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Date of source: Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Six Coptic activists and researchers, including the author, issued a 13 page document entitled, ‘Citizens in One Nation.’ The document was aimed at returning Muslim-Christian relations to their previous level and away from the mutual doubts and religious views which incited isolation.
Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2007
Midḥat Bishāy responds to an article by Coptic researcher Sāmiḥ Fawzī about the
social seclusion of Copts inside church walls.
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2007
The article talks about the sectarian threat which Egypt faces as clashes between Muslims and Copts have been consecutively occurring sine 1972. The author believes that the deep wounds that have inflicted Egypt over the past 40 years are still unable to heal.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 6, 2007
A report of the International Labour Organization has accused the Egyptian government of systematically discriminating against Copts in both education and work opportunities. In her response, the Egyptian Minister of Labor and Immigration ‘Ā’ishah ‘Abd al-Hādī has stated that Copts, despite...
Date of source: Friday, June 1, 2007
While the Arab region has had pluralist societies for a long time, political transformation, particularly what is occurring in Iraq, has awakened sectarian and ethnic intolerance.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 29, 2007
A number of intellectual Copts have denounced the American Coptic Union’s calls for the U.S. to impose economic sanctions on Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Some days ago, the married couple Samir Marcos and Vivian Fuoad won the first annual prize of the Norwegian Academy for Arts and Freedom of Expression in recognition of their distinguished efforts in promoting understanding between Muslims and Christians in Egypt. The award has been named after the...
Date of source: Friday, May 11, 2007
The second session of the laymen’s conference was sequenced by a great uproar mainly caused by inaccurate media reporting. The laymen held what they called “a clarifying press conference” in which they tried to clarify the debatable issues reported by the press.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Nabīl ‘Abd al-Fattāh believes that religious media must first be addressed in order to achieve reform.
Bishop Bīshūy sharply criticized Father Zakarīyā Butrus for offending Muslims and Islam in his program on al-Hayāh satellite channel.
Comments that offensive statements and problems around church...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Al-Hayāh satellite channels broadcast Christian programs in which some clergymen allegedly attacked Muslims and Islam. The programs sparked severe anger of Muslims in Egypt. Consequently a number of Egyptian members of parliament asked to establish an equivalent Muslim channel to respond to al-...
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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.