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Date of source: Friday, November 17, 2006
Transcript of a speech presented by William Dalrymple at the American University in Cairo, highlighting his experiences traveling to Christian Holy sites throughout the Middle East, as well as his personal interpretation of political Islām. He includes references to both historical and present day...
Date of source:
The British Home
Secretary declared
that the British government intends to enforce certain procedures to protect Muslims and to face
terrorism
in all its forms. He added that the government was examining draft laws stating that spreading racial
hostility is considered to be a criminal act.
Date of source:
Former British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared that
the attacks in America were not condemned strongly enough by British
Muslims. She added that the people who
attacked the two towers of the WTC were Muslims and that Muslims should
prove that this terrorism was not
Islamic. British...
Date of source:
Mamdouh Mahran, chief
editor of the weekly al-Nabaa, claimed that a former Coptic monk had
practiced prostitution inside the
church. Mahran was highly criticized in Egyptian media and was
accused of
damaging national unity. His
article provoked angry protests by Copts in Assiut and in the main...
Date of source: Monday, November 20, 2006
Sawt al-‘Ummah printed an interview with the chairman of the British Coptic Association while answering an invitation by al- Jazīrah TV channel. He explains Coptic activities abroad, and stresses the Coptic intention to establish an “International Coptic Council,” similar to that of the Jews.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 15, 2006
On Tuesday, thousands of Copts and 80 bishops converged in St. Mark’s Cathedral in al-‘Abbāsīyah to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Pope Shenouda’s consecration as the pope of Alexandria. The celebration was marked by speeches from bishops from the Coptic Orthodox Church, and...
Date of source: Sunday, November 19, 2006
British historian William Dalrymple denounces the policies of London and Washington, and
warns of the danger
of the Western discrimination against Muslims and Islām.
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2000
Salwa Refaat wrote the National Egyptian Heritage Foundation( NEHRA), the Ministries of Culture and Environment and the Antiquities Authority made great efforts to revive the sites on the Holy path. On the same page was an interview with Mr. Mounir Gabbour, Chairman of NEHRA. In: "The Holy Book"...
Date of source: Friday, November 10, 2006
On the sidelines of a conference held
by the Royal United
Services Institute, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett urged moderate British Muslims to play an
active role in combating terrorism and to act as ambassadors for Britain in countries with large Muslim
populations,
particularly...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Amjad al-Fārūqī, 39, a British Muslim policeman of
Asian origin, was recently
removed from his position in the elite Diplomatic Protection Group (D.P.G.) of
the Metropolitan Police that guards
dignitaries, on the grounds that he represents "security risks."
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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.