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Date of source: Sunday, May 13, 2012
Combined army and police force raided several houses in B’ir al-‘Abd and Jilbānah villages in central Sinai on Sunday (May 13) and arrested four suspected of involvement in the largest deal to smuggle weapons from Libyan territories.
Forty surface-to-surface missiles, 11,000 bullets and...
Date of source: Sunday, May 13, 2012
Coptic Catholic Patriarch Bishop Antonius Najīb arrives back in Egypt on Thursday (May 17) after a month-long therapeutic trip in the United States. [Michael Viktor, Watanī, May 13, p. 1] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, May 13, 2012
Informed sources at the papal seat of the Coptic Orthodox Church revealed that the period to register voters in the election of a new patriarch will be extended until the end of June while nominations will continue to be received until the end of this month. [Ahmad al-Sa’dāwī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd,...
Date of source: Sunday, May 13, 2012
Meanwhile, the People’s Assembly Culture, Information and Tourism Committee is debating a 44-article bill on the audio-visual mass media to regulate their work after recent violations were spotted. [Muhammad Fathī, al-Ahrām, May 13, p. 7] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, May 13, 2012
Combined army and police force raided several houses in B’ir al-‘Abd and Jilbānah villages in central Sinai on Sunday (May 13) and arrested four suspected of involvement in the largest deal to smuggle weapons from Libyan territories.
Forty surface-to-surface missiles, 11,000 bullets and...
Date of source: Sunday, May 13, 2012
A wrangling erupted on Saturday (May 12) between veteran journalist Farīdah al-Shūbāshī and ‘Abd al-Zāhir Mufīd, the secretary of political education at the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), during a seminar hosted by the ministry of social affairs on drama handling of issues of...
Date of source: Sunday, May 13, 2012
Most of the Islamists divided into groups and organizations announced they would back either leading Muslim Brotherhood member Muhammad Mursī or former Brotherhood member ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh.
Copts, on the other hand, insist that they are not one voting bloc and that they are, like any...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Brotherhood Murshid (Guide) Muhammad Badī', by unbinding Dr. Muhammad Mursī, the presidential candidate from the group's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), from his pledge, opened a wide spectrum for contemplation about the nature of the pledge Mursī has committed himself to.
Kārim Radwān, a member...
Date of source: Monday, January 7, 2013
Under the title “The Coptic Evangelical and Orthodox Churches celebrate Christmas without the Muslim Brotherhood”, al-Wafd reports that both Egyptian Churches had received congratulatory phone call from President Mursī, while a number of public figures came personally to attend the Christmas masses...
Date of source: Saturday, January 5, 2013
After performing yesterday’s (Jan. 4) Friday prayers, youth members of various political forces and parties marched from ‘Umar Makram Mosque to the Coptic Evangelical Church of Qasr al-Dubārah to extend their Christmas greetings to Copts. Led by the imām of said Mosque, Shaykh Mazhar Shahīn, also...
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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.