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Date of source: Thursday, May 17, 2007
During its campaigns for the Shūrá Council elections, the Muslim Brotherhood issued an electoral platform that underlines the importance of general freedoms. Believing that Copts are welcome to all posts, it also supports the role played by the church in implementing social norms. The platform is...
Date of source: Friday, September 15, 2006
International Religious Freedom Report 2006, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Date of source:
Mustafa Mashhour,
the general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, has been diagnosed as having a blood clot in the brain and is expected to
die. Brotherhood members refuse to answer questions concerning his successor. Observers recognize three candidates and
one of them is the official spokesman of...
Date of source: Friday, February 16, 2007
A riot in 721 AH, during the rule of Sulṭān Muḥammad Bin Qalāwūn, left 51 churches ruined in various cities in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, January 29, 2007
The daughter of Sāmī ‘Aṭīyah, who was killed by a Muslim bully, held her wedding ceremony at Mary Antonius Church in al-Zaqāzīq, wearing black instead of her wedding dress, to protest against the security’s failure to apprehend the suspect and to their collusion with him.
Date of source: Monday, January 22, 2007
Sectarian clashes erupted in the Delta town of al-Zaqāzīq, following the alleged killing of a 53- year-old Copt, Sāmī ‘Aṭīyah ‘Awaḍ, by Tāmir Sāmī, a 24-year-old Muslim. The family of ‘Awaḍ accused the police of turning a blind eye to all acts of violence committed against Copts.
Date of source: Sunday, January 7, 2001
The number of articles published about Christmas reflects the attention the Egyptian press paid to celebrations of it. The article gives a list of the articles published in five newspapers.
Date of source: Saturday, November 4, 2006
Anwar al-Dishnāwī interviews Muhammad al-Drīnī, the Secretary General of the Supreme
Council for Defending Prophet’s Descendents and Shī‘ah Affairs.
Date of source: Monday, October 2, 2006
Nabīl Zakī analyses human rights
violations committed by Egyptian police.
Date of source: Sunday, June 29, 1997
The repair of a church toilet at the Monastery of the Syrian prompted a mob to destroy the entire building
while the monk overseeing the work was at the police station. Watani complains that the official
press,
al-Ahram and al-Akhbar, present the event as if it was a minor incident, and that...
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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.