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Date of source: Monday, October 11, 2010
Lam‘ī says the joint statement issued by Pope Shenouda III and the Grand Shaykh is more like a tranquilizer than medicine and shows that there is neither tension between the leaders of both religions or the people. He added that Al-fitnah al-tā’ifīyah between Muslims and Copts can only be cured by...
Date of source: Monday, October 11, 2010
Labīb says that there is no denying the media’s contribution to current sectarian tension. He then goes on to use an article issued by al-Fajr newspaper as an example, claiming it to be the worst of them all. The article quotes Shaykh Amīn ‘Āmir who reveals how easy it is to document a family's...
Date of source: Monday, October 11, 2010
In a statement set to be released on Monday, the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate requests that laws be issued against discrimination, in support of the building of all places of worship alike, the criminalization of sectarian preaching in press, the removal of the “Religion” column in national ID...
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 2010
A large number of members of the Al-Jamāliyyah and Manshiyyat Nāsir Electoral College expressed their intentions to replace their current representatives. Candidates include two women (one of whom is a Copt and is up against three Coptic men for the same seat), two other Coptic men (one of whom...
Date of source: Saturday, October 9, 2010
Friction between nationals of the diocese of Samallūt and their Bishop continues as Bishop Baphnotius refuses to respond to demonstrations held outside the diocese. The demonstrators refuse the new Priest appointed to be in charge of documenting marriages, and demand they have their Parish’s...
Date of source: Saturday, October 9, 2010
Head of The National Election Monitoring Alliance, Hafez Abū Sicdah, said that they have assigned one hundred and twenty organizations specialized in different areas to monitor different aspects of the upcoming parliamentary elections. He added that districts with Coptic candidates, ministers, and...
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 2010
Following a joint statement against Al-fitnah al-tā’ifīyah, Pope Shenouda III placed a ban on protesting inside the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in al-‘Abbāsiyyah and all Egytpian churches. The statement is believed to be aroused by President Muhammad Husnī Mubārak’s speech in which he warned against...
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 2010
The author of this article claims that Egypt must find a way out of the atmosphere created by the current “conversations of the deaf” between the simple man on the street and the extremist elitist, lest Egypt "burn up in flames." We must not let the voices of reason get lost amongst the loud, yet...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Official spokesperson for the Azhar, Rifā<sup>c</sup>ah Al-Tahtāwī, said that the Grand Shaykh was unable to meet with the Iranian Prime Minister Hamīd Bagha’ī due to schedule conflicts as Bagha’ī visited Luxor on Monday before leaving for Iran the next day and Al-Tayyeb had to give his...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 29, 2010
This article outlines some of the recent discussions concerning the Muslim Brotherhood and the Coptic Christian 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.