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Date of source: Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Coptic children continue to be kidnapped in Al-Minya Governorate. Barely a week has passed since the last kidnapping and the township of Mallawī has already witnessed the kidnapping of another Coptic child. Security director of al-Minya, Ahmad Sulaymān, received a notification of the kidnapping of...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2013
.This comes at a time in which the Governorate of Minya in particular, has witnessed numerous cases of disappearing Coptic girls. 48 hours before the disappearance of Nadīyah Khalīl, an officer at the Mallawī police station received a complaint from 26-years-old Yūsuf ‘Atā Faraj that his 20-years-...
Date of source: Sunday, March 3, 2013
A Jihadist group has issued a statement threatening attacks on churches, political liberals and the Egyptian Army. In an internet statement a masked spokesperson, who identified himself as the leader of the group al-Takfīr wal-Hijrah for Egypt, threatened to use car bombs and booby traps to attack...
Date of source: Monday, February 25, 2013
Shaykh Abū Islām has attempted to distance himself from his inflammatory comments about Coptic women. However, the prosecution sent the CDs, provided by Najīb Jubrā’īl, the lawyer, that prove Abū Islām's incitement of a fitnah and disturbance of national unity, to be transcribed by the Ministry of...
Date of source: Sunday, February 24, 2013
In an interview with al-Tahrīr, Tāriq al-Zumur speaks about the current situation in Egypt. al-Zumur spent nearly 30 years in prison for taking part in the assassination of former Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat in 1981. al-Zumur is a famous leader of the al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyyah and founder of...
Date of source: Saturday, February 23, 2013
Ibrāhīm ‘Isá, for his part, wrote an opinion piece in al-Tahrīr criticizing Mursī’s decision to have the parliament elections during Coptic Easter. He wrote: “This is the best decision Mursī took since he became the President! He decided to have the Parliament elections at the end of April, very...
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2013
Barely three days have passed since the disappearance of two Coptic female students from one of the villages in Dayr Mawwās, in the South of Minya. The girls’ fathers have accused two Muslim men of being behind the disappearance (Muhamad al-Zahrāwī, al-Tahrīr, Feb. 18, p. 16). Read original text in...
Date of source: Friday, February 15, 2013
The spokesman of Google in Egypt said that the company is aware of the judiciary decision to ban YouTube in Egypt. He added to the American network, CNN, that the company is looking into the matter. He also said that the video that angered the Muslim community did not violate Google's user...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Dozens of Copts assembled in Samallūt Township outside of the office building of al-Minya Governorate, demonstrating against the state of lawlessness, thuggery, and kidnapping spreading in the Governorate, demanding the return of security in the streets.
Midhat Loweis Jirjis [a Copt] said that a...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
On Wednesday, January 30, Associated Press interviewed Pope Tawadros during which the Pope was criticised for scathing the new Egyptian Constitution (Ahmad al-Smāni, Al-Tahrīr, Feb. 6, p. 3). Read original text in Arabic
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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.