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Date of source: Monday, May 30, 2011
Construction work on the Virgin Mary Church in Imbābah will end next Saturday, June 4, 2011. The construction work is being carried out as a result of incidents of fitnah that sparked there.
Al-Giza governorate paid all the expenses of the construction and compensation paid to the victims families...
Date of source: Friday, May 27, 2011
The military court issued a decision to freeze imprisoning 'Abīr Fakhrī, Imbābah sedition-monger. They will reconsider her sentence on June 9, 2011.
The State Security prosecution is investigating the incidents in Imbābah. On a different note, the State Security prosecution is considering the...
Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2011
From the second day of the Imbābah incidents, a commission was formed, which included 35 elders from Muslim and Christian clerics.
This commission is formed to study the reason of the incident from its roots, as well as to approach businessmen and NGOs to fundraise EGP20 M for the victims families...
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2011
A meeting was held between Muslims and Christian clerics and civil society entitled, "Egypt's sons serving Egypt," and with the slogan "Conciliatory to face fitnah tā'ifīyah through developing projects that serve poor towns."
During the meeting, the governor of Giza decided to facilitate...
Date of source: Friday, May 20, 2011
In al-Jumhūrīyah, page 1, May 20, 2011, reports noted that the Coptic Maspero protests may be solved after a decision to reopen four churches and the release of Coptic detainees in Maspero incidents, proven to be not involved in the incident.
Date of source: Saturday, May 21, 2011
Hundreds of Imbābah district residents made a protest in solidarity with Muslims and Christians, stating that fitnah was pacified assuring that "Muslim and Christians are one hand."
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Date of source: Sunday, May 22, 2011
A number of lawyers and human rights activists filed a report with the Public Prosecutor about the news story published in al-Wafd Newspaper entitled, "Muslim girl says Copts kidnapped her, tattooed cross on her hand [translation of the article by AWR]".
Filers of the reports said that the...
Date of source: Friday, May 20, 2011
Testimonies of 'Abīr Sālim 'Abd al-Fatāh, living in Imbābah, were contradicting. She claimed to be kidnapped from Maspero in the midst of March, 2011 by unknown individuals, allegedly Christians.
[Reviewer's Note: Newspaper confused the incidents of both stories of 'Abīr Tal'at Fakhrī and Raghdah...
Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2011
Archpriest 'Abd al-Masīh Basīt, a professor the Holy Book at the Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox College, linked the incidents of Imbābah district in Giza to the appearance of Kāmīliyā Shihātah on the Christian channel al-Hayāh.
"One of the objectives of the Imbābah developments was to respond to the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Ignoring a petition from Pope Shenouda III, hundreds of Copts yesterday continued a nine-day sit-in outside the official TV Building near the Cairo Nile, as investigations proved recent clashes in the area were not religiously motivated. More Copts joined the protest asking for perpetrators in...
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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.