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Date of source: Friday, January 16, 2015
The Salafist Call, also known as al-Da`wa Movement, continues to forbid Muslims to celebrate Christmas with christians in Egypt on either Dec. 25 or Jan. 7, describing such as a glorification of the infidels' religion. The movement also forbade Muslims from co-celebrating Easter in 2014. Meanwhile...
Date of source: Friday, January 16, 2015
Egyptian women have been using a number of hashtags – among them #Idon'tFeelSafeOnTheStreet, #AntiHarassement and #ExposeHarasser – on social networking sites to speak up about the daily sexual harassement they experience. These campaigns are part of an effort to expose harassers and break the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 15, 2015
Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahīm Mahlab decreed the establishment of the High Council for Cyber-Security (HCC) on Dec. 16. The HCC reports directly to the Council of Ministers, and its official goal is to develop a strategy to counter cyber threats, supervise its implementation, and keep that...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 13, 2015
The women in Behēra governorate, west of Cairo, cheered following the announcement of the Egyptian judiciary's ruling to cancel the annual celebration of the birth of the Jewish rabbi known as Abu Hasīra, whose tomb is in the village of Damtu in Behēra governorate.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 27, 2016
The unprecedented inclusion of nine people with disabilities in the Egyptian parliament raises questions as to whether it will bring about legal advantages for such persons in Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, February 5, 2016
"Managing a Facebook page without a license. That was the accusation they used to detain me,” the Egyptian caricaturist Islām Gawīsh told AL Montor in an interview from the Cairo International Book Fair Feb. 2, a few hours after his release. Gawīsh was at the fair to launch volume 2 of “Al-Waraqa...
Date of source: Friday, December 4, 2015
The book “Tahrir: The last 18 days of Mubārak,” published in 2012, revealed what was secretly going on behind the scenes prior to President Husni Mubārak's famed resignation speech on Feb. 11, 2011. Most important among this information is the disassociation of the Egyptian military and...
Date of source: Thursday, December 3, 2015
The Free Egyptians Party (FEP), a liberal party established in the wake of the January 25 Revolution by Egyptian business Najīb Sawīres, came in first place in the first stage of the parliamentary elections held Oct. 17-28, after securing 41 seats. According to preliminary results from the second...
Date of source: Monday, December 28, 2015
Grand Ayatollah Nāsser Makārem Shirāzi wrote an open letter to Shaikh Ahmad al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University, warning him about the dangers of the recent anti-Shi`īt activities at the university.
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.