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Date of source: Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Divorce has become a thorny issue for Copts. The courts allow it, while churches do not and refrain from granting remarriage permissions. Christian women resort to Khul c and some call for the civil marriage to escape the stranglehold of the religious one.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2005
The crisis of Wafā’ Costantine has opened the door to discuss many issues concerning Copts, their status in society and their relationship with both the state and the Church. The crisis of Costantine has also shed light on the problem of Coptic divorce, which has become chronic for the last thirty...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 12, 2000
Gihan Mohammed Abd El-Lateef Al-Halafawi is the first woman to be chosen by the Muslim Brotherhood to represent them in the coming elections for the People’s Assembly. This article features and interview with her.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 22, 2000
The Virgin Mary church in Zeitoun is a relatively small building that is surrounded by a small garden in which the Virgin tree is located. This church had only a very small congregation, but after the Virgin Mary appeared everything changed and thousands of visitors started to come to the church...
Date of source: Monday, June 26, 2000
Since issuing the non-violence initiative, the Gama’at Al-Islamya is living in a state of disputes and division between two groups. The first group, lead by Mustafa Hamza, was the one behind issuing the non-violence initiative, in March of last year. The other group, headed by Rifai’ Taha,...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 23, 2000
In an editorial of Sabah Al-Kheir, the author describes the decision to transfer the case of the Labor Party to the Socialist Prosecutor and the freezing of its bi-weekly publication, as an outcome of the party’s previous activities and the recent decisions of its leaders.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 23, 2000
Tarek Radwan writes about the past three unsuccessful attempts to "overthrow" the party’s leader and form a new administration. Then he recounts the three interviews he conducted with key personnel in the party, namely Hamdi Ahmed, Ahmed Idris, and Ahmed Ibrahim Shoukry.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 to Monday, May 29, 2000
Mohammed El-Rifa’i strongly criticized the statement of the Islamic Research Institute and described it as homicide against all intellectuals in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 9, 2000
The article denounces the attacks on this literary work and suggest that another beneficiary party with a vested interest is involved. They further suggest that it looks like life having been freed from most worries and nothing remains but battling over literary works and comb them for offensive...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 9, 2000
Haider is astonished by the critical attack in Egypt against his work" Banquet for the Seaweed". He says that characters in literary works are free to think as they wish, even to adopt opposing thoughts.
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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.