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Date of source: Wednesday, January 2, 2013
The current Shūrá Council was elected in February 2012 with a turnout that was lower than 15 per cent and yielded an Islamist majority of 84 per cent of elected seats. The list of the newly appointed members includes a diverse number of Christians, some have been listed under ‘The Christian...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 20, 2017
“We kept quiet, so he barged in with his donkey” is a popular idiom that exemplifies the state of religious parties, which started appearing directly after the 25th of January Revolution.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, said there should be no concerns over the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafīs in power, adding the Egyptian people from now on would be watching everyone in public office and all political parties in all their different orientations.
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Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2012
Mu'taz Muhammad, a member of the People's Assembly and leader of the Freedom Party, proposed a fact-finding commission to investigate the incidents of the Two Saints Church in Alexandria in an attempt to detect the perpetrators of the January 1, 2011 deadly blasts that left dozens of Copts killed...
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb congratulated members of the Azhar's Islamic Research Academy on the enactment of the new law regulating the top Sunni Muslim establishment's affairs, known in the media as the Azhar independence law, issued hours before the People's Assembly session...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Meanwhile, Mahmūd al-Saqqā, who chaired the People's Assembly procedural session on Monday (January 23), announced that Sa'd al-Katātnī, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood group's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), was elected speaker of the parliament.
Katātnī garnered 399 out of a total...
Date of source: Sunday, January 22, 2012
Leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party held a meeting with a delegation of church clergymen upon an invitation by the FJP to study problems and work on reaching solutions to them.
The Coptic delegation comprised Bishop Estephanus of the Virgin Mary Church, Dr. Kamāl...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah's Building and Development Party, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party (ESDP), al-Karāmah (Dignity) Party and the Reform and Development Party (RDP) agreed that the party with the majority of seats would name a...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The FJP has come out of the womb of the Muslim Brotherhood group and emerged in the limelight after the glorious January 25 Revolution in a democratic attire, something that is confirmed by the statements of the party leader and senior members, writes William Sam'ān in an opinion article in al-...
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2012
Is the church trying to impose its influence on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and play a role that is against the steps on the road to democracy in Egypt and the formation of the first parliament after the revolution? wonders Mulhim al-'Isawī in an opinion article in al-Rahmāh...
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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.