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Date of source: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
This is the first installment of an investigation into why, according to the work, the Azhar has lost much of its former status in the Muslim world.
The article attributes much of this to the cancellation of a large number of Azhar University research centers as a cost-cutting measure. The...
Date of source: Sunday, July 25, 2010
'Alī Jum'ah, the muftī of Egypt, states that modern Western civilization has benefited a lot from the Islamic civilization and vice versa. He stresses that in both civilizations there are some moderate, objective figures who contribute to establishing a world of peaceful coexistence.
In his article...
Date of source: Sunday, November 7, 2010
A group of Copts living abroad have filed a lawsuit against Shaykh Yūsuf al-Badrī in Great Britain for soliciting the murder of Copts. Dr. Ibrāhīm Habīb, the President of United Copts of Great Britain, explained that freedom of religious belief is a basic human right and that article number 46 in...
Date of source: Sunday, November 7, 2010
In an interview with al-Ahrār, head of the new “al-Istiqāmah” party, ‘Ādil Fakhrī Dānyāl, said the Egyptian Party Affairs Committee’s approval of the new party under the current circumstances of threats to national unity is rather significant. He said he agrees that new places of worship should be...
Date of source: Monday, November 29, 2010
Today’s incidents in Qena proved Bishop Kyrillos' claims (that security needs to be intensified at voting booths) to be true. A number of men drove up to the electoral center and started throwing Molotov cocktails. Authorities arrested two of the men. The authorities were also forced to surround a...
Date of source: Friday, November 26, 2010
Discussing the ‘Umrāniyyah riots last Wednesday, Orascom Telecom Board Chairman Najīb Sawirus argued that Christians in Egypt are not in such a dire need for churches that they should build them illegally, pointing out that during al-Qā‘idah’s threats to Egyptian churches, half of them were empty....
Date of source: Friday, November 26, 2010
The head of the Egyptian Organization for Defending Policemen and Citizens, Samīr al-Shishtāwī, filed a report to the Attorney General against the Coptic Diaspora, accusing them of plotting Wednesday’s riots with the intentions of harming national unity. Al-Shishtāwī urged the Attorney General to...
Date of source: Saturday, November 20, 2010
A source close to Pope Shenouda III said that the Church’s support for a number of National Democratic Party candidates is only because of the personal relationship between those candidates and the Pope and that it should not be considered interference in the parliamentary elections. He added that...
Date of source: Friday, November 12, 2010
At his weekly meeting, Pope Shenouda III denied rumours of his leg being injured or broken. Bishop Bīshūy made his first public appearance in two months at the meeting, which was titled “There is a God.” During the meeting, the Pope answered many questions on various ethical and practical topics....
Date of source: Friday, November 12, 2010
The Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement claiming that 27 of its supporters were arrested in Ismailia and 6th of October City while hanging posters to promote the group’s parliamentary candidates. The group also warned against the consequences of security forces using extreme violence, such as...
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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.