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Date of source: Wednesday, February 28, 2007
al-Dustūr newspaper interviews Michael Munīr, head of the US Copts Association.
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2007
The proposed constitutional amendments would benefit the Copts because it will introduce an article that stipulates citizenship as being a right of all Egyptians, regardless of their religion and color for the first time in Egyptian history.
Date of source: Thursday, December 30, 2004
It seems that the differences will increase when we discuss the issue of specifying one’s religion on ID cards, especially after the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee at the People’s Assembly, Mustafa al-Fiqī, said that both Muslims and Christians support the cell in IDs that specifies...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 22, 2004
On June 17, 1981 violence erupted between Muslims and Christians in the Cairo working class district of al-Zawīya al-Hamrā? in which at least 20 people were killed and hundreds others injured, giving reason enough for late President Anwar al-Sādāt to launch the notorious September 1981 detentions...
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The Abū al-Matāmīr tensions triggered a full-page article in Sawt al-Ummah newspaper claiming that Israel wants to declare a Coptic state in Upper Egypt or Hurghada. Other discussions followed the tensions, some of them very emotional.
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Shock shrouded political circles in Egypt after Abd al-Halim Qandil, the Executive Editor-in-Chief of al-Arabi newspaper, the mouthpiece of the opposition Nasserite Party, was kidnapped, beaten and left stark naked on the Cairo-Suez desert highway on the dawn of November 2, 2004. Hundreds of public...
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 2004
A strange, unexpected decision issued by the Council of Governors prevents building new Azharite institutes. This decision is made in at the time when people feel suspicious towards the projects of the ?Greater Middle East? and ?renewal of religious discourse.”
Dr. Abdel Mo‘ti Bayoumi, professor...
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Almost all Egypt-based newspapers give a considerable space to hail the decision of President Husni Mubarak to abolish punishment by imprisonment to journalists in so-called "publication cases.” The decision of the president was announced by the head of Journalists? Syndicate during the fourth...
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The Saudi Minister of Interior accused the Muslim Brotherhood of being behind most of the problems of the Arab and Muslim world. He announced the deportation of several Brothers for trying to destabilize the Kingdom. Such action was a surprise, especially in the light of the history of cooperation...
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Some members of the Egyptian parliament launched a campaign against ?Knight without a horse? because it distorts the Egyptian national history. Moreover, Israel asked the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights to blame Egypt for its alleged anti-Semitism reflected in airing the series
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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.