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Date of source: Friday, September 30, 2005
Can the launching of two satellite channels by the Coptic Orthodox Church be in response to other Christian channels that promote sectarian sedition?
Date of source: Monday, October 4, 2004
The Coptic Association of Thamarat Al-Mahaba held a conference under the title of “Citizenship and Globalization…Copts in a Changeable Society” at its headquarters in Shubra, the heart of Cairo. This title was derived from the name of a book by the researcher and writer Hany Labib. Head of the...
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
When Mustafa Bakry [editor of Al-Usboa] published the details of the report of the visit of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom [to Egypt], he was right. I am very interested in this issue, so I want to point out some comments concerning the issue of American interference in...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 31, 2004
There is a noticeable decline in the level of national identification and a rise in various forms of religious affiliation. Religious institutions have encroached upon the role of the state, apparently with good will but not always, through the services they offer to the community in many areas. I...
Date of source: Monday, July 19, 2004
The recent reactions to the movie "Baheb Al-Sima" [I love cinema] conveyed the existence of a mutual misunderstanding. Consequently, two remarkable aspects should be examined:
1-Christian fundamentalism-extremism:
1-Christian
2-Fanaticism-Sectarianism
Date of source: Saturday, March 6, 2004
The article is a response to an article published in Rose Al-Youssef about the Gospel of Barnabas. The author explains that Gospel of Barnabas did not appear until the 16th century.
Actually this scripture is forged by Europeans in the 15th century and its description of the political and the...
Date of source: Monday, April 12, 2004
During recent cultural forums and seminars organized by bodies affiliated to the Christian denominations in Egypt, many have been calling for “renewing the Coptic religious discourse.” These calls have increased lately, which makes them suspicious, especially in the light of the presence of an...
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2004
In the satellite channel Al-Hayah [Life], a man wearing the uniform of a priest and a woman in her 50s talk continuously about Islam and Christianity. They preach Christianity, but, unfortunately they attack Islam and talk in a sarcastic way about the Prophet and his companions, and the Qur’an....
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2004
There are arguments among the Copts about the call for the Misr Al-Umm [Mother Egypt] Party by some intellectuals who claimed that secularism respects and deepens national unity. But Coptic intellectuals emphasize that national unity has nothing to do with the principles of that call, which is...
Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2004
I dearly appreciate what Hani Labib wrote in his book “Al-mowatna wal-Awlama: Al-Aqbat fi mogtama’ Motaghayyer” [Citizenship and Globalization: Copts in a Changing Society] at a time when many Egyptian writers, most of whom are Muslims, attempt to hit Egypt’s Arabism and dissociate it from...
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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.