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Date of source: Sunday, December 16, 2007
Provocative statements by two members of the Islamic Research Academy; Dr. Zaghlūl al-Najjār and Dr. Muṣṭafá Muḥammad al-Shak‘ah, ignited the anger of Copts in Egypt when they attacked the Christian belief.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 19, 2007
The article presents a specific case of a man who converted to Christianity, and the problems that he was faced with following his decision.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 19, 2007
The following article presents an introduction to the debate about the freedom of religion and conversion in Egypt, focusing on legal cases of conversions, specifically changing one’s religious identity on identification cards.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Although Egyptian civil law does not prohibit conversion from one religion to another, there are discrepancies in an individual’s ability to convert.
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2007
A lawsuit against the president of the republic was postponed to December 12, 2007.
Date of source: Sunday, November 25, 2007
Press releases in Egyptian newspapers last week highlighted the repercussions to the conference on citizenship that was organized by the National Council for Human Rights. Many reporters considered the conference to be one of a long queue of intellectual fruitless gatherings.
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2007
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Fū’ād al-Miṣrī interviewed Kamīl Ḥalīm, president of the Coptic Assembly of America and one of
the organizers of the Coptic conference in Chicago, to speak about the main goals of the conference and the future
agendas of Coptic organizations in the West.
Date of source: Monday, November 12, 2007
The critical health condition of Pope Shenouda aroused arguments about his expected successor. While a group of laymen calls for a new law to be established for the papal elections, the church expresses its discontentment towards what it considers to be the laymen’s interference in church’s affairs...
Date of source: Saturday, November 3, 2007
The head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization [EUHRO] Counsel Nagīb Jibrā’īl has lodged a complaint before the general prosecution against al-Hāmūl prosecutor for not following legal procedures in a case of a Christian-born girl who converted to Islam.
Date of source: Monday, December 17, 2007
Kees Hulsman lectured at the Free University in Amsterdam, comparing religious pluralism in Cairo with Amsterdam.
Dr. ‘Abd al-Mu‘tī Bayyūmī wrote about interpretations of the Qur’ānic verse “No compulsion in religion.”
Comments on articles criticizing four human rights centers in Egypt for inciting...
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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.