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Date of source: Monday, September 5, 2011
A group of special needs people are in the process of establishing a political party under the name 'Challenge of Free Will', which would make it the first party of its kind. This is in preparation for the upcoming parliamentary elections, in which the party aims to participate. The group allege...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Copts from Alexandria have written to the Military Council, demanding the authorities reopen the investigation surrounding the Two Saints Church bomb attacks on New Year's Eve. This demand was triggered after the police publicly condemned the former Interior Minister, Habīb al-‘Ādlī, and the former...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The Grand Shaykh of Al-Azhar Ahmad al-Tayib has released a statement condemning the UN report issued by a committee led by former New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer, concerning the deadly Israeli action against a Gaza-bound flotilla on May 31, 2010.
The Palmer report states that Israel’...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Field Marshal Husayn Tantāwī, Commander-in-Chief and President of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), has ratified a decision stopping the implementation of verdicts issued by military courts against 230 convicts in various different cases on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.
Date of source: Thursday, August 25, 2011
Dr. 'Isām 'Iryān, vice president of the Freedom and Justice Party (affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood MB group), condemns U.S. threats to cut aid to Egypt [Read the details here on AWR] and link it to the Camp David treaty.
He added that U.S. aid is not a charity for Egypt, and that it is used to...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Sharqiya's Governor Dr. Azazy Ali Azazy has decided to honor Ahmed Shahat, who is being celebrated as a hero after tearing down the Israeli flag from the Israeli Embassy in Cairo and raising the Egyptian flag in its place.
Date of source: Friday, August 19, 2011
Field Marshal Husayn Tantāwī, Chief of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, has confirmed that the case involving activist Lu'ai Najātī and Asmā' Mahfūz, one of the leading figures of al-Tayār al-Misrī Party and former member of the Egyptian movement of 6th April, has been waivered.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) insisted on the declaration of the main principles of the constitution for a modern civil democratic Egypt.
Muhammad Fā'iq, NCHR's vice president, said that there is no argument surrounding Article 2, noting that "even Copts accept it."
Date of source: Thursday, August 18, 2011
Army Chief of Staff Sami Annan affirmed his support for the principle of Egypt as a civil state on Tuesday, saying that the principle must be enshrined in the new constitution as a matter of national security.
“We must insist on this clause,” he said during a meeting with Egyptian intellectuals,...
Date of source: Thursday, August 11, 2011
A source from St. Mark’s Cathedral told al-Dustūr that Pope Shenouda III has welcomed the draft of a law criminalizing religious discrimination, which was put forward by the National Commission for Justice and Peace two days ago.
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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.