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Date of source: Thursday, January 3, 2013
The Shūrá Council’s financial and economic affairs committee has endorsed the Islamic Research Academy’s rejection of the Finance Ministry's proposal for Islamic bonds.
“We reject the bonds in terms of economy and in terms of Sharī’ah,” committee chairman Muhammad al-Fiqī said.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Coptic Orthodox Bishop Mūsá of Youth, for his part, said that Copts have been migrating for a long time because of financial issues. but now it is out of religious fear. He added that the Church tells them that leaving out of fear is wrong because Copts should exist in the country and should not...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 1, 2013
In an interview with al-Misrī al-Yawm, Georgette Qillīnī, a Coptic lawyer, said that she refused her appointment in the Shūrá Council because it is against the Constitution. She added that any legislation that will be issued by the Council will be illegitimate: “Mursī appointed 90 members of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 to Sunday, March 4, 2018
The cabinet is considering drafts to grant an exceptional pension of LE1725 for each of the families of martyrs in the incidents of Maspero, Muhammad Mahmūd street and outside the cabinet office.
The cabinet is also discussing a draft decree by the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Members at the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy has rejected a Finance-Ministry-proposed bill sectioning the introduction of Islamic financial bonds.
Date of source: Monday, October 2, 2017
In response to what has been recently circulated that an Egyptian court prevented a Christian citizen from giving testimony, SaʿīdʿAbd al-Masīḥ ʿAbd Allāh, a lawyer, said that in 2016, he was able to testify before the Family Court and the judge accepted his testimony.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 3, 2017
During the opening of the annual forum of NGOs organized by the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) on Tuesday, the NCHR’s President Muḥammad Fāʾiq said that there can be no democracy without an active civil society to put the constitution into effect, adding that the NCHR is focusing...
Date of source: Thursday, August 31, 2017
The Tunisian president's call for the [permissibility] of marriages between a Muslim woman to a non-Muslim man and equality in inheritance between men and women sparked a widespread heated controversy in Egypt more than any other Arab and Islamic country.
Date of source: Thursday, December 7, 2017
7 December 2017, by Jasper A. Kiepe and Salma Khamis
This article is the second installment in a three-part series: In the first article, we gave an overview on the situation in Egypt with respect to sexual harassment, and violence against women more generally. In this piece, we examine the...
Date of source: Thursday, October 26, 2017
About the Authors:
Mette Toft Nielsen completed her M.A. degree in Culture, Communication and Globalization in Aalborg University, Denmark in 2013. Nielsen began her career at the Center for Arab-West Understanding, researching the reasons why people choose to emigrate for her M.A. thesis....
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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.