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Date of source: Monday, March 13, 2006
Coptic intellectuals are divided over the step taken by Coptic activists in the West to discuss the Coptic file before the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. Some believe that such step is the only possible action in order to attract the government’s attention to the problems of Copts,...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Coptic human rights lawyer Najīb Jibrā’īl claims that the Egyptian regime is responsible for the internationalization of Copts’ issues.
Date of source: Monday, December 1, 2003
The author complains that during the month of Ramadan a couple of issues were met with complete silence from Egyptian media. Some of these issues that he comments on in his article are: the decision of the American Congress to allocate $2 million cut from American aid to Egypt to the Ibn Khaldoun...
Date of source: Friday, October 10, 2003
Some human rights organizations and activists in Egyptian society put more pressure on the government to nullify the state of emergency, to make legal and procedural changes, and to enhance democracy. The head of Ibn Khaldoun Centre for Promotional Studies Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim called for...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 23, 2003
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights condemned Egyptian prison authorities for violating the rights of fundamentalist prisoners to have contact with the outside world.
Date of source: Monday, June 30, 2003
Bishop Wissa spoke about al-Kosheh in Montreal, Canada, where he claimed that Copts had died for their faith while no such claims were made by eye-witnesses or in reports of the prosecution. This is inciting language. The Bishop also claimed to have the right to be politically active and took the...
Date of source: Saturday, June 21, 2003
The Shura Council has agreed upon establishing a national council for human rights. The author interviewed many human rights activists to give their comments on the advantages and disadvantages of establishing such a council.
Date of source: Thursday, June 5, 2003
The rumors of US interference in Assiut probably started with an article titled "The American embassy occupies Assiut," Sout Al-Umma, April 28, 2003 [AWR week 17, art. 3]. The Sout al-Umma article is extremely negative and one wonders if not at least part of it is the consequence of rivalry between...
Date of source: Saturday, January 11, 2003 to Friday, January 17, 2003
Thieves, corrupt and unemployed people who look for an easy life in the luxurious European countries ask for political asylum with the claim that they are persecuted in Egypt. The reasons for their alleged persecution are homosexuality, female circumcision and changing religion.
Date of source: Monday, June 20, 2005
Several Israeli and Palestinian figures appeared during a recent seminar at theGW Marriott Hotel on the Cairo-Suez desert highway on peace in the Middle East region. The seminar was organized by the UN Information Center. The Israelis and Palestinians pretended they were defending the Palestinians...
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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.