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Saad Eddin
Ibrahim’s lawyer presented a demand to release Saad Eddin for
health reasons. Lawyers and intellectuals are also
considering making a request to President Mubarak to
stay the execution of the prison sentence. Officials
demonstrated a positive sign to easing the crisis when
they...
Date of source: Sunday, September 10, 2006
Eight bishops and twenty-four
priests were arrested and imprisoned in 1981, an act which had no
precedent in Egyptian modern history.
After twenty five years Rūbīr al-Fāris interviews one of
these priests, Athanasius Butrus,
pastor of the Church of Mār Girgis in Manshiyt al- Sadr, to talk...
Date of source: Sunday, September 3, 2006
An examination of the crisis 25 years ago between President Sadat and the Coptic Orthodox Church, during which Pope Shenouda was confined in Anba Bishoi Monastery in the Western Desert, and banned from acting as patriarch of the Coptic Church. Many other bishops and priests were also detained, and...
Date of source: Monday, June 12, 2006
Dr. ‘Abd al-
‘Azīm Ramadān traces the history of clashes between Islamic groups and the Egyptian
government.
Date of source: Thursday, April 20, 2006
A 22-member group, called al-Tā’ifa al-Mansoura
[The victorious denomination]
has been arrested by the Egyptian police for planning terrorist attacks against
tourist sites, gas
pipelines, and a number of top Muslim and Christian clergy.
Date of source: Sunday, June 22, 2003
An Egyptian Christian called Hani Samir Tawfiq is accused of being a member of the Qa´ida network. His mother said that he tried to convert to Islam but men of religion convinced him not to convert. He later joined one of the cells of the Islamic groups and they helped him to travel to Saudi...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Eighteen suspects of Egypt’s Jund Allāh [God’s soldiers] have ended their hunger strike after some of their demands were met, according to well-placed informed fundamentalist sources.
Date of source: Saturday, September 25, 2004
Muslim fundamentalists in London expressed their concern over the deteriorating heath of Sultan Barakat Semada a [Muslim] fundamentalist detained at the Egyptian Torah prison.
Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2005
Nabīl Na‘īm’s statement concerning dethroning ‘Abboud al-Zumur, leader of the Jihād Organization in Tura prison, from his position is raising many questions about the organization and its relations with the government.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 26, 2004
During a televised interviews aired by Al-Jazeera satellite channel, Abdel-Khaleq, the former member of the formation committee and the guidance office of the Brotherhood discussed the stand of Al-Hudaiby toward “Ma’alem Fel-Tareeq” [Milestones], written by Sayyed Qutb and also Al-Hudaiby’s stand...
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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.