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Date of source: Friday, December 13, 2013
Geert Wilders the head of the Party of Freedom in the Netherlands, known for his racist views, have angered Muslims in the Netherlands after removing the Islamic testimony “Lā Illaha Illā Allā Muhammad Rasūlu Alla” (“There is no God but God, Muhammad is the Prophet of God”) from the Saudi flag, an...
Date of source: Friday, November 29, 2013
A number of Nūr Party leaders have denounced that the Church has interfered in the so-called “identity articles” pertaining to sharī’ah in the Constitution. They requested that the Church stop intervening in Muslims’ affairs. Dr. Ahmad Rashwān, the member of the high board of the Nūr Party, stated...
Date of source: Friday, November 29, 2013
Al-Azhar scholars have denounced the statements of Bishop Bola, the representative of the Orthodox Church in the Constituent Assembly. Bishop Bola had rejected the reference by Al-Azhar regarding sharī’ah affairs. Scholars similarly rejected his call to include the term “civil (secular) state” in...
Date of source: Friday, July 26, 2013
Coptic Catholic Patriarch Cardinal Ibrāhīm Ishāq Sīdrāk expressed his persuasion that it is impossible to apply in Egypt the secular model adopted by countries located beyond the Alps.
According to the Italian News Agency (AKI), he also expressed his hope for the new government to include in the...
Date of source: Friday, July 26, 2013
Coptic Catholic Patriarch Cardinal Ibrāhīm Ishāq Sīdrāk expressed his persuasion that it is impossible to apply in Egypt the secular model adopted by countries located beyond the Alps.
According to the Italian News Agency (AKI), he also expressed his hope for the new government to include in the...
Date of source: Friday, May 10, 2013
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb met with scholars from Salafī Call and leaders of al-Nūr Party at the Azhar. Dr. 'Abdullah Badrān, representing the parliamentary body of the Shūrá Party, said that the visit addressed a number of important issues such as cooperation in national and sectarian issues, and the...
Date of source: Friday, February 15, 2013
The Salafī Call, or da’wah, returned a piece of land to its Christian owner in Alexandria after Dr. Ihāb Ramzī and Dr. Sūzī Nāshid called Shaykh Shirīf al-Hawārī, board member of the Salafī Call, to intervene to solve the problem (Author not mentioned, al-Fath, Feb. 15, p. 1). Read original text in...
Date of source: Friday, January 25, 2013
Al-Fath reported on the sectarian incidents erupted in al-Marāshdah village in al-Waqf Township of Qena Governorate. A Copt was being accused of sexually assaulting a Muslim young girl. Clashes erupted between the Muslim villagers and security. Al-Fath stressed that the wisdom of al-Nūr Party...
Date of source: Friday, February 3, 2012
In al-Fath newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Salafī al-Nūr Party, published a cartoon depicting two mathematical equations. The first one draws a flag of Egypt minus a copy of the Qur'ān equals a flag of Israel while the first one draws a flag of Egypt plus a copy of the Qur'ān equals dignity. [...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Nādir al-Sirfī, the President of the Union of 38 Copts, reported that he resigned from the Tomorrow’s Revolution Party in order to join the Nūr Party and become a candidate in its ranks. During a press conference, he added that 38 Copts is a social movement and that it does not have an alliance...
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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.