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Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2006
The press review
deals
with the incidents of Alexandria, from an analytical point of view, in an attempt to probe the reasons for
the assault on three churches by an allegedly schizophrenic young man called Mahmoud Salāh, who killed
one
person and injured scores others while shouting Fidāk Yā...
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
A reported assault on the imām of the Umm al-Qura Mosque in al-‘Arīsh, Shaykh Muhammad ‘Abd al- Hamīd, by Major Muhammad Ridā of the State Security Intelligence (SSI), has provoked outrage among Sinai mosque imāms.
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
Forty-one -year-old Umm Usāma recounts how state security forced raided her house on
April 12, and arrested her husband, Salāh ‘Abd al-Qawī, and her three sons, Usāma,
Ahmad and ‘Abd al-Rahmān, forcing them to “confess to crimes that they did not commit.”
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
Fourteen-year-old ‘Abd al-
Rahmān Salāh ‘Abd al-
Qawī recounts how he was allegedly tortured by state security
officers to falsely confess to involvement
in the Azhar terrorist attacks.
Date of source: Monday, April 10, 2006
Nearly 800 young Muslim preachers have been removed after passing
the Ministry of Awqāf’s [endowments] test for imāms and preachers in 2005.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 2, 2001
The National Security Prosecution arrested an employee who formed a group believing in ideas against Islam and spreading them in his workplace and the area where he lives. The ideas have to do with denying the holy hadiths and claiming that some of the obligations mentioned in the Sunna are not...
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2006
The author analyses the case of Heidi Hakīm Manqarius Salīb, a Christian girl who converted to Islam. This case was reported in Al-Katība al-Tībīya (The Theban Legion) and on the websites of several Christian organizations as a kidnapping, but in fact there is no proof of any physical force or...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 1, 2006
The Coptic researcher Majdī Khalīl has published a detailed paper in both Arabic and English on the dialogue between the government and the Copts. The paper deals with the government’s attempts to use some Copts against the interests of the ‘Coptic people.’ He claims that he has proven that the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 1, 2006
The authors write about the recent violence related to the inability of many Christians to build churches in Egypt. They purport that these incidents could lead to more incidents if circumstances do not change in Copts’ favor soon.
Date of source: Monday, December 1, 2003
The author complains that during the month of Ramadan a couple of issues were met with complete silence from Egyptian media. Some of these issues that he comments on in his article are: the decision of the American Congress to allocate $2 million cut from American aid to Egypt to the Ibn Khaldoun...
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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.