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Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2012
While the Muslim Brotherhood welcomed the decision and described it as a “victory for the values of the constitution and law,” civil political powers and parties categorically rejected it as an “unprecedented violation of the nation’s top court – the Supreme Constitutional Court”.
Rif’at al-Sa’īd,...
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2012
According to presidential decree no. 11 of 2012, decree no. 350 of 2012 by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) dissolving the People’s Assembly, the lower house of the two-chamber Egyptian parliament, is repealed.
The decision also included a call for holding snap elections within 60...
Date of source: Sunday, March 11, 2012
"I will collect the approvals for presidential candidature to be registered at the notary during the next couple of weeks in the name of 'Abd al-Mun'im Abū al-Futūh 'Abd al-Hādī Abū Sa'd, known as 'Abd al-Mun'im Abū al-Futūh," Dūs was quoted in a message obtained by al-Wafd.
Meanwhile, the Egypt...
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2012
These names, however, did not appeal to Coptic youth coalitions who rejected nominations by any circles close to the papal seat, preferring former member of parliament ‘Imād Jād.
There was a space of agreement between the two camps, though: refusing names like former MP Jamāl As’ad or Muslim...
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2012
Meanwhile, a group advocating the freedom of policemen to grow their beards sent a message to President Mursī, reminding him of his pledges during TV interviews during his presidential campaigning that he would allow beard growing inside the police establishment.
“Mursī, by becoming president, has...
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2012
The Azhar Grand Shaykh’s office said Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb walked out of the ceremonies hosted by Cairo University on Saturday (June 30) on the occasion of president-elect Muhammad Mursī’s taking the constitutional oath of office out of his keenness on the dignity of the Azhar and its scholars....
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2012
The Cairo Criminal Court starts today (July 2) its first session in the trial of Michael ‘Ādil Najīb and Michael Mus’ad Shākir, the two defendants in the October 9 clashes outside the state radio & TV building in the area of Maspero, which left dozens of people killed or wounded.
The examining...
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2012
As’ad refused the appointment of a Copt as vice president “just because he is a Copt,” adding this “could mark the beginning of the quota system in politics, which is not good”.
He said that the appointment of a Coptic VP to express the problems facing Copts further entrenches the religious state...
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2012
These names, however, did not appeal to Coptic youth coalitions who rejected nominations by any circles close to the papal seat, preferring former member of parliament ‘Imād Jād.
There was a space of agreement between the two camps, though: refusing names like former MP Jamāl As’ad or Muslim...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The court will also consider another challenge requesting the banning of the Muslim Brotherhood group, halting all its activities and closing down all its headquarters and property for its failure to obtain a license from the ministry of social solidarity to practice its activities in violation of...
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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.