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The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) organized small study groups in order to examine the topic about Copts rights in Egypt through a historical examination of the facts, the roots of the problems and some recommendations
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This recording is of a conference that focuses on Coptic rights in Egypt through a historical examination of facts, the roots of the problems and some recommendations. The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) organized small study groups in order to examine the topic in a...
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This Conference was held at the Ibn Khaldūn Center for Development Studies in the event of the second conference on minorities. Several speeches were given especially on Coptic rights in Egypt and related to the Muslim Christian incident of 1996 in Kafr Dimyān (Delta) and the terrorist...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The author records changes that have happened in Egyptian society, wondering about reasons that prompt Egyptians to abandon all the features of their own culture, traditions and even patriotism.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Sulaymān Shafīq raises a number of notes on the issue of the renewal of religious discourse – in both the church and the Azhar – in light of the daily controversy over the conversion from one religion to another. Shafīq believes that men of religion should be studying worldly sciences alongside...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 28, 2007
The author discusses the issue of religious conversion in Egypt. He advocates legalizing conversion through a "court of conscience" to ensure that converts are sincere in their intent to embrace a new religion and that they are not being forcibly proselytized in order to overcome conversion which...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Sulaymān Shafīq refers to three different issues that were widely discussed in the Egyptian media in 2007. Strongly related to the value of the freedom of belief, these issues are the Bahā’ī case, Christians converting to Islam and vice versa, and finally, the case of Muḥammad Ḥijāzī and his wife...
Date of source: Monday, November 12, 2007
Statements by Dutch Bishop Tiny Muskens on a Dutch TV program on the use of the name Allah and God by Muslims and Christians.
Sāmih Fawzī believes there is a need to enact a law that regulates the issue of conversion.
Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2007
Sulaymān Shafīq presents a brief overview of the history of Waṭanī since its establishment in 1958 until now. He divides the developments of the 49-year old institution into four main phases.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Sulaymān Shafīq comments on the controversy surrounding the elections of the Coptic patriarch, arguing that whether the patriarch should be a monk or a married priest is not the core issue. In his view, the agenda of the next pope is a more important subject in light of the challenges that the...
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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.