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Date of source: Monday, September 27, 2010
The author is beginning to believe the rumors about there being a force deliberately fanning the fitnah tā’ifīyah to keep people too busy to notice things like the inflation and parliamentary elections. Who are these people who are so concerned by Kāmīliyā Shihātah to the extent of them protesting...
Date of source: Monday, September 27, 2010
The Azhar’s statement, issued in response to Bishop Bīshūy’s offensive comments on Islam, received mixed reactions from leading Islamic figures. While some thought it was fair, others thought it should have adopted a more positive stance. Dr. Tāriq al-Bishrī even went so far as to request that the...
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Members of the Islamic Research Academy at the Azhar are divided on how to deal with Bishop Bīshūy’s statements attacking Egyptian Muslims and the Qur'ān. One group thinks President Husnī Mubārak should interfere personally and demand Pope Shenouda III take action against Bīshūy. Another group said...
Date of source: Saturday, September 25, 2010
Sāmih says that sectarian tension has been on the rise since last July when Kāmīliyā Shihātah first went missing. It has reached a level that requires the government’s interference, he says, but it seems like the government is oblivious of what is going on with the people. Sāmih says that the...
Date of source: Friday, September 24, 2010
A protest to take place in Alexandria after next Friday's prayers is being organized by a Salafī group. The group will be protesting the alleged detention of Kāmīliyā Shihātah, as well as Bishop Bīshūy’s recent comments on Islam. On another note, during his weekly meeting at the ‘Abbāsiyyah...
Date of source: Friday, September 24, 2010
Salafī activists from Cairo and Alexandria plan what they described as a “huge stand” in protest of the alleged detention of Kāmīliyā Shihātah by the church. They demand Kāmīliyā be handed over to the attorney general and for monasteries to be searched for weapons. One of the activists says that...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Final suggestions were handed in last Sunday for Pope Benedict XVI’s approval, marking the end of the Vatican’s research on the condition of Christians in the Middle East. It was suggested that Christians be more encouraged to visit holy places and follow the footsteps of prophets such as Moses in...
Date of source: Saturday, October 23, 2010
In an interview with Al-Shurūq, head of the Hand-in-Hand for Egypt foundation, Michael Munīr, said that Dr. Muhammad al-Barad‘ī has lost the trust of Copts by cooperating with the Muslim Brotherhood and failing to clearly announce his intentions regarding the second article in the Egyptian...
Date of source: Friday, October 22, 2010
According to a Ministry of Endowments representative ‘Abd al-Ra‘ūf al-Maghrabī, eleven imams from Cairo’s largest mosques will deliver speeches at eleven different mosques in Minya for Friday's prayers. He says that the imams will be talking about the importance of national unity as part of a...
Date of source: Friday, October 22, 2010
The People's Democratic Movement for Change created a blacklist of National Democratic Party representatives, hoping they wouldn’t be re-elected this year. They announced in an official statement that they intend to expose those on the blacklist. The movement went to the extent of protesting...
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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.