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Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2014
‘Ādil Mājid is the vice-president of the Egyptian Court of Cassation, the nation’s supreme judicial body. He is an expert in international criminal law and anti-terrorism, and currently serves as special advisor to the Islamic Criminal Justice Project at Durham University in the United Kingdom,...
Date of source: Thursday, January 8, 2015
After a halting, stilted walk to receive me at the gate of the Zamalek Club, where he has become a near-celebrity, Husām al-Massāh opened our meeting with bombast.
“I have no party except the Egyptian Party!”
“I am a Coptic Muslim!”
“I was worth ten men on the committee!”
His verbal exuberance...
Date of source: Sunday, January 26, 2014
Mirvat al-Tallāwī is head of the National Council for Women and one of the fifty members of the committee to amend the 2012 constitution. After originally suggesting 20 names to the president hoping for a one-third female composition, the council received a note back asking this to be narrowed down...
Date of source: Thursday, January 23, 2014
On January 14th and 15th Egyptians cast their votes in the constitutional referendum. The official results presented by the High Elections Committee showed a 98.1% ‘yes’ vote with a turnout rate of 38.6%.[i] These results followed an aggressive media campaign in support of the constitution. To many...
Date of source: Thursday, January 16, 2014
On Friday, November 29, an article appeared in al-Fath, an independent Salafī newspaper, written by reporters Tāriq Bahgat and Walīd Mansūr. [1] The article reports on the discussion that took place between Bishop Bola, the representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the Constituent Assembly,...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Muhammad ‘Ablah was rather surprised to be selected for the Committee of Fifty to amend Egypt’s 2012 constitution. “I have been against the government and anti-regime my whole life,” he said.
An internationally acclaimed artist, ‘Ablah suspects his name was chosen in consultation between the Arts...
Date of source: Monday, May 20, 2013
Repeatedly we hear of reports that Muslims are attacking Christians. One such recent report is a clash in Alexandria in which one Christian died from a heart attack. “A fight started between two young men, one Copt and the other Muslim, when the Copt allegedly sexually harassed the latter's sister...
Date of source: Sunday, March 3, 2013
This interview was held on March 3, 2013 with the participation of researcher Jayson Casper and research assistant Diana Serôdio. It aimed at grasping Dr. Nadīyah Mustafá's perspective on the process through which the new Constitution came into being. The content of this interview was later used...
Date of source: Thursday, April 18, 2013
In a meeting with Dr. Amr Darrag ('Amr Darrāj), Secretary General of the Constituent Assembly, he mentioned that members of the Constituent Assembly signed texts after they had been agreed upon. Please see hereby a link to a document dated October 3, 2012, with the signatures of key members of the...
Date of source: Monday, April 8, 2013
Last Tuesday, the independent Cairo daily al-Youm al-Sabei printed a story on a meeting between a number of Coptic figures and representatives of the presidency. Having myself been among those Coptic figures, I would like to cite here what actually took place in that meeting.
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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.