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Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
“The roundtable meeting invitation by the U.S. embassy in Cairo with Clinton was extended to Christian figures to discuss the status of Christians in Egypt. However, I, as an Egyptian politician, am ready to discuss issues of citizenship and human rights with Egyptians on national grounds but I...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
The activists who signed the statement said Clinton and other U.S. politicians who visited Cairo since the outbreak of the January 25 revolution held a series of meetings that betrayed their and the U.S. administration’s encouragement of political Islam groups while ignoring politicians from other...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
The Egypt Copts Coalition and Coptic politicians said that Clinton’s visit aims at “dividing Egypt on a sectarian basis, which is rejected by the Egyptian people in general and the Copts in particular”.
They added that the division started when she met Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and salafī figures...
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2012
These names, however, did not appeal to Coptic youth coalitions who rejected nominations by any circles close to the papal seat, preferring former member of parliament ‘Imād Jād.
There was a space of agreement between the two camps, though: refusing names like former MP Jamāl As’ad or Muslim...
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2012
Meanwhile, a group advocating the freedom of policemen to grow their beards sent a message to President Mursī, reminding him of his pledges during TV interviews during his presidential campaigning that he would allow beard growing inside the police establishment.
“Mursī, by becoming president, has...
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2012
The Azhar Grand Shaykh’s office said Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb walked out of the ceremonies hosted by Cairo University on Saturday (June 30) on the occasion of president-elect Muhammad Mursī’s taking the constitutional oath of office out of his keenness on the dignity of the Azhar and its scholars....
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2012
The Cairo Criminal Court starts today (July 2) its first session in the trial of Michael ‘Ādil Najīb and Michael Mus’ad Shākir, the two defendants in the October 9 clashes outside the state radio & TV building in the area of Maspero, which left dozens of people killed or wounded.
The examining...
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2012
As’ad refused the appointment of a Copt as vice president “just because he is a Copt,” adding this “could mark the beginning of the quota system in politics, which is not good”.
He said that the appointment of a Coptic VP to express the problems facing Copts further entrenches the religious state...
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2012
These names, however, did not appeal to Coptic youth coalitions who rejected nominations by any circles close to the papal seat, preferring former member of parliament ‘Imād Jād.
There was a space of agreement between the two camps, though: refusing names like former MP Jamāl As’ad or Muslim...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2012
A source in the Coptic Orthodox Church revealed that ‘Abd al-Nūr and Marqus are the most likely candidates for the post, denying that the church interfered in naming some Coptic leaders for the position.
“Reports that the church called for appointing Michael Meunir as vice president are totally...
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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.