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Date of source: Tuesday, July 21, 2020
A tragic scene emerged from the Mamluk [al-Mamālīk] Cemetery after the demolition of dozens of tombs to make way for the Paradise [al-Firdaws] Axis [a highway project to connect al-Firdaws Square on Ṣalāḥ Sālim Street to al-Mushīr Axis]. Pictures and videos circulating on social media show...
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Political and social theorist Sir Isaiah Berlin famously compared nationalism to a ‘bent twig’, ‘forced down so severely that when released, it lashed back wit
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This Conference was held at Ibn Khaldūn Center for Development Studies in the event of the second conference on minorities. Several speeches were given especially on Coptic rights in Egypt and related to the Muslim Christian incident of 1996 in Kafr Dimyān (Delta) and the terrorist...
Date of source: Monday, February 8, 2016
Three years ago, on February 27, 2013, we interviewed Aḥmad Ashūsh in our office. These were the days of President Muhammad Mursī and we then made efforts to understand the motivations of the different people involved various Islamists movements. Aḥmad Ashūsh was arrested in October 2013 for the...
Date of source: Sunday, June 13, 2010
This article reviews a book concerning the Egyptian national identity in recent history, especially focusing on the impact of religion.
Date of source: Thursday, April 8, 2010
The year 1911 witnessed two important conferences. The first was a Coptic conference held in March to shed light on some of the Coptic demands and problems in Egypt. In response, an Islamic conference was held in April to discuss the Coptic demands, and at the same time warn against the religious...
Date of source: Sunday, April 8, 2007
The following lines highlight the historic background of religious and civil states in Egypt. Muṣṭafá Kāmil was the advocate of an Islamic state a century ago. He was defeated by a national group that advocates a civil state. The same struggle appears to be repeating nowadays with discussions over...
Date of source: Sunday, July 16, 2006
Watani interviews one of the founders of the political party Misr al-Umm, which was recently denied a license by the Administrative Court because its platform clashed with the Egyptian constitution and the sharī‘ah due to its emphasis on secularism.
Date of source: Sunday, April 16, 2006
The author discusses the problem of conveying the meaning of secularism and secular thought to the average Egyptian, who considers secularism synonymous with atheism.
Date of source: Thursday, April 4, 2002
Lord Cromer, the British High Commissioner to Egypt during the British occupation of Egypt, wrote a book called “The Modern Egypt.” In this book he claimed that Islam is the reason behind the backwardness of Egypt and that the Orthodox Church is the least among the Christian denomination in...
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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.