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Date of source: Sunday, March 18, 2012
Copts, who are brothers and partners in the nation, enjoy the rights to any state positions depending on efficiency just like any Muslim citizen except those of al-Azhar, said presidential hopeful Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā. [Michel ‘Abd Allāh, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, March 18, p. 4] Read original text in...
Date of source: Thursday, March 8, 2012
Christians are partners in the nation and must enjoy their rights and do their duty toward Egypt, rejecting quotas for Christians in parliament and public positions and calling for efficiency to be the criteria regardless of religion. [‘Abd Ilāh Muhammad, al-Akhbār, March 8, p. 6] Read text in...
Date of source: Sunday, March 4, 2012
Dr. Nājih Ibrāhīm, a key founder of the Jamā’ah Islāmīyah in Egypt and the first chairman of its shūrá (consultative) council, offered an apology to Copts for “what has befallen them as a result of the Jamā’ah’s mistakes during the 1970s and 1980s”. [Robeir al-Fāris, Watanī, March 4, p. 5] Read...
Date of source: Thursday, February 23, 2012
Political activist Michael Meunier, the leader of Al-Haya Party, denied all prosecution charges of involvement in the October 9 incidents outside the state radio & TV building in the area of Maspero that left 24 people dead and 350 others wounded. [Hātim al-Jahmī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Feb. 23, p...
Date of source: Friday, February 10, 2012
A coalition grouping Muslims and Christians for the first time was founded by with the aim of deepening full citizenship and freedoms of opinion and expression in accordance with the international law, the UN Charter, international human rights covenants and the Egyptian society’s norms and ethic...
Date of source: Monday, January 23, 2012
This text was first published in Christianity Today on January 23, 2012. Please click here for the link. Egypt’s parliamentary elections are over. While noting irregularities, former US president Jimmy Carter, through his Carter Center for promoting democracy, has judged the elections to be “...
Date of source: Saturday, December 10, 2011
News is almost never as it appears. On December 1st I went with investigative researcher and former lieutenant with the Egyptian coastal security Intelligence Rā’id al-Sharqāwī to Tahrīr square. The square is currently blocked for traffic by perhaps 2,000 demonstrators asking people wanting to...
Date of source: Thursday, October 27, 2011
The Military Prosecution ordered the release Father Philopater Jamīl, priest of the Virgin Mary and St. Youhana Church in Faysal, on recognition of his religious capacity after being interrogated over accusations of inciting unrest, disturbing peace and security, manipulating religion in sparking...
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October 9 witnessed riots in Cairo that led to the death of at least twenty-seven people and the injury of over 300, mostly from Egypt’s Coptic Christian community.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Lawyers of Father Philopater Jamīl vowed that he will appear before the Military prosecutor. Furthermore, Ahmad Sayf al-Islām, father of the blogger 'Alā' 'Abd al-Fatāh, said that his son is outside the country and would appear before the prosecution as soon as he come to Egypt.
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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.