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Date of source: Sunday, August 26, 2001
The house of a Christian family, in Al-Sharqiya, was demolished by order of the Department of Land Protection for the Agricultural Directorate of Al-Sharqiya, on the grounds that it was built on agricultural land. This house was not the only house built on Agricultural land in the area. However, it...
Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2001
The Agricultural Directorate of Sohag refused to appoint a Christian senior specialist agronomist as a department manager and appointed instead his Muslim assistant, although the former is by far better qualified. The Christian agronomist filed a lawsuit against the Agricultural Directorate and...
Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2001
When terrorist attacks erupted in 1996 in Minya, the chief of security told the priest of the church of Archangel Mikhail in Assiut, that for security reasons it was necessary to build a higher wall around the church and replace its old wooden doors with new ones. Other parts of the church were...
Date of source: Sunday, August 5, 2001
Joseph Iskandar is a Copt, who graduated with honors from the Medical School of Zagazig University. When the Medical School advertised for assistant teachers, Joseph applied for the job as he met all the conditions. However, another two with lower degrees than his were appointed.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2001
An emigrant Copt sent a letter to the editor-in-chief of Al-Ahali, complaining about an article by the Christian columnist Nagy George, who criticized Michael Meunier for writing lies in a press release claiming that the Egyptian police had fired rubber bullets against an exaggerated large number...
Date of source: Sunday, July 29, 2001
The Church of the Holy Virgin in Beni Suef got the state security approval for the erection of a new roof. Also a presidential decree to the effect that the church was licensed to replace the old timber roof with a new concrete one was issued. But when the renovation work started, security forces...
Date of source: Sunday, July 22, 2001
The Church of St. John the Baptist, in Assiut, and the Evangelical Church of Abu Hammad, in Al-Sharqiya, were given restoration licenses by the governor of Assiut and the town council of Abu Hammad, respectively. However, security forces intervened and stopped the restoration works in the two...
Date of source: Sunday, July 15, 2001
[text taken from Watani website]
Many Egyptian intellectuals believe that the crisis of Al-Nabaa has placed before the society the reality of the Coptic grievances in Egypt and the imperative need to open the Coptic file and draw it wide open in complete transparency, with no hesitation. They are...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2001
Coptic wrath was very strongly justified and should never be underestimated or discounted. The security forces were disciplined and patient in their treatment of the crisis, despite a few transgressions. Coptic activism abroad stems primarily from a genuine patriotic fervor, which is absolutely...
Date of source: Sunday, July 1, 2001
Egyptians exercise extreme patience when their rights are usurped or when they fall under oppression. However, if matters are related to their faith, they will fiercely protect their resort of last refuge. That was why the fury of the young Coptic men and women who gathered was so fierce. They did...
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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.