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Date of source: Monday, February 25, 2013
Shaykh Abū Islām has attempted to distance himself from his inflammatory comments about Coptic women. However, the prosecution sent the CDs, provided by Najīb Jubrā’īl, the lawyer, that prove Abū Islām's incitement of a fitnah and disturbance of national unity, to be transcribed by the Ministry of...
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2013
Barely three days have passed since the disappearance of two Coptic female students from one of the villages in Dayr Mawwās, in the South of Minya. The girls’ fathers have accused two Muslim men of being behind the disappearance (Muhamad al-Zahrāwī, al-Tahrīr, Feb. 18, p. 16). Read original text in...
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2013
Reviewing his achievements since his appointment as Grand Muftī of Egypt in 2003, Shaykh ‘Alī Jum’ah has become a leading advocate for moderation. He has revolutionized the process of issuing fatwás in Egypt, transforming Dār al-Iftā’ from an institution that was the extension of one individual (...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Spokesman of President Mursī, Dr. Yāsir ꞌAlī, yesterday commented on statements delivered by President Mursī on Egyptian Christians describing them as “minorities”. Accusing media of delivering false reports, ꞌAlī argued that media have taken President Mursī’s statements out of context and that the...
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: Sunday, February 12, 2012 to Sunday, March 25, 2018
The Coptic Catholic Church's Holy Synod, upon the wish of Cardinal Antonius Najīb, convened an extraordinary session on Wednesday (February 8) to discuss appointment of another head of the patriarchate due to health reasons for Archbishop Antonius.
After the meeting, the Holy Synod issued an...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 to Saturday, March 3, 2018
Shaykh Muhammad Hassān, an Islamic preacher, took 20,000 Salafists during a symposium in Beni Suef with an Italian young woman who recited the Muslim shahādah (creed) in both Arabic and English and declared her conversion to Islam amidst cheering and shrills of approval by the participants in the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 to Friday, March 2, 2012
Another sectarian problem between Muslims and Christians were defused by local residents in al-Fayoum after some priests of the St. Tadros El Shatby Church in the village of al-Khatīb attempted to build a fence circling a plot of land with the purpose of annexing it to the church.
Instructions were...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 to Friday, March 2, 2018
Security agencies in Suhāg ended sectarian strife between Muslims and Christians over financial differences, leaving four persons wounded.
The quarrel erupted between a 59-year-old Christian man and his two sons, all merchants of eggs – on one hand and a 47-year-old Muslim teacher on the other over...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2017
The Egyptian governorate of Aṣyūṭ [Assuit] is preparing in full swing to host international visitors to the path of the Holy Family Journey in Egypt after Pope Francis embraced the journey as an official Christian pilgrimage.
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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.