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Date of source: Monday, October 9, 2006
Sectarian tension erupted in Assuit’s peaceful village of Bahīj after Yūsuf Fathī Ni‘nā‘, a Copt, declared his Islam amidst strong opposition from his family.
Date of source: Sunday, October 8, 2006
The story of a Coptic girl who claims she was kidnapped and asked to convert to Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, September 24, 2006
The author emphasizes the importance of monastic life for the Coptic Orthodox Church. It describes its history and gives suggestions for boosting monastic life.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 25, 1997
Subtitles:The
leaders of terrorism who have escaped to London.1- The escaped terrorist Adel Abdel
Hamied raises
funds from the Islamic center to finance terrorism.2- Moustafa Hamza leads the training in
the
terrorist farms in Sudan.The author discusses the West’s involvement in terrorism in...
Date of source: Sunday, September 21, 1997
Romani
Shafiek Agieb is a student who was persecuted by the University
of Asiut, Faculty of Education, after being
refused the right to nominate himself as a lecturer and then a
university professor. As a result, many
Egyptian Copts offered to help the student finish his higher education...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 17, 1997
Subtitle:Saad Zaghloul distributed
bibles to excellent students and made, for the first time, the study of
Christianity a scholastic
subjectNot mentioning the religion on the identity card is an important request.
Syria did it, but
Egypt continues to refuseThere is a belief that Copts are rich...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 27, 1997
Security sources have presented brigadier-general Hassan El Alfi, the minister of interior, with a
detailed
report about the secret tunnels which were recently discovered in Upper Egypt. The report, which was
produced after a photographic inspection of the tunnels, showed that there were more...
Date of source: Sunday, August 17, 1997
A piece of land
in Assuit was donated by citizens for the building of a mosque, and it was
decided by the authorities to
destroy all property already on that land. However, two brothers claim that the land
was not owned by the
generous citizens, but actually belonged to them. They say they...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 23, 1997
Subtitles:Abdel Nasser did not differentiate in nationalizing Coptic or Islamic capitalNo single Copt was in the highest positions of the Front of the Liberal Officers. The only Copt was in the second lineAbdel Nasser joined the priests and hit secularismThe revolutionaries were the first to invent...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 22, 1997
Dr. Milad Hanna, one of Egypt’s most prominent Christians, author of many books on Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt and columnist in Al-Ahram, is very dismayed about the proposed American religious freedom law. In an article in Al-Ahram of July 22 he writes that there are sectarian clashes which...
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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.