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Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
A notification was introduced to the Prosecutor General against the Editor-in-Chief of Sout-Al-Umma because the paper published an article claiming that 70,000 Copt forged rape reports about their wives to get American nationality. The article aroused the anger of Copts and Pope Shenouda said he...
Date of source: Thursday, July 5, 2001
The Administrative Court decided to withdraw the license of Al-Nabaa newspaper for publishing material against the foundations of Egyptian society: religion, family, and national ethics.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 3, 2001
Tomorrow the Egyptian Administrative Court is to end the controversy about Al-Nabaa newspaper. It will also look into two cases filed by Mamdouh Mahran. In the first he tries to override a verbal ruling by the Minister of Interior prohibiting the press house from operating and in the second he...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 4, 2001
The author expressed the opinion that the cancellation of the pope’s weekly meeting was accompanied by fear of a return to the denominational atmosphere of the September 1981 events. The fact that the Coptic youth didn’t protest about Al-Nabaa to the People’s Assembly or the Supreme Press Council...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2001 to Friday, July 13, 2001
The author expressed his surprise at the fact that when Copts felt insulted because of what Al-Nabaa published, they went to the Cathedral and not to the People’s Assembly or the Supreme Press Council. He believes that neither the Cathedral nor the Azhar are places where Egyptians should go to...
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2001
President Mubarak stressed that posts in Egypt were not distributed on a sectarian basis but on the basis of efficiency and merit and that there was no discrimination between Muslims and Copts. As for Al-Kosheh rulings, he stressed that there was no intervention in the rulings the court made....
Date of source: Saturday, June 30, 2001
President Mubarak warned against the consequences of a conflict between Muslims and Copts, and stressed the guarantees that the Egyptian law should offer for freedom of belief. In his meeting with the parliamentary members of the [ruling] National Democratic Party, he discussed the conflict...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2001
The Egyptian press coverage of Al-Nabaa covers areas such as the public’s opinion of the paper, the Virgin Mary mulid [pilgrimage festival] at Al-Muharraq monastery, plus interviews with the Coptic youth who demonstrated in front of the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo and the lawyer for the lady who was...
Date of source: Saturday, June 23, 2001 to Friday, June 29, 2001
The dangerous difference between the tabloids in Egypt and elsewhere is that in Egypt they have sneaked in uncontrolled by the officials, to a public unaware of the credibility of such papers. Where does freedom of the press end and where do its responsibilities begin? Shutting down newspapers by...
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2001
Worse than the usual lewd literature and pictures, this paper went straight for the Coptic Church, Coptic monasteries, and clerics. Everyone was hurt and shocked at the shameless assault on values and morals. It is a glaring example of poor journalism and of ignoble journalistic ethics.
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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.