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Date of source: Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The Islamists and others with religion high on their political agendas are no better than the liberals when it comes to Egypt's forthcoming parliamentary and presidential elections.
The conservatives who control the (Muslim) Brotherhood are not the majority. They refuse to enter into dialogue with...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 31, 2011
An Egyptian military court sentenced two Coptic Christians to five years in jail for violence and trying to turn a factory into an unlicensed church, judicial sources said late on Sunday.
The two men, also convicted of possessing weapons, were arrested on May 18 after clashes between Christians and...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Weeks after the Muslim Brotherhood declared they will not field a candidate for the presidency, questions arise about how far they will stick to their promise, especially since MB member Abul Fotouh announced to run for President as an independent. Supporter say he is determined to run for...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 24, 2011
After a long break away from official Egyptian TV, the celebrated Muslim TV Evangelist Amr Khaled is back with his own weekly show, hosting “Bukra Ahla” (Tomorrow is Better), a program whose first episodes have sought to raise hopes and encourage viewers to come up with ideas to rebuild post-...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Ashraf Edward, a lawyer representing the Virgin Mary Church in the Ain Shams neighbourhood of Cairo, said the church's legal committee will present a request to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the interior minister and the cabinet that the church be reopened. The church is one of many that...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Al-Jama’a al-Islamiya decided to form a political party to run in the next parliamentary election. “But we won’t field a candidate in the presidential elections,” announced Abdel Akhar Hammad, head of the group’s elections committee.
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Date of source: Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Ignoring a petition from Pope Shenouda III, hundreds of Copts yesterday continued a nine-day sit-in outside the official TV Building near the Cairo Nile, as investigations proved recent clashes in the area were not religiously motivated. More Copts joined the protest asking for perpetrators in...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The elections are swiftly approaching and none of the new parties has yet officially been endorsed.
They might not have a chance of victory in the coming elections. The public and the revolutionaries have been concerned lately, as they did not go through all the trouble of launching a revolution to...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Ahmad el-Tayīb meets on 3 May 2011 in his office in Cairo a Muslim Brotherhood delegation, media sources reported on May 2.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Islamists could play a key role in Egypt's near future. They are well organized and popular.
But the Islamists don't belong to a single, homogeneous group. They constitute of different groups, which are in the process of change, in order to cope with the new reality.
What is totally new is their...
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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.