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Date of source: Monday, April 25, 2005
Do our tourism officials know that the remains of Prophet John the Baptist are inside the Anbā Maqqār monastery in the wilderness of Shihīt? If they know about it and do not use this attraction of vital importance to Christians and Muslims alike, then this is a disaster, and if they do not know,...
Date of source: Monday, April 18, 2005
Shawqī Murqus, went to the civil status department to ask for a national identity card but the department refused to issue it for him under the pretext that he had converted to Islam in 1972. He provided evidence that he had reconverted to Christianity with a ruling of the Clerical Council of the...
Date of source: Thursday, April 7, 2005
The U.S. ambassador granted 1 million dollars to seven Egyptian Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) active in democratization. These donations are not deducted from the Egyptian allocations by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Date of source: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Non-stop explanation of the facts of Islam and its tolerant teachings has to be extended to other nations through a line dissociating the faith from the misconducts of some Muslims, said Muhammad ‘Abd al-Fadīl al- Qousī, the deputy president of the Azhar University, in an interview.
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
The constitution, which provides that there is no discrimination among citizens on basis of religion, sex or color, holds that Islamic sharī‘a is the only source of legislation; while the fiqh [Muslim jurisprudence] rule goes that no non-Muslim would be allowed to rule Muslims.
Date of source: Thursday, June 23, 2005
Rose al-Yousuf writes that Egyptian grassroots are not interested in demonstrations of the Kifāya movement.
Critique on an article about a Christian family alleging that the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar was involved in luring their daughter to Islam.
Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2005
Today Turkey is attempting to join the European Union and become the link between the Christian West and the Muslim East, but without wars or armies this time. Will the Europeans give a chance for the two cultures to be joined?
Date of source: Thursday, March 24, 2005
The relation between the late president Jamāl ‘Abd al-Nāsir and the Muslim Brotherhood is debatable. Councilor al-Dimirdāsh al-‘Uqaylī, former member of the secret formation of the Muslim Brotherhood, confessed that Abd al-Nāssir’s contributions to the Brotherhood were more than mere revolutionary...
Date of source: Thursday, March 3, 2005
I am not at ease about the “stalwart support” of the People’s Assembly and Shura Council for the historical decision of President Husnī Mubārak to have direct presidential elections instead of those referendums that made Egypt a paradigm of the 99,999% syndrome during Nasser’s time!
Date of source: Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Following the recent events, many people called for the cancellation of the religion item from identity cards, on the grounds that affiliation to the homeland is essentially based on citizenship, not religion. They added that the statement of every citizen’s religion in identity cards is a kind of...
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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.