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Date of source: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Four Egyptian editors have been sentenced to a one-year jail sentence with hard labor and given fines for publishing false information about President Husnī Mubārak suffering from a serious health condition to undermine national security. The following report discusses the reactions of the four...
Date of source: Saturday, September 15, 2007
At a time when the Egyptian press market was still discussing the aftermath of the State Security Prosecution’s interrogation of an independent journalist on charges of spreading rumors about the president’s health, a new wave of anger stormed Egyptian society after a misdemeanor court sentenced...
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2007 to Friday, August 24, 2007
This article shows the opinions of a number of leading journalists regarding the state-owned press and the calls to privatize it.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Leader of al-Nājūn min al-Nār [Survivors of the Fire] organization, Majdī Zīnhum al-Safatī, announced his support for the initiative to cease the use of violence, as well as for the jurisprudential reviews which the Jihād Organization is conducting inside prisons.
Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2007
The article responds to Mr. Makram Muhammad Ahmad’s previous article, in which he believes that Pope
Shenouda seems to have tired of security after the recent sectarian strife took place in Bimhā village in al-
‘Ayyāt...
Date of source: Saturday, June 9, 2007
Pope Shenouda’s recent sermons to the Copts of Egypt show that the man is despondent about the manner in which recent events of al-‘Ayyāṭ were dealt with.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 to Tuesday, May 29, 2007
The article is based on a listing of articles that tackle two controversial fatwás issued by two prominent Islamic scholars. The first Fatwá was issued by Dr. ‘Izzat ‘Atīyah, the head of the Hadīth Department of the Faculty of Usūl al-Dīn [Fundamentals of Religion] at the Azhar University. The...
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Egypt’s al-Jihād group has stunned public opinion with its recent announcement that it killed al-Ahrām journalist Ridā Hilāl, whose mysterious disappearance a couple of years ago bewildered the security agencies.
Date of source: Monday, May 14, 2007
The incidents of sectarian violence in the Egyptian village of Bimhā provoked commentators who believe that the scenario of sectarian unrest related to church building has repeatedly occurred, demanding that the government take prompt actions to resolve the problem of church construction.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Report on court rulings about whether or not Christian converts to Islam should be able to return to their original faith.
Comments on sectarian tensions in Bimha, a Christian village near Ayat.
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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.