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Date of source: Sunday, July 27, 2008
Hānī Samīr wrote in al-Dustūr about the confusion of Christians over the amendment of the 1938 regulation and the unified personal status law. He describes the comments of various people involved in the situation.
Date of source: Sunday, July 27, 2008
Robeir al-Faris reviews the previous month’s newspapers in Egypt, examining the Muslim-Christian divide in Egypt. The first of two topics presented in this article is the renaming of Victoria Square to Victory of Islam Square in a religiously mixed area of Shubra, Cairo. The second issue presented...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The author discusses the ideas of Kamāl Zākhir involving the political function and candidacy of the pope, as well as the need for a pope’s deputy and his calls for Copts to stop comparing national and religious belonging.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Salah al-Dīn Hasan asks various members of the Muslim Brotherhood for their views on the degree of democracy within the group and explores the Brotherhood’s internal politics.
Date of source: Thursday, July 17, 2008
The author criticizes the Islamic Research Academy’s statement regarding the movie entitled, ’al-Sādāt’.
Date of source: Thursday, July 17, 2008
Hishām Nājī Nazīr filed a lawsuit before the Administrative Court, demanding the cancellation of his conversion to Islam. He cites as reasons the fact that no medical exam or questioning of his motives took place.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 11, 2008
The editorial highlights several interesting articles in this week’s issue, including a report about Christian missionary work and Islamic da‘wah. There is also an article in this issue about the oath that Christians say in Egyptian courts which Hulsman brings to the reader’s attention.
Date of source: Thursday, October 16, 2008
A satirical German magazine has launched a competition entitled ’Who resembles Muhammad?’ which observers have commented could create reverberations for Muslims around the world.
Date of source: Sunday, November 2, 2008
There is a common belief in the West that Christians in Muslim countries are discriminated against, or sometimes even persecuted. While discrimination does exist, the situation is usually far more complex, argues Hulsman in this editorial. He also points out that while the Egyptian legal system...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 2, 2008
The article tries to attest to the restoration of the Coptic language as a part of the national heritage of Egypt. Many views regarding the increased desire to learn the old Egyptian language are included.
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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.