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Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2005
Jamāl Ascad is a writer, an activist, and a former member of the People’s assembly. Ascad was expelled from al-Muhrraq Monastery and was socially excluded when he dared discuss the political role of the Pope.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Dr. Ihāb ‘Abd al-Ahad Jamāl al-Dīn, Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated before the Foreign Relations Committee of the People’s Assembly yesterday that Egypt officially has recorded its objection to the U.S. anti-Semitism law.
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2005
Last week’s editorial referred to President Mubarak’s words that “ As Egyptian Muslims and Copts, we should allow nothing to come between us”. The words, intended to condemn discrimination between Muslims and Copts, actually served as a strong reminder of it. This discrimination is especially...
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2005
Sectarian strife would not exist if there were civil laws protecting religious liberties, if the government and government officials were trained to deal with such occurrences effectively and openly, and if the media played its role.
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2005
In 1973, the People’s Assembly held an urgent session to discuss al-Khānkah [a small town near Cairo] sectarian incident. A fact-finding committee was formed to recommend policies that would prevent such incidents in the future. The committee presented a 10-recommendation report that generally aims...
Date of source: Sunday, January 9, 2005
The Christians and Muslims of the village of Damshāw Hāshim recently witnessed sectarian violence between a majority of Muslims and a minority of Christians, united by poverty. Alienated by unemployment, idleness and penury, the young are full of a hatred that does not distinguish between religions...
Date of source: Saturday, October 9, 2004
The Grand Imam of the Azhar, Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, has once submitted a draft law to the People’s Assembly on the development of the Azhar but the top Muslim Imam was not aware then that he was treading on a landmine. A fierce campaign of opponents have accused him that he wants to...
Date of source: Sunday, December 30, 2001
The American embassy in one of the Arab countries sent the officials in that Arab country a strange note. The note included many demands concerning the necessity of reconsidering the religious and historical curriculums taught in schools and universities. The article exposes the opinions of some...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 25, 2001
The increase in the number of the Coptic wives filing lawsuits before the court to get permission to remarry has led to annulling the ecclesiastical regulation that states that the wife whose husband is missing has to wait for 30 years for her husband before she is able to remarry. The article...
Date of source: Saturday, December 29, 2001 to Tuesday, January 1, 2002
The article gives the opinion of Nabil Luka Bebawy concerning the problems facing Copts in Egypt and how to solve them. Bebawy believes that among the problems facing Copts in Egypt are the Hamayouni Law for building churches, the appointment of Copts in senior positions, the fact that the Egyptian...
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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.