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Date of source: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Tharwat Hammād, the judge mandated by the justice ministry to investigate the incidents that took place outside the state radio & TV building in the Cairo district of Maspero on October 9, ordered the release of political activist Michael Meunier. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, Feb. 22, p. 5...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2012
A fact-finding commission sent by the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) to investigate the sectarian unrest in the troubled district of al-'Āmrīyah, Alexandria, revealed that the Christian families forced to leave their homes and property after clashes over a purported love affair...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Sectarian fitnah ignited anew on Monday (January 30) in the village of Sharbāt, al-Nahdah district, western Alexandria, where young men attacked several houses and stores owned by Christians, started fire and pelted stones, leaving three stores ablaze. [Amīrah Fathī, al-Wafd, Feb. 1, p. 3] Read...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 4, 2011
The Maspero Youth Union, the largest political Coptic advocacy group, announced it would not receive the Coptic Christmas greetings from “officials involved in the killing, mowing and dragging of the revolutionaries, nor from the Islamist movements that called months ago for burning and attacking...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Activist 'Alā' 'Abd al-Fattāh said that assaults on women will have a strong reaction on January 25, 2012, adding "we will take revenge for women." ['Alā' al-Dīn Sālim and Safā' Shākir, Al-Ahrām, Dec. 28, p. 5] Read the original text in Arabic
Date of source: Wednesday, December 7, 2011
No doubt there have been some terrorist incidents committed recently which included murder, arson, looting, attacks targeting houses of worship, cutting off human body parts under the pretext of applying the Islamic hudūd and the covering or destroying of archeological statues.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The attitude of Copts in previous elections was often one that decided not to vote, or to run in the elections. This time it was different.
Bishop Mūsá, the bishop of youth in the Coptic Orthodox Church, said that the church raised awareness among Christians about the elections, saying that the...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Judge Amir Ramzī, a member of the National Justice Committee, has labeled the meeting between Field Marshal Tantāwī and Pope Shenouda as "purely political" and as "having nothing to do with investigations into Maspero incidents."
"Investigations of a criminal nature are being conducted into the...
Date of source: Thursday, October 13, 2011
Clashes erupted between the military and the Copts during the latters' protests off the state TV building in Maspero, on October 9, 2011, leaving nearly 24 Copts dead and 212 others injured. Some reports mentioned the death of three army soldiers and 100 others injured.
Date of source: Friday, September 30, 2011
The Copts for Egypt movement called on political parties and movements to boycott elections because rushing into elections during this state of lawlessness the country is going through will only bring bad results.
[Reviewer's Note: New story was also covered in al-Ahālī, October 5, 2011 and has no...
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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.