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Date of source: Saturday, May 17, 2014
The Council of Sufi orders has stated in a statement that the elections of the council will be held the coming Thursday in the premises of the Cairo Governorate based on the agreement of the shaykhs of sufī tarīqas.
Date of source: Monday, September 21, 2015
The Chinese community in Cairo has been continuously growing over the past years, as Chinese and the Egyptian political and economic relations are becoming steadily more intertwined. Last Friday, September 18, the Egyptian-Chinese Friendship Association and the Egyptian Friendship Organisation...
Date of source: Sunday, November 8, 2009
Robeir al-Faris provides a round up of the Cairo press this month. He covers the case of the murder trial of Marwa al-Shirbīni which is taking place in Germany, looking in particular at an article written by Ibrāhīm Isá in al-Dustūr that reflects on the Egyptian reaction to the case. Al-Faris also...
Date of source: Sunday, June 1, 2008
The article discusses a recent crime in Cairo where a Coptic jewellery shop owner and three employees were shot dead outside the shop. As of yet, police remain unsure of the suspects involved in the crime.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 5, 1997
Subtitle:Orascom did not obtain a tender of 7.5 million pounds. After the re-bidding, it obtained it for 23 million.El-Shaab suspects corruption in the way Orascom, owned by the super rich Christian Saweres and Arab Contractors, obtained the tender to repair the Hanging Church. Orascom’s bid of 7...
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 2004
A number of extremist groups and organizations seek to establish NGOs after responsible authorities dismissed their application for founding political parties.
Date of source: Friday, July 2, 2004
The Cairo Social Affairs Department admitted that there is nothing called “The Church of Virgin Mary and Habeel the Pious” in Misr Al-Qadima [old Cairo] district and that it is an imaginary church without a specific location.
A founder of the NGO called Habeel Tawfiq Saeed attempted to change the...
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 1999 to Friday, May 21, 1999
Dr. Abd Al-Rahim Shehata, Governor of Cairo, and his deputy explain why he dissolved the Society of Al-Azhar Scholars’ Front. Meanwhile Dr. Yehia Isma’il, President of the Society of Al-Azhar Scholars’ Front insists that they are the first to defend the Al-Azhar, and that there are no differences...
22. Will the Ministry of Tourism visit it?: A church built by Egyptian hands at Al-Muqattam Mountain
Date of source: Thursday, April 15, 1999
Embraced by Al-Muqattam Mountain and in the middle of ’Ezbet Al-Zabaleen, or the Garbage Collectors settlement and in spite of poverty and lack of services, they (Egyptians) have cut into the stone of the mountain and created with their hands a human-made miracle at the Monastery of Sam’aan Al-...
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.