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Date of source: Friday, April 1, 2005
Some 240 homes in Egypt meet
their waterloo on a daily basis as women get their divorce rulings in courts every six minutes while five million women are
not aware they are divorced, according to the figures of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
(CAPMAS).
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2005
Last week’s editorial referred to President Mubarak’s words that “ As Egyptian Muslims and Copts, we should allow nothing to come between us”. The words, intended to condemn discrimination between Muslims and Copts, actually served as a strong reminder of it. This discrimination is especially...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2005
A top official from the Religious Freedoms Committee of the U.S. Congress visited the Upper Egyptian governorate of Asyout last Thursday and met with a number of priests including Father Makarius at Abu Qurqās and bishop Paphnotius of Samāllout.
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2005
Muntasir al-Zayyāt, lawyer of al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya said in an interview with Sawt al-Umma that he might be put in jail soon by the security apparatuses or killed by al-Jamāca which has accused him of working for the security authorities.
Date of source: Sunday, January 2, 2005
Prominent Egyptian intellectual and scientist Dr. Rushdy Said noted that two contradicting traditions govern the relationship between Muslims and Copts in Egypt: the first fosters brotherhood and understanding while the second encourages suspicion and hatred. I remembered this as I read the book Al...
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2005
On December 10, 2004, a Cherokee car driving at 160 km/hour killed Sanā’ Muscad and her daughter Mirnā Tharwat Mīlād. Sanā’ and her four daughters had recently converted to Islam. There is some speculation whether there is a connection between the recent conversion and the hit and run. The accident...
Date of source: Sunday, November 25, 2001
Muslims and Christian mulids are celebrated in a similar way and are an expression of their happiness. Muslims are affected by the Christian celebrations and the celebrations of both of them carry Pharaonic features. All Egyptians celebrate the mulids of Sayeda Zeinab [Muslim], Al-Hussein [Muslim...
Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2001
The Cassation Court accepted the appeals presented by the Prosecutor General and the families of the victims of Al-Kosheh riots against the rulings handed down in the case. The court decided to retry all 92 defendants of the case under a different Assiut court.
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2001
One of the members of the military wing of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya surrendered himself to the police after hiding for seven years. He confessed that he knew nothing about religious matters, yet he was chosen for the military wing because he was well built.
Date of source: Saturday, July 21, 2001
The Egyptian Court of Cassation is expected to agree on the appeal filed by the State Security Prosecution against the light sentences handed down in the case of Al-Kosheh riots.
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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.