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Date of source: Sunday, March 18, 2012
“Non-Muslims are free to their own faiths and we have to offer them amity and peace if they do not fight us,” said ‘Awwā during a rally next to the al-Fayoum cultural center on Friday (March 16), adding only true believers (Muslims) will apply the Islamic sharī’ah and be fair between Muslims and...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Counselor Walīd Mas’ūd, head Burj al-‘Arab Prosecution Office, has ordered that the individual suspected of having killed five people in Alexandria be remanded under custody pending investigation. The suspect claims he was taking vengeance for their mistreatment of him (Shīrīn Tāhir, al-Wafd, Feb....
Date of source: Thursday, January 17, 2013
The village of Fanūs, Tāmīyah Township of al-Faiyum Governorate, witnessed today a new fitnah tā'ifīyah after mosques in surrounding villages called on their microphones on Muslims to go and help their Muslim brethren in the village of Fanūs, because Christians were "building a church." The...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 to Tuesday, April 10, 2018
The Salafī al-Nūr Party in the governorate of al-Fayoum precluded a fitnah that almost erupted between a Muslim landlord and a Christian tenant in the town of Sinnūris.
'Abd al-'Azīm 'Abd al-Hamīd and his sons sought last week to terminate the contract of Dāwūd 'Azmī Fahmī and have him out of his...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 to Tuesday, April 10, 2018
The Salafī al-Nūr Party in the governorate of al-Fayoum precluded a fitnah that almost erupted between a Muslim landlord and a Christian tenant in the town of Sinnūris.
'Abd al-'Azīm 'Abd al-Hamīd and his sons sought last week to terminate the contract of Dāwūd 'Azmī Fahmī and have him out of his...
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: Saturday, August 5, 2017
Archaeologists have called Fayūm "Little Egypt" as it resembles ancient Egypt in its terrain.
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2016
The Minister of Antiquities, Dr. Khālid Al- ‘Anānī, pledged to contribute to the completion of the renovation work of the ancient Qaitbay mosque in Fayyūm, and to reopen it for the citizens after the residents participated in and contributed to the cost of the renovation.
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Background:This recording is of a press conference with Dr. Zāhī Ḥāwās, the-then Chief Inspector of the Giza Pyramid Plateau. He speaks about recent excavations the difficulties with promoting tourism and at the same time preserving historic sites and the future of the Giza plateau.
Side A:Dr. Zāhī...
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Cornelis Hulsman had been invited to a lecture in Hofgeismar, Germany, about his research about the violence around the Monastery of Abū Fānā, Egypt. Prof. Karl Pinggéra opened the conference with a reference to the Egyptian Holy Family tradition. Hulsman responded to this by linking...
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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.