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Date of source: Monday, February 27, 2012
The People’s Assembly Religious Committee under Shaykh Sayyīd ‘Askar on Sunday (February 26) recommended that one of the lawmakers in the committee would propose a draft law to punish any person offending Islam. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, Feb. 27, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Wednesday, December 7, 2011
In an opinion article by the author 'Imād al-Dīn Husayn, he related a story about the mother of one of his Christian friends who voted for the Egyptian Bloc (list) and Muslim liberals (individuals) in Alexandria in the first round of the People's Assembly elections.
In the runoff, this lady called...
Date of source: Friday, December 2, 2011
The Supreme State Security Prosecution has renewed the custody of 8 suspects over the “Maspero incidents” [during which Christian demonstrators were attacked outside the Egyptian television building in the district of Maspero in Cairo] for 15 days pending investigation. The Maspero incidents left...
Date of source: Thursday, February 23, 2012
Political activist Michael Meunier, the leader of Al-Haya Party, denied all prosecution charges of involvement in the October 9 incidents outside the state radio & TV building in the area of Maspero that left 24 people dead and 350 others wounded. [Hātim al-Jahmī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Feb. 23, p...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Egypt's Copts coalition is organizing protests Tuesday outside the Supreme Court to reject investigations with Coptic activist and leader of the al-Haya Party, over charges that he was involved in the October 9, 2011 incidents outside the state radio and TV building in the area of Maspero that left...
Date of source: Saturday, December 3, 2011
Mustafá al-Nuwayhī, candidate of al-Wafd Party, has said there is no division between Copts and Muslims in Egyptian society. He added that the gunshots of the Ministry of Interior during the revolution [Reviewer: a reference to police firing on demonstrators] did not separate them, adding that...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
Rānyā Khalīl Ibrāhīm, the heroine of yet another sectarian trouble sparked recently in Mīt Bashār village, Minyā al-Qamh town, al-Sharqia governorate, said that she was not kidnapped and that she left her father’s home with her own free will. [‘Ādil al-Shā’ir, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Feb. 19, p. 6]...
Date of source: Sunday, December 4, 2011
In the election for the workers' seat and the professional' seat in the fourth constituency of Asyūt governorate, the Copts and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) allied against the candidates of al-Jamā'ā al-Islāmiyyah.
The Coptic Church spread a statement encouraging it's followers to vote for the...
Date of source: Saturday, December 3, 2011
The Coptic candidate Mīrvat Anwar, who holds the second rank in the list of Hizb al-Ahrār (Party of the Free) in Aswan governorate, stated that more Muslim than Christian voters approved her candidacy. She pointed out that the church's stance towards the candidates is clear, namely it is spiritual...
Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2012
The Maspero Youth Union (MYU) held the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and police "entirely responsible" for any loss of life, property or that Copts besieged inside a church in the village of Mīt Bashār in al-Zaqāzīq, al-Sharqia governorate, or the Muslims trying to protect the church...
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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.