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Date of source: Thursday, July 25, 2019
Dr. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Qunṣuwa, Governor of Alexandria, and the leaders of the Coptic denominations participated in the funeral of Bishop ʿĀdil Zakī, Apostolic Vicar of Alexandria for the Catholics of the Latin rite in Egypt, which took place at St. Catherine's Church in Alexandria on Wednesday evening.
Date of source: Sunday, May 20, 2012
Meanwhile, the state commissioners authority in Alexandria decided to postpone the first session of a lawsuit filed by lawyers for the Two Saints Church, Joseph Malāk and Samīr al-‘Ādlī, against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Alexandria security director, the prime minister and...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Counselor Walīd Mas’ūd, head Burj al-‘Arab Prosecution Office, has ordered that the individual suspected of having killed five people in Alexandria be remanded under custody pending investigation. The suspect claims he was taking vengeance for their mistreatment of him (Shīrīn Tāhir, al-Wafd, Feb....
Date of source: Friday, November 11, 2011
Four people were wounded in a gunfight between Muslims and Copts on November 10 over a quarrel for priority to buy kusharī (a mix of pasta, rice, lentils, chick-peas, spicy tomato sauce and fried onions) in the area of al-Dikhīlah in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.
Date of source: Monday, August 29, 2011
A number of Alexandria lawyers filed a report against Shaykh Hātim Farīd, the imām of al-Qā'id Ibrāhīm Mosque in Alexandria, for wishing death upon liberals and secularists while leading prayers on August 24, 2011.
The offended people said that the Shaykh used the mosque pulpit to present his...
Date of source: Saturday, June 11, 2011
The State Security started its investigation June 12, 2011 on the involvement of former Minister of Interior Affairs, Habīb al-'Adlī, in bombing Two Saints Church in Alexandria.
Date of source: Monday, April 11, 2011
Criminal investigations intensified to reveal the mystery behind the disappearance of a Coptic woman who had declared her conversion to Islam in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria.
She was not seen since January 2nd when her husband came home from work to find her gone. Her family denied any...
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2011
Under the headline “Pope to be Absent from Alexandria Epiphany Service for Third Succesive Year,” Al-Shurūq al-Jadīd reports that Pope Shenouda III will hold the annual service at the Monastery of Saint Bīshūy (Dayr Anbā Bīshūy) at Wādī al-Natrūn in northern Egypt.
The pope has been absent from...
Date of source: Sunday, December 19, 2010
Egypt's Minister of Legal Affairs, Dr. Mufīd Shihāb, hosted a party at the Syrian Club in Alexandria last Friday in which he denied all rumours of fitnah tā’ifīyah in Egypt.
He said that all talks of such tensions are but rumors aimed to break Egypt’s firm stability between its people of both...
Date of source: Saturday, November 13, 2010
During a seminar at the Virgin Mary and St. John Church in Alexandria, Dr. Muhammad ‘Abd al-Salām Mahjūb called Pope Shenouda III Egypt’s “security valve” and praised him for the important roles he has played in various national security threatening cases. Father Ruways Marqus denied the church's...
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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.