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Date of source: Wednesday, January 11, 2006
A digest of articles covering Coptic-Muslim Brotherhood relations, focusing on American Coptic leader Michael Munīr’s recent visit to Egypt, halting attempts to establish dialogue between the two groups and the impact of the Brotherhood’s success in the last parliamentary elections on Muslim-Coptic...
Date of source: Friday, December 16, 2005
On a visit to Cairo, Michael Munīr, head of the US Copts Association, spent a week meeting politicians, party leaders and high-ranking officials. The visit coincided with President Husnī Mubārak’s recent decree to delegate authority of building and restoring churches to governors, which Munīr...
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The Washington conference of Coptic activists called for a power-sharing deal, between Muslims and Christians, along the model of Sudan. They have also demanded that Egypt become a secular state.
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2004
In the framework of the American presidential race, the [US] Democratic Party made a big surprise by announcing that the Bush Administration hosted a delegation from the Muslim Brotherhood during the Republican Party's latest conference. An American report released recently noted the American...
Date of source: Monday, September 6, 2004
The annual conference for Muslims in America held in Rosemont, Illinois, was attended by a pro-Bush group, which raised the anger of the conference participants. Participants believed that President Bush’s policies since September 11 has harmed innocent Muslims, more so than the number of...
Date of source: Saturday, January 31, 2004
The article discusses the influence of religion on the character of George W. Bush. The author
explains that the ideal of Bush Jr. is former U.S. president Ronald Reagan, for he was involved
in religion, and he applied Christian norms to U.S. foreign policy. Since September 11, Bush has
believed...
Date of source: Friday, May 25, 2001
The head of the National Arab Americans Association said that when his association met the US Commission for International Religious Freedom, on its visit to Israel, they criticized the way the committee was formed and the way it works. He criticized the fact that Israel was not mentioned in the...
Date of source: Sunday, April 1, 2001
Dr. Rafiq Habib is a Coptic intellectual who refused to meet with the American delegation for International Religious Freedom. He believes that the delegation tries to force what they call religious freedom, allowing American missionaries to work in Egypt to convert Muslims and Orthodox Copts to...
Date of source: Friday, February 9, 2001
The American Congress started its session with Islamic invocations as an appreciation for Islam, as one of the main religions in the United States and for the increased role of Muslims there. The invocation was read by the head of the mosque of Dar Al-Higra [litt: House of Emigration] in the state...
Date of source: Thursday, August 17, 2000
Seven years ago, when George Bush, the son, was elected as the governor of Texas, the press wrote that he said "those who do not believe in Jesus Christ will not enter heaven". When the anger of the Jews was aroused because of his words, he sent a correction to the Jewish association Bne Brith, in...
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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.