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Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2011
In an interview with Wall Street Journal, Egyptian diplomat Butrūs Butrūs Ghālī said that Copts are practicing their doctrine and they hold leadership positions, adding that this is what is required to reinforce a spirit of citizenship.
Ghālī calls for establishing a special unit in the public...
Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2011
The Samallūt train shooting was criminal rather than sectarian in nature, according to General Hāmid Rāshid, the Assistant Minister of Interior for Legal Affairs.
Al-Misrī al-Yawm reports that Hāmid made his comments at a joint meeting of several Egyptian parliamentary committees convened to...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2011
Ahmad Kamāl 'Abū al-Majd says that the unified law for building places of worship must be passed. He also supports a law to combat discrimination based on origin, gender, or religion.
'Abū al-Majd alleges that the only one who has an interest in creating division in Egypt is the one who want to get...
Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2011
The chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee at the Shūrá [Consultative] Council says that the government is about to announce “a sovereign decision” regulating the building of churches, according to al-Shurūq al-Jadīd on Sunday.
Dr. Mustafá al-Fiqī said the decision would “satisfy God and the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 20, 2011
Nearly three weeks after the attack, AWR's Hānī Hamdī gives a roundup of the Thursday stories in Egyptian newspapers dealing with the explosion at the Church of the Two Saints in Alexandria, Egypt...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Egyptian Minister of Endowments says that a new law regulating the building of churches is currently under study and will be drafted in the coming legislative period...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Family Home initiative is officially underway, according to al-Misrī al-Yawm.
The paper reports that the Egypt Peace Society has convened its first conference related to the initiative, which aims to create a Muslim-Christian body to serve as a mouthpiece for both the Azhar and the Church.
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Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2010
President Husnī Mubarāk issued a Republican decree appointing ten members in the Parliament, seven out of ten are Copts for the first time during his ruling; and one woman.
Copts negative reactions about appointing the Copt Jamāl 'As'ad 'Abd al-Malāk was obvious on internet discussions.
Worth...
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2011
Last Tuesday, an off-duty Egyptian police officer allegedly shot six Coptic Christians who were travelling on a train in Samallūt, a small town in the southern Egyptian province of Minya. An elderly man died in the attack.
While some government officials have been quoted in various reports as...
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2011
Monday’s Egyptian newspapers once again focused heavily on the Naj‘ Hammādī incidents of 2010...
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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.