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Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 2004
The Court of Appeals reached its decision in the case of Al-Kosheh after examining the appeals made by the accused for the second time.
The Court decided to uphold the verdict issued by the Sohag Criminal Court which sentenced the top suspect Fayiz Muhammad Abdel Reheem to thirteen years in prison...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 2004
Hani Labib, a Coptic intellectual, wrote a book called “Citizenship and Globalization,” in which he asks the question of whether the nation would still remain a “nation” in the midst of globalization. In his book, he asks whether Copts accept Arabism, and he believes that their rejection of Arabism...
Date of source: Sunday, June 20, 2004
Expatriate Copts usually fell among one of two groups: a majority who left Egypt in quest of a better life abroad, and a minority who left to escape bitter instances—usually with the authorities—at home. A ‘silent majority’ and a ‘loud-voiced minority’ then emerged and came to characterize the...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
A report released on the health condition of President Mubarak by Hani Al-Seba’i, the head of Al-Maqrizi Center for Historical Studies, also revealed the names of the organizations that are against the regime. These organizations disseminate their ideas from abroad freely. Those organizations are...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 29, 2004
A large number of young translators presented translations of literary works from various languages into Arabic that attracted the attention of readers and specialists. These translations are not limited to the widely known languages like English and French, but they also include some translations...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 2004
When I. visited the monastery of the Holy Virgin on the Western Mountain of Dronka in Assiut, I saw at the foot of the mountain a vast area covered with gloomy brushwood. The monastery tried hard to clean up the area and cultivate it with timber-producing woods—watered by the drained water—but the...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 2004
Watani International met with the Grand Mufti of the Republic, Dr. Ali Goma’a, during his visit to London in which he headed a delegation comprising Dr. Muhammad Abu Lila, Dr. Gaffar Abdel Salam and Dr. Zaghloul Al-Naggar. The objective of the visit, as the Grand Mufti stated during a seminar held...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
There are dozens of Internet sites that propagate rumors made up by enemies of the nation, starting with Al-Qa’ida members and ending with the Coptic émigrés. Al-Maqrizi Center’s web site has recently spread a rumor about the President Mubarak’s health. That rumor was easily contained, but many...
Date of source: Friday, July 2, 2004
Dr. No’man Goma’a, head of the Wafd Party hosted the delegation of the banned Brotherhood at the party’s headquarter for 140 minutes. Information leaked about the meeting varied between: implying the possibility of a new alliance between the Wafd and the Brotherhood, similar to the alliance they...
Date of source: Sunday, July 4, 2004
Last week, Watani International printed an interview with Dr. Aly Gomaa, Egypt’s mufti. Some of the questions directed to the Mufti concerned the comparison between the absolute freedom with which Muslims in Egypt build mosques, and the parallel restrictions imposed by law on the building of...
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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.