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Date of source: Sunday, January 29, 2006
These articles address how sectarian strife in Egypt occurs in several areas under various forms. Although calm appears to be quickly restored, everyone seems to await a new crisis. The writers suggest that old ways of dealing with the crisis are futile, and that there should be more frankness and...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Chairman of the Proposals and Complaints’ Committee at the People’s Assembly, Muhammad Juwīlī, has recently proposed a draft law on a unified code for houses of worship in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Rif‘at al-Sa‘īd argues that Islam, like any other religion, has experienced a theocracy that was founded by the Prophet Muhammad and ended when he died. He argues that a theocracy now would lead to despotism.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
The author discusses the historical debates on the proportional representation of Copts and states that the idea was originally refused because Muslims and Copts felt that it was in Egypt’s best interests to put national identity above religious identity.
Date of source: Sunday, January 8, 2006
Egyptian authorities have detained hundreds of Sudanese refugees in several camps in preparation to deport those who have no UNHCR registry documents. About three million Sudanese are living in Egypt; most of them are crushed by abject poverty, including 50 million refugees and asylum seekers, with...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 21, 2005
‘Alī Najīb states that Muslims and Christians in Egypt live in harmony and are bound by joint interests.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 21, 2005
A press review of attitudes to the Muslim Brotherhood and its role in the new parliament, criticism that the group is putting party politics over the Egyptian people, and statements by leading figures in the group questioning the Holocaust.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Nabīl Zakī believes that Egypt is now at a crossroads between a religious and a civil state.
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, December 7, 2005
The issues of emigration, growing rates of unemployment and young Egyptians’ frustration and incessant attempts to emigrate, are increasingly important. However, the author argues that over the past quarter of a century, the ruling regime has been weakening and belittling the official institutions...
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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.