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Date of source: Sunday, October 7, 2012
A prosecutor in al-Sharqia governorate ordered the four-day investigative custody of a female student of the Faculty of Arts and her boyfriend on charges of disdaining religion.
Date of source: Sunday, September 30, 2012
There is no reason for the current state of extremism that brought a camp of some who belong to the political Islam groups to start a needless fight seeking the amendment of Article II of the Egyptian Constitution of 1971 that read “the principles of Islamic sharī’ah is the main source of...
Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2012
A lawyer belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood has established a lawsuit before the National Council in which he demanded the repeal of the appointment of Tahānī al-Jibālī as Chancellor (Vice-President) of the Supreme Constitutional Court by the former President Husnī Mubārak.
Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2012
Dr. Laylá Tiklā wrote an opinion piece in al-Ahrām calling for a supreme independent judiciary institution that can balance the branches of the government and assures the proper function of each branch. She also stressed the importance of a constitution and its articles and how it regulates the...
Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2012
Regardless of the preliminary agreement among political power on the necessity of drafting a consensus Constitution for all Egyptians, there are disputes around Article II between Copts and salafists. [Ahmad Abū Hajar, al-Wafd, August 20, p. 5] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2012
Two months have passed since work first began on the Constituent Assembly and still its sub-committees did not finish drafting the final articles of the Constitution amidst an ongoing tug-of-war among its members, particularly about Article II, articles concerning the powers of the president and...
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2012
Reading through the articles of the constitution, I took a long pause at Article 40, which read, “The state shall be obliged to take all legislative and executive measures necessary to bolster the principle of equality between women and men in all political, cultural and socio-economic fields in a...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Judicial circles are discontented over attempts by the Muslim Brotherhood to sack Vice President of the Supreme Judicial Court Tahānī al-Jibālī over what they called “her animosity against the Brotherhood”.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The al-Haram Appellate Court of Misdemeanor will hand down a ruling in the September 12 session on the case in which top Egyptian actor ‘Ādil Imām is accused of disdaining religion.
The first instance court had sentenced Imām to three months in jail and payment of a bail of LE100 (roughly $17).
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
On the other hand, Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī, a founder of the Salafī Call, the parent organization of al-Nūr (Light) Party, said his movement will call on the people to reject the constitution if the constituent assembly refrained from interpreting the phrase the “principles of the sharī’ah” in Article II...
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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.