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Date of source: Saturday, February 18, 2012 to Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Shaykh Sharīf al-Hawwārī, a notable Salafist in the western Alexandria town of al-‘Āmrīyah, pledged to bring back the five Coptic families expelled over a purported love affair between a Christian man and a divorced Muslim woman to their homes.
Date of source: Friday, February 17, 2012
A group of Coptic movements, which groups Christian and Muslim activists, protested outside parliament to condemn the forced displacement of Christian families from al-'Āmrīyah and acts of violence in the village of Mīt Bashār in al-Sharqia governorate.
"The Coptic Coalition Movement and other...
Date of source: Friday, February 17, 2012 to Monday, April 16, 2018
A Muslim family hosted the family of Coptic local resident Abū Sulaymān that was forced to leave their homes in the sectarian incidents in the north Egyptian Mediterranean city.
"These families are our brethren. Not only we're hosting them in our homes but we are also hosting them in our hearts," a...
Date of source: Friday, February 17, 2012 to Monday, April 16, 2018
Youths from the Salafī al-Nūr (Light) Party and al-Da'wah al-Salafīyah (Salafī Call) group rejected the expulsion of Christians from al-'Āmrīyah, according to al-Nūr's official spokesman Nādir Bakkār.
"The Salafīs have defended the Christians, protected them from local residents' wrath and...
Date of source: Friday, February 17, 2012 to Monday, April 16, 2018
A parliament's fact-finding commission investigating the sectarian fitnah in al-'Āmrīyah, western Alexandria, sparked by a reportedly illegitimate affair between a Christian young man and a Muslim woman, concluded its activities on Wednesday (February 16) by obtaining an agreement on the return of...
Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2012 to Sunday, April 15, 2018
A statement issued by the general local council in Alexandria condemned the decisions made at the end of an ‘urfī meeting on al-‘Āmrīyah incidents.
The statement described the decisions as ones of “submission to the wishes of the assailants and inciters for vandalizing the property of some of the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2012 to Sunday, April 15, 2018
A security source said the family of the Christian young man accused of taking photos on his cell phone in Sharbāt village, al-Nahdah area, in the Alexandria district of al-‘Āmrīyah, already left the village before the story was found out while the family of the Muslim woman and her husband...
Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2012 to Sunday, April 15, 2018
Quiet prevailed in the village of Mīt Bashār on Wednesday (February 15) after a heated night of confrontations between security forces and local residents, leaving five anti-riot policemen wounded, over the disappearance of a Coptic girl of the name Rānyā Khalīl Ibrāhīm, who converted to Islam six...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 to Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Some parties and a group of civil society organizations issued a statement on the forced displacement of Christian families in which they said that there is religious fanaticism in the society for many reasons, topped by the practices and schemes of the former regime, which still continue under the...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 to Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Alexandria Governor Dr. Usāmah al-Fūlī said denied that the deported families were seven, adding some satellite channels exaggerated things in a "community that is enjoying calm and stability" after the incidents that erupted late January 2012.
"The 'urfī session, which I attended myself, only...
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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.