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Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2012
Sharīf Ramzī, the founder of the Copts without Restrictions movement, called on all citizens of Egypt to vote in the presidential elections and shoulder their share of responsibility in monitoring the voting process. [Shādyah Yūsūf, al-Ahrām, May 21, p. 6] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, May 13, 2012
The Higher Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC) has ceased its activities because of the 'disrespectful manner' of some members of parliament towards the Committee.
For its part, the People's Assembly has referred the amendments to the presidential elections law to the Supreme Constitutional...
Date of source: Thursday, May 3, 2012
The condition of Egypt is quietly very concerning these days. I say quietly for two reasons. First, in terms of the Western audience, most is slipping under the radar. Second, in terms of Egypt, the nation waits for presidential elections, and the areas of concern are easily ignored if no attention...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has approved a draft law to bar ex-regime figures from politics for 10 years. This includes everybody who served as vice-president or prime minister under the former regime or had a leading position in the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP)...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Higher Elections Commission (HEC) will announce tomorrow (April 25, 2012) the regulations for the civil society organizations authorized to monitor the electoral process including voting and vote-counting in the presidential elections.
Signs of confrontation between the HEC and the Muslim...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Counselor Tharwat Hammād, the judge investigating the October 9, 2011 deadly incidents outside the state radio & TV building in Maspero, ordered Michael ‘Ādil and Michael Shākir be referred to the Cairo Criminal Court on charges of stealing an concealing a machinegun owned by the armed forces...
Date of source: Monday, April 23, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius said he is not ready to run for the papal post, adding he is more than 77 years old and has his own congregation in the northern Egypt governorate of al-Beheira. [Majdī Fikrī and Hānī Samīr, al-Dustūr, April 23, p. 3] Read text in...
Date of source: Sunday, April 22, 2012
Pressures are being practiced to convince acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius to quit his current interim position to officially run in the elections to select a new pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church in succession of deceased Pope Shenouda III. ['Abd al-Wahāb, al-Wafd, April 22, p. 1] Read original...
25. AWR Daily Overview, April 18, 2012: Hassān urges MB, Salafists to cooperate with Copts, liberals
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Salafī preacher Shaykh Muhammad Hassān called on the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and Salafists to stretch a cooperating hand to liberals and Copts in order to protect the nation, adding no faction should work on blackballing others. [‘Umar ‘Abd al-Jawwād, al-Jumhūrīyah, April 18, p. 3] Read text in...
Date of source: Thursday, April 5, 2012
Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Khayrat al-Shātir said the implementation of the Islamic sharī’ah is his "lifetime project," adding there is no bargaining over it. [Muhammad Rādī, al-Akhbār, April 5, p. 7] Read original text in Arabic
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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.