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Date of source: Saturday, May 22, 1999 to Friday, May 28, 1999
In Alexandria, Mohammed Ibrahim Mahfouz, an ex-chairman of an Alexandria maritime company and the holder of a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy, claims to be God and the prophet Mohammed. He says people should pray towards him, and that the Hajj can be made at his apartment instead of going to Makkah...
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 1999 to Friday, May 21, 1999
The governor of Al-Minya governorate talks to Rose El-Youssef magazine about the current state of communal relations between Muslims and Copts, as well as fundamentalism and fanaticism in the governorate.
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 1999 to Friday, May 21, 1999
Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, Sheikh of Al-Azhar, met with Daniel Kurtzer, the US Ambassador to Egypt. They discussed the Kosovo crisis and Tantawi thanked the ambassador for the US efforts for the rights of the Kosovars. They also discussed the Palestinian issue. During the meeting the ambassador...
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 1999 to Friday, May 21, 1999
The polemic continues as regards the issue of the Prayer for the Absentee. According to Sayyed Tantawi, the Sheikh Al-Azhar, there is no need for a prayer for the martyrs who are absent. However this issue has provoked many of the Sheikh’s opponents who are accusing him of mixing politics with...
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 1999 to Friday, May 21, 1999
Dr. Abd Al-Rahim Shehata, Governor of Cairo, and his deputy explain why he dissolved the Society of Al-Azhar Scholars’ Front. Meanwhile Dr. Yehia Isma’il, President of the Society of Al-Azhar Scholars’ Front insists that they are the first to defend the Al-Azhar, and that there are no differences...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 1999 to Friday, May 14, 1999
Milad Sobhi, founder of the new denomination variously referred to as the ’Testament Church’, ’Coptic Testament Church’ or ’Divorcee’s church’ responds to an article by Dr. Girgis Kamel Youssef which attacked his claim that the "law of Moses is an Egyptian law." Here he gives his ’proofs’ for his...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 1999 to Friday, May 14, 1999
An anonymous Coptic Christian writes on the problem of divorced Copts. He cites statements by two legal counselors who say that the courts should decide the matter of permissions to remarry for divorced Coptic Orthodox Christians, and says that prohibition of permission of their remarriage is a...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 1999 to Friday, May 14, 1999
There are in the history of Egyptian women tens of examples that said, still say and insist that "religion is for God, the country for all." Four Egyptian Christian women are profiled here as examples to show that Coptic Christian women are patriotic Egyptians.
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 1999 to Friday, May 14, 1999
A Muslim responds to a recent article by a Christian which was entitled: "Fanaticism without justification."
Date of source: Saturday, May 1, 1999
A response to Milad Sobhi’s claims that the law of the Old Testament is an Egyptian law and it is not true that it is a Jewish law as well as some of his other claims.
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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.