to media about the bombing”. Al-Qā’idah is still suspected to be behind the attack, after having made several threats to attack churches in Egypt. Pope...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Al-Dustūr quotes informed sources saying that a "sovereign party" has gained "confirmed information of the involvement of the Israeli Mossad in the [Two Saints Church] explosion in cooperation with Egyptian elements.”
The paper further says “Egyptian security authorities had spotted an Israeli...
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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.