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Date of source: Wednesday, October 17, 2018
The village of Dimshāw has become the scene of tensions between Muslims and Christians because Christians wanted to change a prayer house into a church building. It happens a lot that Christians in villages with no or insufficient church buildings meet for prayer in a house. Generally Muslims in...
Date of source: Thursday, October 4, 2018
Editor AWR: The Center for Arab-West Understanding had invited Prof. Dr. Ḥassan M. Wajīh Ḥassan to provide a response to a lecture of H.E. Lord George Carey on July 13, 2018. Dr. Wajīh suffered of pain in his spine and was unable to come and for that reason wrote a “response” to a lecture that he...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Shākir Arbān, legal representative for Washington Copts organization, sent a memo to the Egyptian presidency asking the President to remove Maurice Sādiq and other expatriate Coptic leaders from the list of people declared persona non grata.This came after rumors of releasing Wajdī Ghunaym as one...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Mursī welcomed Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā within consultations between the President and political powers. There were speculations that the meeting dealt with a proposal to include ‘Awā in the presidential team. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, August 2, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
The salafī al-Nūr Party refused the environmental affairs portfolio.Prime Minister Dr. Hishām Qandīl had phoned Khālid ‘Alam al-Dīn, a member of al-Nūr (Light) Party, to offer him the position of Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, but the Party refused and considered the offer as an...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
In another development, Nādir al-Sirafī, a spokesperson of the 1938 Copts Movement, said he sent a letter to Field Marshal Husayn Tantāwī, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) that included complaints about the state’s slackness to solve the crisis between the movement and the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization Counselor Najīb Jabrā’īl, for his part, called heads of churches to withdraw from the Family House initiative in protest against the persecution of and attacks against Copts.Jabrā’īl warned that Copts could leave the country and said that the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
General Bishop Theodosius of Giza called the Egyptian authorities to enforce the law on everyone and to stop thuggery and pillaging of citizens’ private property. He made the remarks in a statement on the incidents of Dahshūr. He also called for the return of Copts to their houses in the village...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Major General Ahmad Sālim al-Nāghī, Director of Giza Security Department, sent 12 formations of the anti-riot police in an attempt to contain the explosive situation and end clashes between Muslims and Christians. Both sides began hurling stones and shooting indiscriminately, injuring the senior...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the Egyptian Constitution reads, “Islam is the official religion of the state, Arabic its official language and the principles of Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation”. Salafists seek removing the word ‘principles’ or replacing it with the word ‘...
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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.