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Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 1999
For years, clerical and lay members of the Coptic Orthodox Church have criticized the authoritarian ways of Pope Shenouda III. The standard complaints, that he keeps church finances too close to his chest, refuses debate on issues like divorce, and is too quick to throw his opponents out of the...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
Dr. Milad Hanna commented on the Pope’s decision not to pray over the body of Ibrahim Abdel Sayyed. He said that he was not on good terms with the Pope... Since he was still a priest when he died, what is the point of the Pope’s objection to praying over Father Abdel Sayyed’s body?
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 1999
A dialogue between Dr. Maurice Asad, who has known Dr. William Sulaymān Qilāda for probably more then 50 years, and Drs. Kees Hulsman, who also knew Dr. Qilāda personally.
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Hanna claims Egypt has the ability to accept and accommodate differences. It is a divine dichotomy which has become codified under the rhetoric of national unity. It reflects the close and amicable relation between Islam and Christianity and is a product of the cultural and historical...
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 1999
"The seven pillars of the Egyptian Identity" is the title of a book by Dr. Milad Hanna who says that the Egyptian identity is a mixture of seven pillars; four main pillars and three subsidiary ones. The four pillars are: the Pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic and Islamic. The three subsidiary pillars...
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 1999
A review of a book by Milad Hanna calling for a culture of mutual acceptance and the emphasis on national identity over a sectarian religious identity, as well as some background information on Dr Milad Hanna himself.
Date of source: Saturday, March 27, 1999
Charged by the Ministry of Education, Muslim and Christian experts from all national trends joined the committee to rewrite the syllabuses about the history of Egypt -- until the Ibn Khaldoun Center began to spread its sectarian ideas about minorities. A summary of interviews with a professor in...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 24, 1999
Claims made in a recent issue of the French magazine Le Figaro about the situation regarding Copts [Coptic Christians] in Egypt are discussed.
11. Minister of Education Dr. Hussein Bahaa’ Al-Din: Copts are present in the educational syllabuses
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 1999
The Minister of Education Dr. Hussein Bahaa’ Al-Din insists that the existing educational syllabuses are against extremism, addiction and ethnic discrimination, and teach tolerance and that while there is a deficiency in some syllabuses he has charged d the Higher Committee for History with the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 28, 1999
The Minister for Education, Dr. Hussein Kamal Baha Al-Din, has issued a Ministerial decree number 29 dated January 1, 1999, to add Dr. Milad Hanna to the committee for the revision of the History curriculum at all educational levels in particular with the aim of pointing out the importance of the...
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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.