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Date of source: Monday, June 5, 2006
A recent Administrative
Judicial Court ruling allowing Egyptian Bahā’īs to have their religion recognized on official
documents and the issue of Bahā’ī marriage have been a subject of heated debate in the
Egyptian press.
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Ministry of Interior has refused to allow 150 Christian converts to Islam, who later returned to Christianity, to change the religious data on their identity cards back to Christianity. Kamal Zākhir Mousa argues that an extremist wing of the political elite is trying to link citizenship to...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The article is on the arrest of 22 terrorists and the killing of seven during clashes between policemen and members of a group, al-Tawhīd wa al- Jihād, suspected of masterminding the Dahab and al-Joura bombings that claimed the lives of a few tourists and many Egyptians in Sinai.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The muftī of the republic, Dr.
‘Alī Jum‘a, has
given the Egyptian ministry of interior the green light to kill
terror suspects, describing them as “scum,” in a
language that is unbecoming to a religious scholar,
Ibtisām Tha‘lab writes.
Date of source: Monday, May 22, 2006
Nearly 480 people, including 314 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood have been arrested on charges of organizing unauthorized demonstrations in support of the judges, who blew the whistle on election fraud.
Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2006 to Friday, May 26, 2006
The article deals with Bahā’ism in Egypt and the attempts by the followers of this faith to obtain official recognition, particularly in light of a recent court ruling holding that the Ministry of Interior ministry should grant them identity cards in which their religion is registered.
Date of source:
Extremists attack a priest in Wasīf farm and destroy some of possessions belonging to Copts,
raising
tensions between Muslims and Christians.
Date of source: Saturday, May 13, 2006 to Friday, May 19, 2006
The article is part 9 of a series of articles presenting the memoir of Talāl al
-
Ansārī, an Islamist, who writes about the time he spent in prison.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The article deals with the killing of a terrorist who masterminded the Dahab chain of bombings that claimed the lives of scores of Egyptians and foreigners and wounded others and the arrest of his aide.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006
The author criticizes the tug-of-war between the
Muslim Brotherhood deputies and those of
the NDP inside parliament over trivial issues. Instead, he argues that
they should unify their ranks as
Egyptians in the face of terrorism, which is gnawing at the country’s
significant source of income...
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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.