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Date of source: Sunday, April 12, 2015
The Egyptian court has sentenced to death General Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, MUhammad Badīʿ, and 13 others who have been charged with violence. Several other leading members of the organisation have been given life sentences.
Date of source: Monday, April 29, 2013
There was calm in the city of al-Wastá today following angry protests on Friday outside Saint George (Mār Jirjris) Church after it was accused of hiding a woman, Ranā Hātim al-Shāzlī. Ranā’s father revealed that meetings were had taken place between the family and one of the President’s advisors,...
Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2010
Thousands of Christians tourists and Muslims, led by South Sinai Governor 'Abd al-Fadīl Shūshah and ambassadors in Egypt, gathered at the foot of Mount Sinai to celebrate St. Catherine festival.
Bishop Damyanous, Greek Orthodox archbishop of Mount Sinai and Raithu; Abbot of St. Catherine’s...
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During a seminar held at the Journalists? Syndicate, the heavyweight Muslim scholar Shaykh al-Qaradawi discussed, among other subjects, the situation in Iraq. Shaykh al-Qaradawi, the head of the newly established, Ireland-based Union of Muslim Scholars, was quoted as saying that all Americans in...
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The efforts of
the Shaykh of the Azhar to dissolve the Azhar Scholars Front and
to turn it into "The benevolent
organization for helping the children of the workers in the Azhar," have succeeded.
The Supreme Court of
Administrative Justice ruled to dissolve the Front and to change both its...
Date of source:
Al-Arabi
and Āfāq Arabia
reported that a great many Jews came to the village of Demtawa to celebrate the mulid of Abū
Hasera. al-
Ahrar wrote that this year only three Jews attended the celebration. Rose al-Youssef mentioned that the
celebration was canceled by an Egyptian decree. It pointed...
Date of source: Saturday, October 23, 2004
At the beginning of the last decade of the twentieth century, Western civilization has started to see Islam as an enemy that can replace the former Soviet Union. Western hatred and enmity towards Islam go back to the early nineties of the twentieth century and not to the September 11 attacks as...
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2004
The reactions within Church and Coptic institutions towards the culture of licentiousness, spread by video clips [of Arabic songs] are not different from those within Islamic circles. "I am afraid that we are losing out identity. We used to express our pride of our Eastern culture and our adherence...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Western churches feel envy because Islam resisted, and is still resisting, secularism, persevering the influence of religion in the hearts of Muslims. These churches seek to contaminate the Islamic body with the very same germs that undermined western societies' religiousness. After the collapse of...
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2004
Ali Laban, a member of the parliament belonging to the Brotherhood parliamentary bloc, submitted a question to the Prime Minister and the Ministers of Education and Interior in which he wondered about the government's attitude towards the declaration given by Dr. Farouq Al-Hetami, vice-chairman of...
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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.