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Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
A seminar was held in the Journalists’ Syndicate refuting the claims of the Emirati Ahmad al-Jawharī, who had announced that he owns a stone sculpture with the face of the Prophet Moses.
Date of source: Saturday, September 9, 2000
Akhbar al-Youm, received an angry comment from
father Morcos Aziz regarding its article
of last week [see RNSAW week 36, art.10] in which Amal Othman
strongly criticized him. al-Arabi urged rapid intervention to
prevent the collapse of an important
monument. al-Qahira weekly published a...
Date of source: Sunday, July 27, 1997
Subtitle:Signing a
21 million pound restoration contractEgypt’s minister of culture has
signed a contract of 21 million
Egyptian pounds to restore the famous Hanging Church bringing to an end a
15-year-old dispute about the restoration
of the 5th century church. The aim is to develop...
31. Did monks build a mosque inside St. Catherine’s monastery to prevent Muslims from destroying it?
Date of source: Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Na‘oum Bik Shuqayr, who wrote about the history of Sinai in 1916, said that Fatimid Caliph al-Hākim bi Amr Allāh ordered the demolition of the monastery in 1008. The Caliph sent a company to carry out his orders but the soldiers were told by monks there that there was a mosque inside the compound....
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
The Higher Council for Culture organized its first two-day symposium titled “Coptic Monuments of Egypt,” which was attended by many professors and research specialists. Abu Al-Hamad Farghali, a professor at the Faculty of Antiquities at Cairo University, explained that a large number of Coptic...
Date of source: Sunday, November 28, 1999
Youssef Sidhom received a letter that Coptic studies are taught at the Cairo University as part of the history of the Byzantine era in the junior year for students of history. There are also subjects in Coptic language and antiquities taught in the Faculty of Antiquities and the Faculty of Arts....
Date of source: Sunday, November 21, 1999
Sidhom publishes a letter of Coptologist Dr. Gawdat Gabra who argues for the foundation of a Coptic Studies Department. He also describes the difficulties in obtaining this.
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.