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Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Coptic activist and parliamentarian Muná Makram ‘Ubayd said Copts have some concerns about losing the right of citizenship, particularly after a string of sectarian incidents that erupted since the January 25 revolution.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Coptic Orthodox Bishop Mūsá of Youth called on all Muslim and Christian young people to seek tranquility so they can think about the future of their own country with depth, honesty and collective work.
Date of source: Thursday, January 29, 2015
Munā Makram ‘Ibīd, a member of the previous People’s Council, said that the golden age for the Copts in Egypt was in the period of liberalism from 1919 to 1952. She justified her claim saying, “At that time we had Sa’ad Zaghlūl as our leader. He was able to join together the Egyptian nation with...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Today’s overview deals with calls by a former senior U.S. diplomat, Dennis Ross, on Egypt to accept the reality and play by a set of rules, saying the record to date is not good: news reports suggest that more than 100,000 Coptic Christians have left Egypt; there have been new efforts to...
Date of source: Friday, September 16, 2011
Muná Makram 'Ubayd officially resigned from al-Wafd political party and joined the Egyptian Social Democratic Party.
She said that some members of the dissolved National Democratic Party had joined al-Wafd.
She denied that her resignation had to do with the alliance between al-Wafd and the Muslim...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Muná Makram 'Ubayd, an al-Wafd Party figure, said that there is not presently an Islamic State in Egypt, nor will there be after the January Revolution, where there is no room for eliminating any element in the country. She stressed her support of the civil state.
She added that Egypt is a civil...
Date of source: Sunday, May 1, 2011
Muná Makram 'Ubayd, a member of the January 25 Revolution's Board of Trustees, said that she does not think Egyptian citizens, Christians or Muslims, will accept a president from the Muslim Brotherhood group or any other cleric.
She is against canceling the second article of the constitution but...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
The author criticizes an article by Muná Makram ‘Ubayd in al-Shurūq on December 3, 2010 in which she described her lack of success in winning a seat in the women's quota system during the recent parliamentary elections. Labīb says that ‘Ubayd concludes that this loss is a message to Copts that...
Date of source: Monday, November 29, 2010
Du‘ā’ talks about the race for the quota of women’s seats in parliament, which she claims to be – like the whole elections – marred by accusations of violence, vote-buying, and fraud. She visited the female-only poll stations and talked to a few voters who made it clear they were not interested in...
Date of source: Monday, November 22, 2010
The al-Wafd Party candidate in Qalyubia said that it is essential for a parliamentary representative to pressure the government into fulfilling his district’s needs. Muná Makram ‘Ubayd also said that Qalyubia is a perfect example of Egyptian national unity. Bishop Marqus praised Qalyubia governor ‘...
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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.