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Date of source: Wednesday, October 27, 2004
A three-day conference was held in the Swiss city of Zurich under the title of “Egyptian Copts … a Minority under Siege.” The conference, in which some suspicious agencies participated, started on Thursday and concluded on Saturday. A look at the titles of the papers discussed during the conference...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
A conferee on Coptic problems was held in Zurich, Switzerland and tackled the current cares of Copts in Egypt where conflicting reports do not give a chance to reach the facts. The conference was organized by an Egyptian Copt who lives in Switzerland, Adli Abadier, and funded by several US and...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 2004
Last week’s editorial inspired significant feedback from readers and friends, who were eager to comment on the exclusion of Copts from leading administrative positions. Although the question has been one of the most important long-ignored problems in Egypt, it surfaced again when the recent...
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2005
Nominating a Copt for President has triggered a lot of controversial points of views following the nomination of Copt businessman ‘Adlī Abādīr, residing in Switzerland.
Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
‘Adlī
Abādīr, an Egyptian business man, left to Switzerland upon his release from jail in 1987, and now heads
international conferences of expatriate Coptic organizations. In view of what he described as the deteriorating and retarded
conditions of Egypt, he decided to run for President in the...
Date of source: Monday, April 11, 2005
Reuters News Agency reported that, Dr. Ahmad Sābir, an academic teacher of Economics at a British university [not mentioned which university], and a Director of a financial consultancy firm [name not mentioned], formed a group under the name of “Inqizou Misr” [Save Egypt]. It is an opposition...
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2004
Participants of "The first international symposium of Egyptian Copts: A minority under siege.” addressed the symposium on one of three levels. The first expressed wrath at the deterioration in the state of affairs of the Copts throughout the past half – century. On the second level, participants...
Date of source: Sunday, April 26, 1998
This is the full text of the summary published in Watani, April 26, 1998
Date of source: Friday, November 19, 1999
Dr. Ragheb Moftah beliefs that Coptic music has its origins in pharaonic music but others have serious doubts about this and say this cannot be proved because ancient pharaonic music was not written down. Dr. Moftah wants to preserve the old church music while others call for renewal.
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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.