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Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2004
Dr. William Wissa is an Egyptian media-man and journalist living in Paris. He heard about the first and second incidents in Al-Kosheh. He felt bewildered due to the contradictions between the international and the local Egyptian media coverage of the Al-Kosheh incidents. He traveled to Al-Kosheh...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 2004
No one can deny that national unity and religious brotherhood have been and will remain part and parcel of Egypt’s national textile, a fact that is established and acknowledged inside and outside Egypt. Religious groups that penetrated the Egyptian society and spread their ideologies threaten Egypt...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 2004
I gladly received an invitation for a very special seminar, where I was informed of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services’ (CEOSS) activities in promoting the concept of accepting the other and coexisting with all citizens. The ‘others are people who are different in religion, in...
Date of source: Saturday, July 17, 2004
Yesterday, the Grand Imam of the Azhar Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi and Pope Shenouda III witnessed the signing of the Islamic-Christian dialogue agreement. Sheikh Hamed Al-Rafa’i, chairman of the Global Islamic Forum for Dialogue, and Girgis Saleh, secretary general of the Middle East Council of...
Date of source: Sunday, July 18, 2004
In the interview with the Grand Mufti of the Republic, Sheikh Ali Goma’a, published in Watani on June 6, 2004, His Eminence mocked some questions about citizenship, describing them as funny. We would like to ask his Eminence about the meaning of citizenship. Does citizenship mean drinking the same...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Among the many examples of social hypocrisy and trade manipulating religion, a striking new phenomenon can now be added. Newspapers have become abundant with strange advertisements for maids. The companies that advertise available maids are described as “Islamic”. They make ‘pious’ Muslim maids...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Father Basilius al-Maqārī exaggerated in AWR, 2005, week 16, art. 46, in my opinion, the parallel between Church clericalism and Islamism. Coptic clergy have been politically active but they do not seek power as Islamists do.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 14, 2005
The exaggeration about the comparison between the role of traditional Islam and the Coptic Orthodox Church is simple. It is not the difference in attitude but in numbers/statistics. Copts simply do not have the numbers to seek power as Islamists do.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 7, 2005
An extended summary of seven articles in a Dutch daily newspaper describing an average Christian family in a Muslim society. Two family members and the editor of AWR responded to the text. The article gives a good description of what it is to be an average Christian in Egyptian society.
Date of source: Monday, June 13, 2005
The pillar on which a society stands is the principle of citizenship, which means that duties and rights should emanate exclusively from affiliation to the nation, and the society, likewise, can never be civilian without the state itself being civilian, body and soul.
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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.