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Date of source: Saturday, September 1, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī made a promise in his election campaigne to appoint Christian, woman and youth as vice-presidents. Well, he fullfilled his promise by appointing a Christian and a women, I am not sure about a youngman though! There is a joke circulating on social-networking websites, namely...
Date of source: Saturday, July 28, 2012
Dozens of Copts protested inside the St. Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-'Abbāssīyah on Friday (July 27) to appeal to the Coptic Orthodox Church representatives to withdraw from the constitution-writing assembly which they termed as "sectarian". ['Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, July 28...
Date of source: Thursday, July 26, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī endorsed a decision appointing former Deputy Governor of Cairo Samīr Marqus as an aide to the president amidst welcome in Coptic circles that praised Marqus’s political and intellectual savvy. [Hadīr Subhī and Manāl Sulaymān, al-Misryūn, July 26, p. 3] Read original text...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
The salafī al-Nūr Party severely slammed Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb for rejecting to provide explanations for the word “principles” in the constitution, urging him to issue a statement indicating why he insists on keeping Article II unchanged. [Hamdī Dabash, ‘Usāmah al-Mahdī,...
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2012
Coptic circles have been lately preoccupied with the figure to be vice president, comparing some effective names like incumbent Minister of Tourism Munīr Fakhrī ‘Abd al-Nūr, thinker and political researcher Samīr Marqus, activist Michael Meunir and former lawmaker Georgette Qillīnī. [‘Abd al-Wahāb...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2012
Several Coptic activists, emerging from a meeting at the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, agreed to name two Copts for vice president post or membership of a presidential council – Tourism Minister Munīr Fakhrī ‘Abd al-Nūr or Deputy Governor of Cairo for the Northern Area Samīr Marqus...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Egypt’s president-elect Dr. Muhammad Mursī, received the January 25 revolution martyrs' families and those who were injured at the presidential palace for a meeting in which he stressed his support for them.
He also met with the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, Muftī of the Republic ‘...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
People's Assembly Speaker Sa'd al-Katātnī announced the final list of the 100 members of the constituent assembly that would draft a new constitution for Egypt. [Muhammad Abū Zayd and Muhammad Sālim, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, June 13, p. 1] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, January 1, 2012
[This is a full transcript of an interview made on December 2, 2011]
The results of the first round of the Egyptian elections show that Islamist parties appear to have won by a landslide. The Muslim Brotherhood created the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) that has apparently received 40-45 percent...
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2011
Is the church in Egypt persecuted? Many Coptic Christians would answer in the affirmative. I definitely agree that the situation for Christians in Egypt has worsened but I do not agree using the word persecution before we have first agreed on a definition and compare facts on the ground with this...
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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.