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Date of source: Sunday, March 11, 2012
Seeking to keep the case of their father in front of the public eye, the family of the Blind Shaykh, ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahmān, organized another conference at the site of their open sit-in across from the American Embassy.
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
One of the interesting subplots to the Egyptian revolution is the fate of ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahmān, known as the Blind Shaykh, who is incarcerated in America for his role in organizing the 1993 attempt to blow up the World Trade Center. His family has maintained a small sit-in protest outside the US...
Date of source: Thursday, August 25, 2011
Tens of supporters of Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel Rahman are continuing protests outside the American Embassy in Cairo for the sixth consecutive day, demanding his release from prison in the U.S.
Date of source: Saturday, June 25, 2011
Coptic Pope Shenouda III met with U.S. ambassador in Cairo Margaret Scobey, whose tour of duty expires soon.
A church source told al-Wafd newspaper, the mouthpiece of the opposition al-Wafd party, that Pope Shenouda, during the meeting, expressed his confidence in the Supreme Council of the Armed...
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2011
Thousands of Copts descended on the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in ‘Abbāssīyah, Cairo on Friday, May 6, in response to a Salafi Muslim demonstration at the same location a week earlier
Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2011
The Egyptian government on Sunday vowed to beef up security around churches and use anti-terror laws against those fomenting sectarian sedition after 12 people died in clashes outside a church between Muslims and Christians in an area near Cairo.
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2011
A march of thousands of people started from al-Nūr mosque to the U.S. embassy in Cairo/Egypt condemning the death of al-Qā'idah leader Usāmah Bin Lādin.
Shaykh Hāfiz Salāmah, the leader of the protesters, went to the embassy first by car and did not participate in the march because of his old age...
Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2011
The children of the Egyptian cleric Shaykh 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman have appealed for his release from jail in the US, saying their father is too frail to stand imprisonment thousands of miles away from home.
'Abd al-Rahman's children called on the Egyptian government to request the US government to...
Date of source: Friday, April 22, 2011
On 21 April 2011 around 500 salafists protested in central Cairo, urging U.S. authorities to release a veteran cleric imprisoned for life.
They argue that the 18-year detention of 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman, known as the Blind Sheikh, was due to a plot from the former regime and that he represents...
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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.