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Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
Coptic lawyers
have entered as a party in the political game in the Egyptian Bar Association elections. Despite the failure of all Coptic
candidates in the recent elections, the role played by Coptic lawyers was undeniable, forming another trump card in the face
of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Date of source: Sunday, April 3, 2005
There is need to search for a suitable Coptic candidate to compete with the incumbent Egyptian president, not because it was a right for the Copts guaranteed by the constitution, but because the key objective of the competition is to expand the democratic practices to be genuine in the future.
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
The constitution, which provides that there is no discrimination among citizens on basis of religion, sex or color, holds that Islamic sharī‘a is the only source of legislation; while the fiqh [Muslim jurisprudence] rule goes that no non-Muslim would be allowed to rule Muslims.
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
President Husnī Mubārak responded to this call by amending the article 76 of the constitution to allow for multi-candidate presidential elections. However, in order to proceed with the elections in an incorrupt fashion, the Egyptian press must regain its freedom, which it had lost ever since the...
Date of source: Monday, March 21, 2005
In accordance with the Euro-American vision, the Arab regimes now enjoy strong relations with the United States and Europe, are no longer fit to go on. The political purposes go beyond an alliance to reach absolute satellite status. These Western objectives need some kind of a flagrant intervention...
Date of source: Monday, March 7, 2005
A line has to be drawn between the issue of church reform and the Coptic file with all social, cultural and political problems that involves.
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2005
Judge Tāriq al-Bishrī wrote a number of articles on the issue of Coptic-Muslim relations in different newspapers and magazines including: al-Usbouc, Afāq ‘Arabīya and Al-Ahrām al-‘Arabī. In my article, I will comment on some points that Judge al-Bishrī raised previously.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 23, 2005
The religious discourse needs to be rejuvenated to regain its social and institutional rank and to disprove claims of the West that the prevailing discourse promotes terrorism. The reason that religious discourse is lagging is the lack of Islamic heralds and their concentration on minorities, which...
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2005
Michael Munīr, who was born in al-Minyā in 1968, emigrated to the US in 1990, chooses his words carefully and loves exaggerative statements. His statements give the impression that Egypt is ruled by a gang that slaughters, kidnaps, and steals from Copts. His statements also imply that Egypt needs...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2005
It is terrible how the Bar Association has become a battlefield for sectarian strife between Coptic and Muslim lawyers.
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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.