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Date of source: Tuesday, March 31, 2015
A criminal court in Cairo is resuming a closed media trial of deposed President Muhammad Mursī and 10 others accused of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood. All of the accused are facing multiple charges related to leaking state secrets to Qatar. Among the charges, they are accused of deliberately...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 31, 2015
The Egyptian National Council for Human Rights reported that the terrorism that the Arab world has witnessed recently is threatening human rights and reinforcing the need to develop a state and regional based-strategy to combat terrorism. The organization reported that these terrorist organizations...
Date of source: Monday, March 30, 2015
A report prepared by the Office of Public Works in Egypt advised the government and civil society to make greater efforts to improve women’s health, education, and security. The report mentioned that the population in Egypt grew 46% between 1994 and 2014. She added that this increase was equivalent...
Date of source: Monday, March 30, 2015
Commentary: Despite the death sentences and life prison terms levied against Muslim Brotherhood leadership, Attorney General Hishām Barakāt has not passed up the opportunity afforded to him by a new resolution passed by President Sīsī to add the leaders’ names to the government’s terrorism list....
Date of source: Monday, March 30, 2015
Hānī ʿIzzat, a coordinator with the Union of Personal Status Law Victims, said that rule 38 does not violate the precepts of the gospel as some have said. ʿIzzat added that rule 38 utilizes 7 justifications for divorce from the ʿIzzat gospel, saying that rule 38 had been in effect from 1938 until...
Date of source: Monday, March 30, 2015
In a wide reaching interview with al-Watan News, Dr. Mustafa al-Fiqī, said that President Sīsī is well aware of the regional situation in the Middle East and that Egypt is not going down the path of other Middle Eastern countries. He added that the President himself is comfortable in dealing with...
Date of source: Sunday, March 29, 2015
Professor Ahmad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, a previous adviser to former President Muhammad Mursī, said that the decision to add the Muslim Brotherhood’s General Guide Muhammad Badīʿ to Egypt’s terrorism list is the product of the unlawful activities of Prosecutor General Hishām Barakāt. For his part, he...
Date of source: Sunday, March 29, 2015
Egyptian Prosecutor General, Hishām Barakāt, issued a resolution adding Muhammad Badīʿ, the General Guide to the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as his deputy and several other leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood to the official list of terrorists in Egypt. The Prosecutor General said this was the first...
Date of source: Sunday, March 29, 2015
ʿAbd al-Ghafār Shukr, a member of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights, reported that the Interior Ministry is allowing the council to visit the Ābū Zaʿabal prison tomorrow. The council decided to visit the prison in order to assess the human rights situation inside the prison after...
Date of source: Sunday, March 29, 2015
Sāmih ʿAīd, a dissident from the Muslim Brotherhood, warned of the potential for Yemen’s conflict to spread to Egypt. Addressing the conflict, he said that it could not merely be characterized as a Shia-Sunni tribal conflict, explaining that even Egypt could face a similar crisis. He closed his...
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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.