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Date of source: Sunday, August 5, 2012
Mursī gave instructions to Giza Governor 'Alī 'Abd al-Rahman to speed up containment of the crisis that erupted there, including the formation of a commission within 24 hours to survey the losses and include them into the dossier of current investigations.
The commission is to estimate the proper...
Date of source: Sunday, August 5, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī ordered the authorities concerned to secure the return of Coptic families who left their homes during last week's deplorable incidents of unrest in the impoverished Giza district of Dahshūr and firmly enforce the law in order to preserve peaceful coexistence.
Presidential...
Date of source: Monday, August 6, 2012
A state of anxiety is dominating the village of Dahshūr as the 33 Coptic families that were forced to leave their dwelling places after clashes between Muslims and Copts that left Mu’āz Muhammad Hasab Allāh dead are to return home.
President Muhammad Mursī had ordered all authorities concerned to...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization Counselor Najīb Jabrā’īl, for his part, called heads of churches to withdraw from the Family House initiative in protest against the persecution of and attacks against Copts.Jabrā’īl warned that Copts could leave the country and said that the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
General Bishop Theodosius of Giza called the Egyptian authorities to enforce the law on everyone and to stop thuggery and pillaging of citizens’ private property. He made the remarks in a statement on the incidents of Dahshūr. He also called for the return of Copts to their houses in the village...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 31, 2012
The communication committee of the Constituent Assembly (charged with drafting a new Egyptian constitution) conducted its first meeting with the title “draft your constitution” in Sharm al-Shaykh.The governor of Sinai said that the committee’s goal is to hear all suggestions to make sure Sinai...
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2012
The meeting is also expected to discuss plans to set up branches of the Family House initiative in Egyptian governorates. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Akhbār, July 30, p. 3] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2012
“We have not reached outcome that compel us to quit. We should not be governed by unbalanced demonstrations. If there is going to be any withdrawal from the assembly, then it has to be based on objective reasons,” said Bayyādī in statements.
Father Yūhannā Qultah, the deputy patriarch of the of...
Date of source: Sunday, July 29, 2012
Meanwhile, Counselor Munsif Sulaymān, a representative of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the constituent assembly writing a new constitution for Egypt, said there is nothing that should justify protests by the Maspero Youth Union, adding matters are going very normal inside the panel.
Several Union...
Date of source: Sunday, July 29, 2012
Clashes between two Muslim and Christian families in the village of Dahshūr, al-Badrashīn, Giza, toned down after a thick security presence in the area.
The unrest began after a Christian makwagī (a person ironing clothes in a shop in Egypt for a living) called Sāmih Sāmī Yūsuf burnt the shirt of a...
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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.