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Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2001
The Higher State Security Court continued examining the case about the publication of scandalous photos of the expelled monk in al-Mowagha paper, in which the Editor-in-Chief of the paper and another journalist are accused.
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The Emergency State Security Misdemeanor Court decided to suspend the examination of
the cases against Al
-Nabaa and Akher Khabar newspapers until it has made a decision concerning the request from the
defense to
change the members of the jury. The head of the court said that the reasons the...
Date of source:
President Mubarak
received
Pope Shenouda in Ras al-Tin palace. In a two hour meeting the president and the pope discussed issues
concerning Copts and how to maintain national unity. Neither party made a statement after the meeting.
Date of source:
The Supreme State Security
Misdemeanors Court held its second session to examine the case of Mamdouh Mahran, the
owner and the Editor
-in-Chief of al-Nabaa newspaper. The session witnessed many quarrels between Mahran’s lawyers
and the
lawyers representing the church and Pope Shenouda. Mahran’s...
Date of source:
Swift intensive efforts were made this week to contain a Muslim-Christian crisis due to a
blasphemous article, by
a Muslim writer, about a former monk. Thousands of angry youths protested against
the article, the Government was
accused of being in collusion with the paper, Pope Shenouda...
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2001
The USA criticized the way the Egyptian authorities dealt with the case of the Ibn Khaldoun Center and the sentence the Supreme Court of State Security pronounced upon its head, Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Egyptian official sources denied that such an American criticism might lead to Ibrahim’s...
Date of source:
The
State Security Supreme Court decided to postpone the trial of Saad
Eddin Ibrahim to the 19th of the coming month.
Lawyer Abdel Haleem Mandour, who defends the fifth and sixth
defendants and known for being an Islamist, said that
he will not only defend his clients but all the
defendants,...
Date of source:
The Supreme Court of
State Security
continued the trial of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Ibrahim is accused of receiving funds without having
permission, bribing public officials, undermining the dignity of the state by broadcasting information
having to do
with its interests and deceiving foreign...
Date of source: Monday, March 12, 2001
The persons mentioned in the Pope’s list for the elections of the Majlis al-Millī were the winners in the elections. The opposition demanded reformation of the order governing the council, and explained their opinion that the elections, restricted to Copts over 25 years who either have a college...
Date of source:
Two days before the trial
against
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Amnesty International announced its concern about the possibility of political motives
behind the trial. It published a statement saying that the Egyptian authorities did not follow
international
standards for fair trials, describing...
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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.