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Date of source: Wednesday, June 19, 2002
The National Coptic American Committee issued a report including accusations about all the leaders of Egyptian churches and distorting the integral body of Copts. The article gives the comments of some Egyptian researchers interested in national unity and in the Coptic issue. The RNSAW received a...
Date of source: Saturday, February 25, 2006
The author of this article quotes several people, the conglomoration of which reveals that the secular-based Coptic council, al-Majlis al-Mīllī, is very important and provides much assistance to the Copts and the Church, but that it also currently has many weaknesses which must be sorted through.
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2006
Verbal skirmishes took place between the Copts and Dr. Jamāl Nassār, the media advisor of the Muslim Brotherhood murshid [guide], after Nassār objected to canceling the religious identity from official papers.
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2006
Commenting on reported attempts by the Muslim Brotherhood to appease Egypt’s Copts, Coptic thinker Samīr Marqus has described the "banned” group’s dialogue with Copts as useless and of no practical value.
Date of source: Friday, December 16, 2005
Muhammad Habīb, the deputy murshid, commenting on Murshid cĀkif’s statements that the Muslim Brotherhood would respect existing treaties between Israel and Egypt, said any agreement concluded by a state "is not Qur’ān. It is human action that is subject to review.”
Date of source: Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Throughout the past 40 years, elected Coptic members of parliament have never exceeded one percent, the only exception being in 1987, when six Copts were elected to parliament out of a total number of 444, raising the rate to roughly 2%, with the exclusion of Copts appointed by virtue of a...
Date of source: Friday, October 21, 2005
As regards democracy-citizenship, the writer argues that it is of the utmost importance to work on lessening the gaps between the classes as much as possible. He hopes that the forthcoming parliamentary election will offer a favorable opportunity to have all social strata represented in the People’...
Date of source: Friday, October 14, 2005
The insistence on linking the market economy to democracy is, at its core, a return to a period of history when democracy and citizenship were marked by economic power.
Date of source: Saturday, October 15, 2005
A number of Egyptian Copts and clergy respond to ‘Adlī Abādīr’s invitation to the Washington conference, scheduled for November 17.
Date of source: Sunday, October 9, 2005
A discussion of sectarian tensions and citizenship rights in Egypt, based on a discussion on Watani Forum.
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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.