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Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2001
Beside recounting how the state dealt with Al-Nabaa crisis and commenting on the pope’s decision to limit tourism to monasteries, the author expressed the opinion that the crisis of Al-Nabaa negatively affected journalism and pushed 35 MPs to introduce a draft law to sweep away the amount of...
Date of source: Friday, July 13, 2001
The author received many letters comparing the story Al-Nabaa published about the expelled monk and the contents of "A banquet for Seaweed," "The Formation Period" and "Yathrib Community," which are believed to disdain Islam. His conclusion was that the law prohibits scorning religions and that is...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2001
The author commented on Tareq Al-Bishri’s article, in which he compared the attitude of the State towards the Coptic youth demonstrations against what Al-Nabaa published to the Azhar students’ demonstrations against the publication of the "Banquet for Seaweed." He believes that the State was very...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 3, 2001
The crisis of Al-Nabaa shows the fact that Egyptians are targeted and that damaging their national unity is a historical issue. Egypt has a wide range of media influence to make something a matter of concern. Many regional and international powers are looking with worry at Egypt’s national unity....
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: Monday, July 9, 2001
The writer believes that the demonstrations by thousands of Coptic youths in the Patriarchate, protesting about what Al-Nabaa published, should not be considered only in the light of Al-Nabaa disaster. He compared between the problem the "Banquet for Seaweed" caused and that caused by the story of...
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: Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Fahmi Howeidi believes that anger ruined the right way of handling the case of the expelled monk. Instead of regarding it as an attempt to attack the public system, violating the traditions of the journalism profession, it was regarded as a matter concerning only Copts. The angry people did not...
Date of source: Saturday, June 23, 2001 to Friday, June 29, 2001
Mamdouh Mahran claimed that he was being patronized by the Journalists Syndicate. Many complaints were received against the newspaper because of fabricated or baseless news stories and nude pictures. A few days before he published the story about the former monk they questioned him about the fact...
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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.