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Date of source: Sunday, August 5, 2012
Dr. Yāsir ‘Alī, the presidential spokesman, denied that “Coptic brothers” were compulsorily displaced out of the village of Dahshūr after the recent clashes, adding reports received by the presidency affirmed that they left the village due to security conditions. [Nāsir ‘Abd al-Majīd, ‘Umnīyah...
Date of source: Sunday, August 5, 2012
Mursī gave instructions to Giza Governor 'Alī 'Abd al-Rahman to speed up containment of the crisis that erupted there, including the formation of a commission within 24 hours to survey the losses and include them into the dossier of current investigations.
The commission is to estimate the proper...
Date of source: Sunday, August 5, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī ordered the authorities concerned to secure the return of Coptic families who left their homes during last week's deplorable incidents of unrest in the impoverished Giza district of Dahshūr and firmly enforce the law in order to preserve peaceful coexistence.
Presidential...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
The crisis over the drafting of Article II of the Constitution continued after representatives of the salafī camp insisted on the addition of the phrase “legislators shall enact laws based on the sources of the four Islamic madhāhib (doctrines)” as precondition for keeping the phrase “principles of...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
Meanwhile, Muftī of the Republic Dr. ‘Alī Jum’ah said Egyptians appreciate the nuncio of the Roman Catholic Church in Cairo, Michael Fitzgerald, who “used to disseminate endearment among the people of Egypt and we’d like to see him coming back to this country he loved”
Jum’ah made the remarks...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
Meanwhile, police forces in the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minyā controlled sectarian unrest in the town of Abū Qurqās after an auto rickshaw, or tuk-tuk, driven by a Muslim hit a Christian man crossing the street.
Squabbles quickly developed into clashes in which Molotov cocktails and stones...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
Sources said that members of the constitution-drafting panel nearly agreed on the cancellation of the 50% quota for farmers and workers in parliament and the Shūrá Council, the upper house of the Egyptian parliament. [Muhammad Sa’īd and Ahmad Mamdūh, Akhbār al-Yawm, July 7, p. 6] Read original text...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
Political and partisan powers are this week discussing a draft constitution prepared by the leftist al-Tajammu’ (Grouping) Party, in which it relied on the 1954 Constitution, and would send it soon to the constituent assembly.
The proposed draft started with articles pertaining to the sharī’ah that...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the Egyptian Constitution reads, “Islam is the official religion of the state, Arabic its official language and the principles of Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation”. Salafists seek removing the word ‘principles’ or replacing it with the word ‘...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2012
The crisis over the drafting of Article II of the Constitution continued after representatives of the salafī camp insisted on the addition of the phrase “legislators shall enact laws based on the sources of the four Islamic madhāhib (doctrines)” as precondition for keeping the phrase “principles of...
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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.