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Date of source: Thursday, October 25, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb criticized the West’s constant bias in favor of the Zionist entity, adding the Palestinian issue is the very core of all problems in the region that failure to reach permanent and just solution and establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its...
32. AWR Daily Overview, October 25, 2012: Intellectuals shrug off preacher’s call to destroy statues
Date of source: Thursday, October 25, 2012
Islamic preacher Yūsuf al-Badrī sparked extreme discontent in literary and cultural circles after his remarks in a TV show a couple of days ago in which he called for destroying “all statues and idols in Egypt as a religious duty over fears people might return to paganism”. [Muná Yāsīn, al-Misrī...
Date of source: Sunday, April 2, 2006
The authors criticize the United Nation’s failure to properly reform its discredited Human Rights Commission, and call on the U.S. to divert funding to other human rights organizations if the U.N. continues to allow tyrants and dictators into the council.
Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2002
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is expected to visit Egypt with the aim of mediating in the case of Saad Eddin Ibrahim. She asked the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet with both President Mubarak and the Minister of Interior. Only her meeting with the latter was approved.
Date of source: Thursday, April 8, 2004
Three Coptic organizations in the US submitted a demand to sue the Egyptian government for what the association said is a violation of the rights of Copts.
The documents states that Copts in Egypt suffer from persecution and assaults, and that Coptic Christian women are being forced to convert to...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 1999
A government counterattack has thrown the three-week old campaign against the new Law 153 for Associations and Civil Institutions into disarray. Social affairs minister Mervat Tellawi has led a public relations campaign to deflect international criticism of law, which aims to keep a check on the...
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 16, 1999
In the wake of presidential ratification of the controversial new Egyptian NGO law, Egypt hosted a conference on human rights and development featuring UN human rights commissioner Mary Robinson on June 7.
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
A government counterattack has thrown the three-week old campaign against the new Law 153 for Associations and Civil Institutions into disarray. Social affairs minister Mervat Tellawi has led a public relations campaign to deflect international criticism of the law, which aims to keep a check on...
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 16, 1999
President Hosni Mubarak met with Mary Robinson, the UN high commissioner for human rights, on Monday. The talks dealt with "the importance of promoting and protecting human rights on the regional and international levels," Robinson told reporters.
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.