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Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2004
Arab Christians are trapped between the hammer of terrorists groups and extremists, and the anvil of fanatic governments that skillfully manipulate the issue of religious radicalism for their own benefit [Editor: what governments does Magdi Khalil refer to?], while reinforcing religious, ethnic and...
Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 2004
The state is responsible for allocating and planning cemeteries for all sectors of Egyptians. It does well indeed by planning neighboring cemeteries for both Muslims and Copts. It makes sense that, if the live close to one another, there can be no sensitivity in their being buried near one another...
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 2004
More than once over the past 10 months did I write about on the ridiculous errors committed by civil register personnel and cheekily attributed to ‘computer error’. The problem has recently grown since the government began issuing computerized personal status papers. Quite a few Copts have...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 2004
Last week’s editorial inspired significant feedback from readers and friends, who were eager to comment on the exclusion of Copts from leading administrative positions. Although the question has been one of the most important long-ignored problems in Egypt, it surfaced again when the recent...
Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 2004
There are many examples to prove that Copts have minimal or absent share in the posts of governors, ministers, heads of state banks, state university presidents, as well as leading posts in the military and the police. All in all, it can be said that Copts occupy no more than zero to one per cent...
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2004
An animated session of Watani Forum hosted a round-table discussion on Christians of the Arab World. Participating were a number of Egyptian intellectuals and religious figures, as well as Lebanese Jesuit Brother Danny Younis.
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2004
Education—a vitally important issue on the reform agenda—is one of the most widely-discussed topics. A new vision and a bold policy are required to produce a new generation of Egyptians who can grasp modern-day variables and deal in the latest technology. Our public education is still hostage to...
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2004
Dr. William Wissa is an Egyptian media-man and journalist living in Paris. He heard about the first and second incidents in Al-Kosheh. He felt bewildered due to the contradictions between the international and the local Egyptian media coverage of the Al-Kosheh incidents. He traveled to Al-Kosheh...
Date of source: Sunday, June 12, 2005
In his excellent book, ‘Understanding Jihad’, David Cook of Rice University in the USA dismisses the low-grade debate that has raged since 9/11 over the nature of jihād - whether it is a form of offensive warfare or (more pleasantly) a type of moral self-improvement
Date of source: Sunday, June 12, 2005
Yousuf Sidhum mentions cases of a number of Copts who experienced some troubles with issuing their computerized ID documents when such documents were issued with incorrect information—the applicants being listed as Muslims instead of their actual Christian identity.
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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.